The Chinese government has stepped back from plans to introduce censorship software in new computers – just hours before the "Green Dam" was supposed to begin. Jonathan Watts reports from Beijing.
Meanwhile technology correspondent, Bobbie Johnson, looks at efforts in America to stop tech companies cooperating with authoritatian regimes.
In the UK, the new home secretary, Alan Johnson, has scrapped plans to intoduce a trial scheme that would make it compulsory for airport staff to carry identity cards. But our home affairs editor, Alan Travis, says ID cards will probably go ahead even under a Conservative government.
Severin Carrell reports from the Northumberland coast on a National Trust study of puffins that scientists hope will help explain a rapid decline in the number of seabirds.
From today, casinos will be banned in most of Russia. Moscow correspondent Luke Harding looks at the reasons for the prohibition, and the likelihood of it being strictly imposed.
Hollywood actor John Malkovich's latest role is as an Austrian serial killer in a Viennese theatrical production. He tells Kate Connolly why he's taking on the part.
