In 2008, women's vital role in the British armed forces is rarely questioned.

Hundreds of cab drivers have brought parts of Liverpool city centre to a halt in protest at taxis from outside the area which work in the city.

A 25-year-old man has died and a woman, 22, has been injured in a crash in North Lanarkshire.

Aid workers from the charity Shelterbox have begun handing out aid boxes to survivors of the Chinese earthquake.

Researchers are to travel on passenger and cargo flights to see if cabin air contamination is making travellers and pilots ill.

Armed police have detained two men in an operation linked to an explosion in a restaurant in Exeter.

The lake is swelling next to Beichuan, one of the towns hit hardest by the earthquake. On Tuesday water levels were only 26m below the lowest part of the debris barrier, and were still rising.

The family of an Army cadet who died on a training exercise broke down in tears when a fatal accident inquiry was told of the confused search for the girl.

When Tilly Casson returned to work after treatment for breast cancer she was constantly fatigued.