In the latest edition of our news podcast, we look ahead to two crucial matches for England's international rugby and football teams, today's award of the Nobel Peace Prize to Al Gore, and the disturbing report that says children in the UK are suffering a "pervasive anxiety" about their lives.
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Libby Brooks, author of The Story of Childhood, joins me to discuss that report on children, which will feed into the biggest review of primary school education for 40 years.
We hear from our correspondent in Guatemala, Jo Tuckman, on the number of women there who die in pregnancy or childbirth. The Guardian's health editor, Sarah Boseley, says the figure is 500,000 around the world, each year.
There's a nip through today's papers, including the Mills-McCartney divorce, plus news from Rory Carroll in South America on opposition to Christopher Columbus Day.
