Story of the day is the continuing confusion in Germany after yesterday's inconclusive general election result. Our correspondent Luke Harding will be posting here shortly, trying to work out which parties might team up to form a coalition. Could the Greens be the kingmakers, and what kind of government might that create?
In other news, our political team has decamped to Blackpool for the Liberal Democrats' conference. Sir Menzies Campbell is already making headlines for a call - for British troops to be withdrawn from Iraq - that he's yet to make.
Meanwhile, North Korea has agreed to give up its nuclear weapons research - again - and, in business, British logistics company Exel says it has agreed to be taken over by Deutsche Post in a deal worth £3.7bn.
Finally, research brings us some sad news: we're all too busy and stressed to enjoy dirty weekends like we used to. A blog post on this seems almost inevitable.
