Ed Balls, the children's secretary, was partly to blame for last year's Sats fiasco, according to a report by MPs on the children, schools and families select committee. Barry Sheerman, who chairs the committee, says government interference caused confusion in the body responsible for regulating the exam system.
Although Labour is widely expected to lose today's Norwich North byelection, chief leader writer Julian Glover says the result is hard to predict.
Hamid Karzai has refused to take part in tonight's televised debate between candidates in next month's Afghan presidential election. As Jon Boone reports from Kabul, Karzai's support is slipping away, to the consternation of western diplomats.
Topless sunbathing is in decline in its spiritual home, France. Our Paris correspondent Angelique Chrisafis says younger Frenchwomen don't share the traditional view of going topless as being synonymous with feminism and rebellion.
Martin Wainwright reports from a stately home in Yorkshire, where a cache of rare gramophone records was discovered by a keen-eyed visitor.
