It's a busy day on the political front, with Jack Straw and Gordon Brown hotfooting it back to Westminster from foreign trips in an attempt to bolster Labour's vote on this afternoon's terror bill, as the government faces possibly the first defeat of Tony Blair's premiership. Meanwhile the two Davids are trying to charm female Tories, with appearances on BBC Radio 4's Woman's Hour and a hustings event at the Conservative Women's Organisation's annual conference in London.
We'll also be covering Chinese president Hu Jintao's meeting with Blair this lunchtime, and we'll bring you the latest results from elections in the US which saw considerable gains for the Democrats, including winning the governor's office in New Jersey and the defeat of propositions from Republican governor Arnold Schwarzenegger to cap spending and limit the powers of the California state legislature.
Also on the site today, Ben Goldacre, who writes the Guardian's Bad Science column, responds to Melanie Phillips' latest salvo in the row over MMR vaccinations.
