The 2010 Great North Swim is cancelled after toxic algae is found in Windermere.

Usain Bolt tells the BBC's Leon Mann how he's coping with the intense media attention prompted by his book launch.

HSBC may quit its London headquarters if the UK government decides to break up big banks, a senior executive says.

A four-year-old boy who was allegedly abducted by his foster parents in Lincolnshire is found safe and well by police.

President Barack Obama's daughter, Malia, is now 12 years old and 5ft 9in (1.75m). But what's it like to be a young girl who's taller than the rest?

A man abused as a child by the McDermott brothers in Donagh, County Fermanagh, says their victims are being forgotten about.

Detectives are given more time to question the parents of so-called "honour killing" victim Shafilea Ahmed.

TV comedienne Jennifer Saunders is to write the story for musical Viva Forever - based on the songs of the Spice Girls.

Extra buses, escorted bike rides and more river boat journeys will be laid on to help people get to work during next week's Tube strike.

Engineers behind a £42m wave energy scheme in Cornwall plan to lower a giant electrical socket on to the sea bed later.

Radical plans to merge two senior posts at a council and a local health board (LHB) are backed by councillors.

A teenage holidaymaker is in hospital after plunging 25 feet from a cliff in north Cornwall.

A World War II veteran receives France's highest decoration for bravery, 66 years after liberating a town there.

The first specialist college for young people with Asperger syndrome in Wales opens its doors.

Commander Andy Coles shows BBC News around the control room of the Royal Navy's new attack submarine and talks about life on board.

A controversial lottery system for secondary school places in Brighton failed in one of its key aims, to give poorer children equal access to top schools, academics say.

Papers discuss the existence of God

Inside the Royal Navy's newest, most powerful attack submarine

Britain's Andy Murray takes on Dustin Brown of Jamaica in the second round of the US Open, with the threat of Hurricane Earl hanging over New York.

A health watchdog reports a marked improvement in 999 response times at Yorkshire Ambulance Service.