A suicide car bomb has killed at least 106 people and wounded 133 in Hilla, a town 60 miles south of Baghdad. We'll be keeping up with the latest from the scene and are contacting Rory Carroll, our correspondent in Iraq, for an audio report.
Guardian Unlimited Film was up all night in its best frock to bring you everything you need to know about last night's Academy Awards, which saw Clint Eastwood pip Martin Scorsese for the best director Oscar. Read all the quotes, see all the outfits and ponder whether Marty was robbed with Xan Brooks.
Back in Britain, the government's anti-terrorism bill is back in the Commons, with the home secretary, Charles Clarke, seeking to reassure Labour backbenchers that he is not giving himself carte blanche to lock up whoever he wants. Matthew Tempest will have the latest.
Here on the newsblog, meanwhile, Mark Tran will be looking at the rise of the fair trade movement, while Sarah Left will be dissecting what's being said about Tony Blair's Middle East summit tomorrow and Mark Oliver will be picking out titbits from Piers Morgan's "explosive secret diary", as serialised today in the Mail.
