Seven foreign nationals have been held in raids in London and Manchester under the home secretary's powers to deport individuals for reasons of national security. The Home Office says the deportation orders were made using the Immigration Act 1971 rather than the home secretary's new deportation powers. In related news the first concrete details about the government's new anti-terror powers are being published today, amid signs that the post-7/7 political consensus is over.
In other news, there has been more violence in Iraq; graphics maestro Paddy Allen has created this interactive guide to the environmental damage wrought by Hurricane Katrina; and Robert Tait has written from Iran on the rock-star status accorded to a poet who died more than 600 years ago.
Guardian Unlimited Arts are covering the unveiling of Marc Quinn's Alison Lapper Pregnant statue in Trafalgar Square. And today on our new travel site, Been there, we'd like you to give us your tips on Rio de Janeiro.
