The US envoy John Negroponte has called on General Musharraf to lift his state of emergency before holding elections in January. But Musharraf's spokesman Major General Rashid Qureshi defends Pakistan's state of emergency and his government's treatment of the judiciary.
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The death toll from Friday's cyclone could have been much higher, says Juliet Parker, Christian Aid's emergency specialist, in Dakar. She says the Bangladeshi government's early warning mechanisms prevented a repeat of the 1991 disaster.
Diplomatic editor Julian Borger reports from Cairo on Tony Blair's plan for economic aid for Palestinians ahead of next week's peace talks.
Ian Cobain tells me of the Guardian's remarkable email exchange with Uzbek billionaire Alisher Usmanov, who owns shares in Arsenal.
And Kevin McCarra looks back at this weekend's international football, with England and Northern Ireland still in the Euro 2008 qualifiers but Scotland out.
Matt Weaver reviews the papers, with news of Gordon's big tent.
