As a key advisor to Barack Obama signals that the new president will use his executive powers to scrap George Bush policies on stem cell research and oil and gas drilling, the president of the Royal Society, Martin Rees, tells our science correspondent James Randerson of his hopes for an Obama presidency. There is more on this in our Science Weekly podcast.
Education editor Polly Curtis assesses Tory claims that Labour is failing children in poorer areas, which are seeing a rise in the number of nurseries failing Ofsted reports.
As Russia mourns 20 sailors killed in an accident on a nuclear submarine, Tom Parfitt reports from Moscow on the political repercussions.
The new president of the Maldives has told our correspondent Randeep Ramesh that his government is to look for a new homeland as a fallback in case rising sea levels cause his people's 1,200 islands and coral atolls to disappear.
And Martin Wainwright reports from the Lake District on the effect on the landscape of vanishing hill farms.
