An independent inquiry has found "shocking" failures in care as Mid Staffordshire NHS trust focused on hitting government targets. Health editor, Sarah Boseley, has the details.
A report commissioned by the Home Office recommends that lads' magazines such as Zoo and Nuts should go on the top shelf, and age restrictions should be placed on their purchase. Natasha Walter, author of Living Dolls: The Return of Sexism, gives her view of the sexualisation of children.
The foreign ministers of India and Pakistan have resumed talks on the disputed territory of Kashmir for the first time since the terror attacks on Mumbai in November 2008. Jason Burke reports from New Delhi.
The US ambassador, Louis Susman, welcomes publication of plans for a new American embassy in Britain, on the banks of the Thames in Battersea. Guardian architecture critic Jonathan Glancey gives his approval.
