An inquiry by MPs into the cash-for-honours affair that has dogged Labour for almost two years has concluded that the system under which peerages are awarded needs radical reform. Westminster correspondent David Hencke tells me the Commons committee's report is geared to persuade Gordon Brown to accept the recommendations.
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Fidel Castro has signaled that he may consider relinquishing power. But Ian Gibson, who chairs the all-party Cuban group of MPs, says he thinks the Cuban president will die in office.
As the government considers shoring up the UK's flood defences, Steven Morris meets Tewkesbury's flood victims who are looking forward to Christmas in a caravan.
Paris correspondent Angelique Chrisafis on President Nicolas Sarkozy and his new girlfriend, Italian supermodel-turned-singer Carla Bruni. The couple were pictured together at Disneyland Paris.
Suzanne Goldenberg reports from Iowa as John Edwards takes on frontrunners Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama for the Democratic nomination for presidential candidate.
Ros Taylor reviews the papers.
