Political editor Patrick Wintour assesses the difficulties for Gordon Brown as senior Labour officials face questions over Labour's secret donor.
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Our Middle East editor Ian Black reports from Annapolis, Maryland, on the Israeli-Arab summit, where Israeli and Palestinian leaders have agreed to hold talks. The agreement sidesteps the core issues of refugees, Jerusalem, borders and settlements.
East Africa correspondent Xan Rice reports on the British schoolteacher arrested in Sudan for naming teddy bear Muhammad. Gillian Gibbons is accused of insulting Islam.
Justin McCurry reports from Tokyo on the first Chinese warship to visit Japan for more than 70 years - a sign of a thaw in relations between the neighbours.
The Literary Review's Philip Womack, one of the judges of the Bad Sex in Fiction award, says the late Norman Mailer deserved to win with passages such as "she took his old battering ram into her lips ..."
Kevin McCarra previews tonights Champions League football, with Chelsea, Liverpool, Celtic and Rangers in action; and looks at Scotland's familiar search for a new national coach.
Ros Taylor reviews the papers.
