The home secretary, Jacqui Smith, today announces a raft of measures to tackle antisocial behaviour. Her speech comes as the government reveals that antisocial behaviour orders (asbos) have had only limited success. Our home affairs editor, Alan Travis, says Gordon Brown's government is likely to shift emphasis away from asbos, which were beloved of Tony Blair.
The Scottish first minister, Alex Salmond, tells our Scotland correspondent Severin Carrell that he welcomes the Scottish Labour leader Wendy Alexander's support for a referendum on Scottish independence.
After Barack Obama's strong showing in this week's primary elections, the Guardian America editor, Michael Tomasky, considers how long Hillary Clinton can continue her campaign for the Democratic presidential ticket.
The human rights lawyer Clive Stafford-Smith gives his response to the US supreme court's rejection of a legal bid to outlaw lethal injections. And we discuss the likely fate of Guantánamo Bay and CIA rendition under a new US president.
Luke Harding reports from Moscow, where Dmitry Medvedev has been sworn in as Russia's third post-Soviet president … with Vladimir Putin at his side.
And Steven Morris reports from Lyme Regis, where a major landslide has devastated the cliffs, a World Heritage Site because of its large concentration of fossils.
