The BBC's Soutik Biswas on how India is being affected by the piracy in the Gulf of Aden.

An 11-year-old girl left disabled after she was starved of oxygen at birth is awarded compensation from a hospital trust.

A US patient left in a coma-like state after a road accident recovered the ability to speak after repeated exposure to a magnetic field.

Suicide bombings in Algeria raise fresh doubts about the country's ability to deal with a re-branded Islamist insurgency, writes the BBC's Aidan Lewis.

Three drugs gang members are jailed for a total of 23 years for a punishment beating which went too far.

Three Vietnamese men are convicted of the manslaughter of a fellow immigrant beaten and dumped at a hospital.

A jury retires to consider its verdict in the murder of a Vietnamese man dumped at a hospital.

A spokesman claiming to represent all the main insurgent groups in Thailand announces a unilateral ceasefire.

A student who died after driving into two trees had been texting her friend minutes before, an inquest hears

Eoin Morgan hits a whirlwind maiden century for Middlesex to help the county side to 311-5 against tourists South Africa.

An RAF technician admits shaking his eight-month-old daughter to death at their home in Moray.

Nightclub staff are given NHS guidance on when to summon help for someone who may have taken drugs.

The BBC News website looks at five prisoners held at Guantanamo Bay facing charges relating to the 9/11 attacks.

A father is jailed for four-and-a-half-years after he admits shaking his 10-week-old baby daughter to death.

Fans who say Amy Winehouse has a duty to her talent are twisting the argument - the duty of the greatly talented is to life itself, because what they do is life affirming, says Clive James.

Sussex progress to 318-5 after two days against Surrey at Hove.

A man was tortured by a drug gang and a "hired heavy" at houses in Newport and London, a murder trial hears.

Bone marrow transplants can attack cancer in patients unresponsive to conventional treatment.

A mother warns parents not to let their guard down and remain vigilant to the signs and symptoms of meningitis.

A court hears how a woman from south west Scotland shook a baby girl so hard she almost died.