I've just spoken to religious affairs correspondent Stephen Bates, who's on a train with the Church of England's first black Archbishop. Stephen will be posting to the Newsblog today.
European leaders are meeting today in Brussels to discuss the thorny question of budget reforms. On our business site, Victor Keegan argues for a sharp cut in eurozone interest rates in order to revive Europe's flagging economies.
And as the summer's other major summit approaches, at a school in Fife this morning Gordon Brown kept the focus on Africa, telling his audience of the human suffering he had encountered on visits to Africa. Here on the Newsblog we report on the latest attack on Bob Geldof's Live 8 line-up.
Iranians are voting in their election today; we'll have an audio report from Robert Tait in Tehran and a round-up of the best pictures.
And Jane Perrone blogs here about the great asparagus shortage of 2005.
