Today, Nicolas Sarkozy meets Gordon Brown at Arsenal's Emirates stadium. Our Paris correspondent Angelique Chrisafis has been following the French president's state visit, hailed as a success in France and in the UK. Sketchwriter Simon Hoggart gives his view of Sarkozy's Anglophile speech to both houses of parliament yesterday.
Pakistan is reviewing its counterterrorism strategy after the election of a new government opposed to President Pervez Musharraf's pro-US policy. Declan Walsh in Islamabad assesses the options as two senior US diplomats visit Pakistan in an attempt to shore up George Bush's alliance.
The Ministry of Defence faces a funding crisis so acute that it may have to scrap one of its major equipment projects, according to a committee of MPs. But security editor Richard Norton-Taylor says some of the armed forces' equipment was commissioned for political rather than military reasons.
Business correspondent Philip Inman looks at the Financial Services Authority's report into its mistakes in handling the Northern Rock crisis.
And science correspondent James Randerson says the discovery of human remains in a cave in Spain is hugely significant – scientists believe it's Europe's oldest human.
