Jon Boone reports from Kabul, where there's increasing pressure on President Hamid Karzai from Washington over the disputed result of August's election.
The pressures of work leave many fathers struggling to spend enough time with their families, according to the Equality and Human Rights Commission. The commission's group director of strategy, Andrea Murray, explains why.
Chief arts writer Charlotte Higgins looks at a project by the Tate and Nick Park's Aardman Animations - creators of Wallace & Gromit - to enlist the help of 1 million children in making an animated feature film.
The Pakistani army claims it killed 60 militants as 30,000 troops backed by warplanes and artillery sweep into South Waziristan, from where Declan Walsh reports.
And the Irish rock band Ash talk to the Guardian's Steven Morris about their A-Z tour of the UK, beginning last night in Aldershot and ending in the Cornish village of Zennor.
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