Hurricane Wilma has made landfall in Florida after battering Cuba's west coast and Mexico's Yucatán peninsula. We'll be bringing you reports throughout the day and updating this gallery of photographs showing the effects of the storm.
In Britain, the focus is on education ahead of tomorrow's white paper, with Tony Blair due to give a speech at 1pm outlining his plans to give state schools more independence. The plan is controversial: it has been opposed by Mr Blair's deputy John Prescott and gets a mixed reception from voters and teachers.
We'll have the third and final instalment of our aid worker's diary from Malawi (here are his first and second tranches).
And Culture Vulture will be getting its claws into the scandalous absence from UK screens on Saturday night of the TV extravaganza at which the Swedish popsters Abba were voted Eurovision champion of champions. We'll also be asking you to confess if you've ever bought a book just to look clever.
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