Some of Britain's most senior police officers have broken ranks with their colleagues and the government over 42-day detention. Vikram Dodd has the story.
At least seven people are dead after a man drove a two-tonne truck into a crowd on a Tokyo street before stabbing 17 people in three minutes. Justin McCurry says the man has given no motive for the attack other than he wanted to kill strangers and was tired of life.
In 2003, a supplement in the Guardian called Saving Grace told how Grace Mathanga, a young Malawi woman with HIV, faced almost certain death. Now she has a brighter future and is expecting a baby. But childbirth is a high risk for women in sub-Saharan Africa, especially those who have HIV. Dr Tariq Maguid from the Bwaila maternity hospital says the world can no longer turn a blind eye.
Haroon Siddique has followed charity the Safety Box as it tries to nip Britain's knife culture in the bud.
Sniping between two of America's best-known film directors has turned into a full-scale gunfight. Martin Wainwright reports on the latest round of insults between Spike Lee and Clint Eastwood.
