The French president, Nicolas Sarkozy, takes over the EU's rotating six-month presidency in three weeks' time. He plans to push forward with the integration of Europe's defence. Europe editor Ian Traynor says his proposals include a Brussels operational headquarters.
British and American diplomats were detained yesterday, marking a new low in the west's already dire relations with Zimbabwe. Ian Black has the details.
At yesterday's Downing Street summit on knife crime, Gordon Brown told prosecutors he wanted more 16- and 17-year-olds found carrying knifes to be taken to court. But Kevin Stenson, a professor of criminology at Middlesex University, says there's little evidence such a crackdown would reduce knife crime.
Xan Rice meets some of Barack Obama's relatives in Kenya.
Sketchwriter Simon Hoggart gives his view of Tony Blair's return to the House of Commons yesterday. In his capacity as envoy for the Quartet (the US, EU, UN and and Russia), the former prime minister faced a select committee hearing into the Middle East.
Martin Wainwright witnesses another comeback: that of Sir Ken Morrison at the supermarket chain Wm Morrison's AGM.
And chief football writer Kevin McCarra looks ahead to the Euro 2008 tournament, which starts tomorrow.
