Legal affairs correspondent Afua Hirsch explains why the attorney general, Baroness Scotland, is considering asking the courts to get tough with high-profile direct-action protests. The move follows the decision in September by a jury at Maidstone crown court to clear six Greenpeace activists of criminal damage to Kingsnorth coal-fired power station. The jury accepted the protesters' argument that they intended to protect property from global warming.
Yesterday's unemployment statistics revealed that there are now more than a million people claiming jobless benefits. Alexandra Topping speaks to some of those made redundant in recent months.
Gordon Brown has confirmed that UK troops are to be almost completely withdrawn from Iraq. But security editor Richard Norton-Taylor says Britain will almost certainly have to send more service personnel to Afghanistan.
Russia is to give 10 MiG-29 fighter jets to Lebanon. Luke Harding, our Moscow correspondent, assesses Moscow's interests in the region.
And Strictly Come Dancing judge and choreographer Arlene Phillips talks to G2's Hannah Pool in our weekly celebrity slot.
