Torrential downpour in south London today can mean only one thing: it's the opening day of Wimbledon fortnight, with champion Roger Federer again the player to beat in the men's competition. Weather permitting, we'll have minute-by-minute coverage from 12 on Guardian Unlimited Sport.
Sticking with the weather, a clean-up is under way after flash floods devastated some northern areas of Britain yesterday. The south, meanwhile, was basking in temperatures hotter than the Caribbean. We'll have photographs galore.
And - in today's last water-related story - over on our new arts blog, Culture Vulture, you can read the sorry tale of how Channel 4 pranksters drenched an angry Tom Cruise in the name of comedy.
After last week's disastrous EU summit Tony Blair will make a Commons statement today before he returns to Brussels to appeal over the heads of Gerhard Schröder and Jacques Chirac to the leaders of 'new Europe'. In the Middle East, suicide bombers have struck again in Iraq. In Lebanon, the main anti-Syrian opposition alliance has claimed victory in yesterday's election, and Brian Whitaker's world dispatch will bring us up to date on the latest developments in the investigation into the murder of the former prime minister, Rafik Hariri in a car bombing on February 14.
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