British schoolteacher Gillian Gibbons arrived back in the UK today after being freed from a Sudanese prison. Ms Gibbons was sentenced last week to 15 days in jail for insulting Islam by naming a teddy bear Muhammad. She won a pardon after the intervention of two UK Muslim peers. One of them, Lord Ahmed, tells me how he helped persuade President Omar al-Bashir to release Ms Gibbons.
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The latest US intelligence on Iran has been published - and it says Tehran has no nuclear weapons and is not trying to acquire them. Diplomatic editor Julian Borger says this kills off any plans George Bush has for military action against Iran.
John Darwin went missing in 2002. He was last seen in a kayak on the North Sea. Everyone believed he was dead, and his wife has apparently left the UK for Panama. But on Saturday he turned up at a London police station saying he remembered nothing of the last five years. Audrey Gillan reports.
A variety of factors - global warming, the switch to biofuels, and consumption in booming developing countries such as China and India - is sending global food prices soaring, reports Jonathan Watts from Beijing.
Andrew Dickson speaks to me from the Tate Liverpool, where last night it was announced that Mark Wallinger had won the Turner Prize.
And we've a clip of Martin Amis's lecture on terrorism last night.
Ros Taylor reviews the papers.
