In Newsdesk today, Rory Carroll in Buenos Aires tells us what we can expect from Argentina's new president, Christina Fernandez de Kirchner, something of an exception in the macho and male-dominated world of South American politics, who was elected last night with a crushing majority.
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In their battle against an alarming wave of youth violence, Britain's police have come up with a controversial plan to ask doctors to abandon their Hippocratic oath by reporting young victims of gun and knife crime.
Chris McGreal, the Guardian's southern Africa correspondent, recounts British Airways last flight out of Harare, the capital of Robert Mugabe's increasingly stricken Zimbabwe; a state visit by King Abdullah of Saudi Arabia sparks protest in London; and in the wake of Jose Mourinho's abrupt departure a few weeks ago and Chelsea football club's sparkling form under their new manager ever since, we ask just how special was "the special one" anyway? All that, plus a review of today's papers.
