Dreams of al-Qaeda leader Osama Bin Laden are not uncommon, discovers Pejk Malinovski.

Two more US toy firms recall Chinese-made toys, saying they include paint with dangerous levels of lead.

Seal experts in Cornwall are called in to remove a seal rarely seen in the county from a slipway.

Strong winds which felled trees and damaged property in County Antrim villages were not as uncommon as one might think, a meteorologist has said.

Weblog Watch looks at cricket bloggers - and finds them uncommonly pleasant bunch.

In a series of articles about young people in the Middle East, Heather Sharp explores relationships in Cairo where sex outside wedlock is a social no-no - but not necessarily uncommon.

The BBC's Elizabeth Blunt writes that slum clearances as being carried out in Zimbabwe are not uncommon in Africa.

People in NI believe that crime is not common in their area and that they are unlikely to be victims of crime, according to a survey.

This was always going to be one of those occasions when the House of Commons was united as one - and so it was.

The phenomenon women failing to realise they are going to give birth until the later stages of pregnancy may not be that rare.

The idea that workers commonly take Mondays and Fridays off as sick leave to extend their weekends does not hold true, researchers say.

Lord Archer's extra-marital infidelities and requests for alibis to cover his tracks were not uncommon, the Old Bailey hears.

Bugging devices are not uncommon, says defence expert Colonel Mike Dewar.

The gas explosion which killed 77 people in a coal-mine in north-eastern China is the latest in a series of similar incidents.