The downfall of a man who lived a life of fast cars and flashy suits comes to an end as he is found guilty of supplying drugs.

A raid that caught nearly 400 illegal immigrants in a meat packing plant has put a small town at the centre of one of America's most divisive issues.

Humans are using too much nitrogen, and leaving so much of it that the natural world is struggling to cope.

Italian airline Alitalia is finding that years of inertia has left it weakened, a takeover target, and fighting to for its life.

Hillary Clinton said she was guilty of 'misspeaking' when she incorrectly recalled her trip to Bosnia in 1996. What did she mean?

Footage of pandas mating fails to excite the notoriously unwilling breeders at a Chinese research base.

As the UN debates how to break the web of human trafficking, the BBC's Stephanie Holmes explores one of the most modern forms of exploitation.

U2 star Bono and British modern artist Damien Hirst have joined forces to auction off contemporary art to raise money for Aids relief in Africa.

Police in Ghana arrest four accused of trafficking children to work in fishing communities.

The damage caused by heart disease may make the organ cope better with the dangers of surgery, say researchers.

Fire crews untangle a parachutist who drifted off course and became stuck in a tree in South Cumbria.

Shilpa Shetty and Danielle Lloyd embrace on the red carpet at the premiere of Shetty's new film.

Science fiction writer Alastair Reynolds is in a prime position to look dispassionately at the present and project into the future, having spent 12 years as an astronomer with the European Space Agency.

Experts excavate the site of a house on Ben Lomond which may have belonged to legend Rob Roy MacGregor.

Mobile operators and phone makers bet on convergence - the coming together of mobile phones, television and music players - but does it work?

The discovery that a cloning superstar's research was fraudulent leaves as lasting impression upon science.

Increasingly Americans are turning to the net for news about key political events, a study shows.

Lord Stevens will tell the FA it must wait to discover which three clubs breached transfer rules.

Firefighters help rescue a bird of prey from the roof of a house in Lancashire.

Sir Robin Knox-Johnston dives into freezing waters to untangle his boat in the Five Oceans Race.