Cardinals meeting at the Vatican have just announced that the Pope's funeral will be held on Friday - raising the interesting prospect of a clash with Prince Charles' wedding, or perhaps the rescheduling of the royal nuptials. We'll have an audio report from either Stephen Bates or John Hooper in Rome, as well as from Ian Traynor in Krakow, Poland. We're also adding to our collection of photographs of mourners around the world.
The Pope's death has delayed the expected announcement of a general election in Britain. Tony Blair is now expected to ask the Queen for permission to dissolve parliament tomorrow. But we'll be launching our Election Blog today, and we've also got a survey of over 150 MPs, who've told us the achievements they've been most proud of since the 2001 election.
Elsewhere, Nick Paton Walsh is looking at prospects for democracy in Kyrgyzstan and in other countries in the former Soviet Union, and Anne McIlroy reports on Canada's increasingly icy relations with Iran.
We've also got a piece from the Zimbabwean pro-democracy group Sokwanele, which has been monitoring last week's elections. After three successive defeats at Mugabe's hands, what lessons have the opposition learned?
