Rod Blagojevich, the governor of Illinois, is accused of plotting to sell the seat in the US Senate left vacant by Barack Obama. Washington correspondent Suzanne Goldenberg discusses Governor Blagojevich's arrest yesterday by FBI agents.
Child injury rates in the poorest parts of the UK are as high as those in Kazakhstan, according to a report today from the World Health Organisation. Dr Etienne Krug, director of the WHO's department of violence and injury prevention and disability, says although the UK has a good safety record, it could do more to protect young people.
The UN summit on climate change is under way in Poznan, Poland. Stavros Dimas, the European commissioner for the environment, says Europe would be prepared to become virtually carbon-free in order to secure a new deal to replace the Kyoto Protocol. Environment correspondent David Adam tells Guardian Daily's Matt Wells about the plan.
The world's poorest nations face the most severe damage from global warming. Environment editor John Vidal reports from Immaculada, in north-east Brazil.
Broadcaster Peter Curran, who met the late Oliver Postgate when he made a radio documentary about him, remembers the man behind such children's TV favourites as Bagpuss, The Clangers, Noggin the Nog, and Ivor the Engine.
