Michael Jackson is innocent. We've got audio from Dan Glaister, our reporter who covered the trial in Santa Maria, California; we'll be rounding up bloggers' reactions, we've a digest of what the UK's papers say; and we're gathering photographs of fans celebrating outside the courthouse.
As I write, Tony Blair is speaking in Paris ahead of talks with Jacques Chirac. Earlier in Luxembourg he rejected a proposal by the EU presidency to freeze Britain's contentious budget rebate - Matthew Tempest reports here.
In Iraq, there have been bombings in Kirkuk and Baghdad; suspected Islamist terrorists have been arrested in Germany; and there are warnings of a cholera outbreak in the Afghan capital, Kabul.
Declan Walsh's friends in Pakistan often berate him for failing to find positive news stories to write about. "The problem in Pakistan is that there is just so much bad news," he writes. For example, in his world dispatch today he details the case of Mukhtaran Bibi, who became a national hero after confronting in court the gang that raped her but who has now been banned from leaving the country.
