Spider-Man actress Kirsten Dunst has revealed she checked into rehab earlier this year to be treated for depression. The 26-year-old spent time at the Cirque Lodge Treatment Center, in Utah, in February.

A man has been charged over an attack on two 19-year-old men near an east London Underground station. One of the men suffered a stab wound to the abdomen and was found collapsed at East Ham Tube station on Sunday night.

Dramatic evidence of the break-up of the Arctic ice-cap has emerged from research during an expedition by the Canadian military.

The families of five British men being held hostage in Iraq for a year have made a joint appeal for their release. The civilian contractors were kidnapped by armed militants at the Iraqi Ministry of Finance in Baghdad.

The family of a girl killed by a police car have called on people to wait for the outcome of an inquiry into the death and "not spread rumours". Hayley Adamson, 16, was struck as she crossed Newcastle's Denton Road, late on Monday night.

They're clunky, dirty and can't access the internet, yet every year thousands of people buy typewriters when they could probably afford a computer. Why? When asked how he writes, Frederick Forsyth has a simple answer. "With a typewriter."

Police are trying to trace a 15-year-old girl from Warwickshire who is believed to have gone missing with a 24-year-old man.

BBC news website readers in Lebanon assess the prospects for peace after their parliament's election of a new president on Sunday.