Former US president Jimmy Carter tells the Guardian's Jonathan Freedland why he believes Barack Obama should not choose his rival Hillary Clinton as his running mate. Our Washington correspondent Ewen MacAskill outlines the immediate challenges facing Obama as he takes on the Republicans' John McCain in the race for the White House.
The King's Fund publishes a study today into the government's plans to replace local family doctors' surgeries with larger health centres called polyclinics. The thinktank's chief executive Niall Dickson says the benefits to the patient and to the NHS are unclear.
Italian prime minister Silvio Berlusconi has reneged on an election pledge to crack down on illegal immigrants, reports John Hooper from Rome.
Prince Charles is backing a campaign to preserve pre-communist housing in Beijing, reports Robert Booth.
A new CD has been released of recordings made in London by west Africans in the 1920s. It was compiled after a trawl through EMI's archives by Mark Ainley of Honest Jon's records.
