Police in India are reportedly to use the so-called "truth serum" sodium pentothal on a man they suspect to be involved in the attacks that claimed 170 lives in Mumbai. So how reliable is it?

The BBC's Allan Little reflects on how the ghost of Joshua Nkomo has been haunting Zimbabwe's crisis talks.

Osama Bin Laden's former driver knew the target of the fourth 9/11 plane, prosecutors tell his Guantanamo trial.

A former driver of Osama Bin Laden pleads not guilty at the first war crimes trial to be held in Guantanamo Bay.

A sex crime legislation overhaul aims to toughen the current laws on rape, consent, spiking drinks and offensive e-mails and texts.

All the key points from the debate and vote on government plans to extend terror detentions.

The key national security question in this election is whether to keep or roll back the Bush administration's post-9/11 legislation.

The BBC's Adam Brookes looks at possible reasons the US dropped charges against a suspected 9/11 plotter.

US Democrats fail to overturn Bush's veto of a bill which would have prevented harsh interrogation methods.

US President George Bush vetoes a bill that would stop the CIA using methods such as simulated drowning.

The US Senate votes to back a bill barring the CIA from using water-boarding and other harsh interrogation methods.

There is no let up in the papers for beleaguered minister Peter Hain as the row over donations rumbles on.

Campaigners may be able to go to court to stop a forced marriage without the permission of a victim.

The BBC's world affairs correspondent Paul Reynolds looks at the practice and legality of "water-boarding".

The CIA has a potentially damaging controversy on its hands after it reveals it destroyed tapes of terror suspects being interrogated.

Looking and being looked at, mingling with like-minded peers - going to the gallery is like going on promenade, says Lisa Jardine.

Maternal death are preventable but battles over ideology and politics are slowing down progress, experts say.

Pakistan's political crisis is affecting the morale of its troops engaged in fighting the Taleban, says columnist Ahmed Rashid.

Pakistan's press in unanimous in condemning the deportation of former PM Nawaz Sharif, hours after his return from a seven-year exile.

Prof Jon Silverman asks whether Britain's DNA database should include everyone in the interests of fighting crime.