It's emerged that Ken Livingstone, the celebrated lefty, is being advised on his mayoral campaign by New Labour's finest: Alastair Campbell, Phillip Gould and even Tony Blair himself. Matthew Taylor looks at who this suggests is more worried about next week's elections - Livingstone or the Labour party.
The education editor, Polly Curtis, discusses the teachers' strike, which has seen 8,000 schools across the country either closed or seriously disrupted, and examines whether the strikers have any chance of winning the pay rise they're after.
Chris McGreal reports from Harare on the proposal, published in a state-run newspaper, for a "government of national unity" in Zimbabwe, incorporating opposition parties but still controlled by Robert Mugabe, and asks whether it could solve the political crisis there.
Kevin McCarra reports from the Nou Camp on the Champions League semi-final between Barcelona and Manchester United.
The rapper Snoop Dogg has defeated another attempt by the government to ban him from Britain. Rachel Williams looks at why they are so keen to keep him out.
And we meet five-year-old Samuel Houghton, who has officially become Britain's youngest inventor after devising a revolutionary new cleaning device - two brushes held together with an elastic band.
