McCain's suprise pick is a high risk but should ultimately reshape the campaign narrative

Liveblogging the Obama acceptance speech

As Oxford prepares to consider applicants' postcodes, we ask if Oxford will ever be able to change its image.

An open-back military truck pulls up. At first the Figaro and the Sunday Times think the people onboard are refugees. A short brown man in a t-shirt jumps off. "Who are you, what you want?" He's shouting.

What do international alliances actually mean for big and small countries?

There are four of us in the car. The road ahead is empty and the cameraman is trying to hide his equipment as we draw up at the first checkpoint. "You...tell them you're my brother, that we are a family going to see our aunt in Gori.

Students applying to Oxford will now have their postcode taken into account as admissions tutors consider which applicants to interview.

Mirian wears ‘90s Reebok trainers, black badly-cut jeans and a lumberjack shirt of the worst imaginable quality. He is holding a rubbish sack filled with a few books, a family-photo album, more ugly clothes and a lock of his girlfriend's hair wrapped in a green elastic band.

Our correspondent journeys out of Turkey and into Georgia, nearing the recent zone of conflict between Russian and Georgian forces.

Beirut - Around ‘Lunchtime.' I need an Internet Connection, a number I have to call is waiting in my inbox. The Armenian Taxi driver coughs violently. I'm indifferent, he's driven me way out of where I wanted to go, right into a dilapidated and run-down district that slides steeply down a hill...

What does America's reaction to Russian operations inside Georgia mean for the future of the land of the free?

"What do you want to eat? The people should be coming...In an hour. We should probably eat before the party." ...

Oxford University has released a statement confirming that the Iranian Interior Minister has never received a degree from Oxford.

We spoke to the people involved in the four-year conservation of the Sheldonian's magnificent painted ceiling.