Gordon Brown has told the Commons he made a mistake over defence spending in his evidence to the Chilcot inquiry into the Iraq war. Chief political correspondent Nicholas Watt assesses the damage to the prime minister.
Reporter Helen Pidd looks at Labour's election strategy, which will include a series of intimate meetings with Gordon Brown in voters' front rooms.
Cardinal Sean Brady, the head of the Irish Catholic Church, has said sorry for failing to tell the police in 1975 about a paedophile priest. The cover-up allowed Father Brendan Smyth to continue abusing children for 18 years. Ireland correspondent Henry McDonald says Cardinal Brady may be forced to resign.
Europe's colonisation of the New World is the theme of this year's Edinburgh Festival. The festival's director, Jonathan Mills, told the Guardian's Scotland correspondent Severin Carrell about the highlights.
Ai Weiwei, China's greatest living artist, is doing the Tate Modern's next Turbine Hall installation. He talks to Beijing correspondent Tania Branigan.
A group of writers have ascribed imaginary lives to a collection of 16th and 17th century portraits of people whose identity has been lost in the mists of time. Steven Morris reports from a new exhibition at Montacute House in Somerset.
