Pakistan's ex-prime minister has been forced to remain in her house in Islamabad. Declan Walsh is on the scene, where a suicide bomber killed four people as Benazir Bhutto's supporters gather to protest.
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England's east coast is in danger of severe flooding today. Simon Hughes, flood risk manager at the Environment Agency, tells me why. Our reporter Rachel Williams reports from Great Yarmouth, where thousands have been evacuated amid fears of a repeat of the 1953 disaster.
Much worse floods have destroyed 100% of the crops in the Mexican state of Tabasco. Jo Tuckman meets some of the hundreds of thousands of evacuees.
Ian Cobain explains why Lord Ashcroft faces questions about his peerage, his tax and his home. Pledges were made on the Tory donor's behalf before he received his peerage and settled a libel action.
Ewen MacAskill reports from Washington on Rudy Giuliani's campaign to become Republican presidential candidate.
Martin Wainwright visits West Yorkshire, where a small firm hopes to produce truffles for a major supermarket chain.
