A new trial of airport-style scanning techniques designed for rail and Underground stations announced by the transport secretary Alistair Darling this morning is bound to be controversial: will it deter would-be terrorists or simply result in further delays for already-harried passengers? The new transport screening plans are being discussed today at an anti-terror conference in London attended by transport and security chiefs from around the world .
Over at Guardian Unlimited Politics you can find out about Tony Blair's charm offensive aimed at gaining support for controversial forthcoming measures on education and incapacity benefit: we're also following the latest from the Tory leadership hustings in Leicester.
If you've been following the first Test between Pakistan and England, Guardian Unlimited Sport sums up the day's play here: you can also look back over the action with their inimitable over-by-over reports.
We've also got some exclusive comment and analysis on the site today: Akwe Amosu, a writer and broadcaster on African affairs, says new Liberian president Ellen Johnson-Sirleaf's gender may well be the least important thing about her as a politician; in his Cairo world dispatch, Rory McCarthy finds a glaring gap between reform promises and voting practices in Egypt's parliamentary elections, and Alex Vines, head of the Africa programme at Chatham House, argues that there needs to be greater monitoring of the effectiveness of UN sanctions in Africa.
