Lots of big international stories on the agenda today: the White House is braced for indictments against senior officials over the leaking of the identity of CIA agent Valerie Plame, and there is speculation that the president will today name a new candidate to the supreme court. His first choice Harriet Miers was forced to withdraw yesterday in the face of resistance from within the Republican party and some commentators think a speedy replacement might detract attention from the Plame affair.
Kofi Annan has added his voice to the chorus of condemnation of the Iranian president's call for Israel to be wiped off the earth. Tehran's embassy in Moscow has rowed back from the comments, saying Mahmoud Ahmedinejad "did not have any intention to speak up in such sharp terms and enter into a conflict", although the president himself stood firm, telling a rally in Tehran today: "My words were the Iranian nation's words. Westerners are free to comment, but their reactions are invalid."
Dan Glaister has this dispatch about a death-row prisoner whose fate lies in Arnold Schwarzenegger's hands, and coming up shortly here on Newsblog is the latest of our aid worker's diaries from Malawi. Today Chris Endean of the World Food Programme talks to medical staff about the plight of HIV-positive children.
In the UK, Brighton and Hove Albion football club has secured the go-ahead for a new stadium, to the dismay of environmentalists who don't want to see a 23,000-seat stadium built on the South Downs.
