France has suffered its 11th consecutive night of rioting. In the spreading outbreak of urban unrest, there were at least 396 arrests, 1,400 vehicles torched and 30 police injured as youths fired shots and threw stones in cities from Lille to Nice. We'll be looking at blog reactions and rounding up the French press response, and speaking to our Paris correspondent Jon Henley for an audio update on the latest developments.
In the UK, Tony Blair will almost certainly not be relishing his monthly meeting with the press, at midday today. He's bound to face questions on the terror bill, amid expectations that he will be forced into a climbdown this week over his plans to detain terrorist suspects without charge for up to 90 days.
Thousands of serving and former police officers in Northern Ireland are claiming compensation for trauma they say they suffered during the Troubles; the World Health Organisation is meeting to discuss bird flu; and you can read our serialisation of the memoirs of Sir Christopher Meyer, the British ambassador to Washington at the time of the 2003 Iraq war. He gives a damning verdict on the prime minister's failure to exert any leverage on George Bush in the run-up to the invasion.
