On the first edition of our new-look daily news podcast, we talk to Rev Giles Fraser, a member of the General Synod of the Church of England, which meets today. Archbishop Rowan Williams will have to defuse the row over his Sharia law comments, he says.
We hear from our US correspondent about the weekend's election boosts for Barack Obama. And we're in Alice Springs, Australia, for an exclusive report from Barbara MacMahon on the "stolen generation" of Aboriginals who were removed from their families as children and placed with white parents. The Australian premier, Kevin Rudd, is to make a formal apology this week.
Robert Booth reports from the Alps on a worrying rise in the number of ski and snowboarding deaths. And our technology editor, Charles Arthur, gets his children to road-test a new cheap laptop.
