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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
World
Sheila Pulham

On the site today

Guardian Unlimited Sport's Rob Smyth is following the final day of the fourth Test in Johannesburg, where England have declared on 411-8. It's looking like a draw.

Back in Britain, the campaigns for the expected May 5 general election are heating up, with the Tories today expected to outline tax cuts worth £5bn and the Liberal Democrats also launching their pre-election strategy.

Also on the site today, Mike Pitts, the editor of British Archaeology magazine, calls for a full investigation into reported damage by US troops in Iraq to the ancient city of Babylon.

Here on Newsblog we're looking at Seymour Hersh's New Yorker report that US special forces have been conducting secretive reconnaissance missions inside Iran, and Simon Jeffery is examining a looming row over reports that some leftwing bloggers were paid as consultants by candidates they blogged about.

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