All the key points, analysis and reaction as Harriet Harman stands in for Gordon Brown at PMQs

All the latest action from a truncated SPL card.

What happened to the 1998 suggestion that registrars get more powers and become "secular vicars".

An MSP calls for a station which will form part of the Borders rail link to be renamed in recognition of the area's link to Sir Walter Scott.

Australia extend their lead to 263 runs over India at the end of day four of the first Test.

Andy Murray wins a late night epic on fourth round day after Roger Federer and the Williams sisters win but Jelena Jankovic goes out.

Newcastle end the opening day of the Premier League season top of the table, as Sunderland, Everton, Blackburn, Man City and Liverpool also win.

The Cutty Sark is to undergo yet more restoration work after being ravaged by fire. At what point does it cease to be the original ship, asks Lisa Jardine.

Ad Breakdown wonders what's the point of Virgin Trains coming under Apache attack.

Elizabeth I is the big winner at the 2006 Emmys, with four awards to add to five previously awarded.

Most of the luminaries of journalism and the law have had one. But what magic does a private education weave to help you get ahead?

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BBC Europe Editor Mark Mardell on a threat to EU's traditional Christmas break, the difficulty of laying down the law on chemicals.

Jon Yuill, who writes an occasional column about commuting, says the London bomb attacks have put his gripes into perspective.

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A Vatican cardinal rallies the faithful in Genoa against Dan Brown's bestseller The Da Vinci Code.

BAR's Anthony Davidson and Jenson Button set the pace at the first Chinese Grand Prix.

Plans for a permanent memorial to missing schoolboy Daniel Nolan are revealed, as fellow pupils are told his death has been confirmed.

Thursday's European press is dominated by yesterday's dramatic events in Baghdad, summed up in many of the papers with front-page pictures of the statue of Saddam Hussein being toppled from its plinth.

BBC NI political editor Mark Devenport compares the job British troops are doing in Iraq with the lessons they learned on the streets of Northern Ireland.