A UN report condemns Britain for its role in the American policy of secretly moving terror suspects around foreign jails, where many were allegedly tortured. Security editor Richard Norton Taylor says the UK government is under increasing pressure to launch an independent inquiry.
A policeman is killed in Northern Ireland, the first in 10 years. Two soldiers were murdered by Real IRA terrorists at Massereene Barracks in Antrim on Saturday. During a visit to the barracks, Gordon Brown insisted that the attacks – in which two civilians delivering pizzas were seriously injured – had not shaken the Northern Ireland peace process. Ireland correspondent Henry McDonald examines whether the prime minister was correct.
Richard Wilkinson and Kate Pickett, academic epidemiologists at Nottingham and York universities respectively, are authors of The Spirit Level: Why More Equal Societies Almost Always Do Better. They explain why relatively unequal societies such as Britain and the United States are more likely to suffer from a range of problems, including low life expectancy, illiteracy, stress and a high crime rate. Even climate change is less of a challenge for a society with a narrow gap between rich and poor.
Physicist Richard Lindzen from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology delivered one of the keynote speeches at a conference of climate change deniers in New York. He tells the Guardian's Suzanne Goldenberg how it felt being on the wrong side of the consensus.
In India, 714 million people are able to vote in the general election, which takes place over several weeks during April and May. Foreign affairs columnist Simon Tisdall asks whether India's political system can bring the world's largest democracy the stability and security it needs.
