The US is pressing for a new international high representative in Kabul, who would maintain the pressure on Hamid Karzai's government to tackle corruption. Julian Borger, our diplomatic editor, explains what the job would entail, while Ewen MacAskill, our Washington correspondent, looks at Barack Obama's options as the president prepares his major announcement tonight on the US strategy in Afghanistan.
Most tube passengers have experienced overcrowding, and some have found different ways of dealing with it, according to a report from the London Assembly's transport committee. Chair Caroline Pidgeon outlines the report's findings, while passengers at Kings Cross St Pancras give their view.
Rachel Williams looks at the case of a woman who told Cambridgeshire police she'd been raped, but found two months later the police had failed to launch an investigation.
Jon Henley reports from Dubai, the desert city whose financial problems are reverberating around the world.
Villagers in Westbury-sub-Mendip have found a novel solution to the proposed closure of their mobile library service and a red telephone box. Steven Morris reports from Somerset.
