The news: an Anglican rift

The Archbishop of Canterbury has presented an ultimatum to the liberal wing of the Anglican Church that could lead to the most important re-ordering of the communion in nearly 500 years.

Dioceses in America, Canada and Scotland that refuse to recognise a set of defining biblical standards will become "associates" rather than full members of the Church. The Times says Dr Rowan Williams has not ended the Anglican agony over homosexuality but "at least he has given the Church clarity and genuine leadership". Read and comment on Ruth Gledhill's weblog.

A teenaged girl who wrote an 18-page guide to choosing and murdering a "rich, elderly and defenceless" victim has been found guilty of the murder of a 84-year-old woman in Golders Green.

“I am a human being like you. I have eyes, a brain and wear clothes, but they are saying ‘We don’t talk with people, we eat people. We are killer’." The Times meets the most wanted man in Africa: Joseph Kony, the near-mythic leader of the Lord's Resistance Army in Uganda.

Margaret Beckett swore when Tony Blair promoted her to Foreign Secretary. She talks to Philip Webster, The Times political editor, in more moderate tones in her first interview since being dropped into the hot water of nuclear negotiations with Iran.

Ms Beckett said she hoped that the Prime Minister and Gordon Brown would agree to a smooth succession — an issue made more urgent by Charles Clarke's attack on Mr Blair yesterday.

Peter Riddell notes that Mr Blair is putting on a show of energy right now, "but... there is the problem of who is listening". In Times 2, Ginny Dougary meets Lord Healey, the best prime minister Britain never had, and finds him content. "Now, you know, I'm happy all the time."

The space shuttle, an icon of exploration, will be retired in 2010. Nasa announced yesterday that the next generation of spaceaircraft will be disposable rockets, like the tall, distinctive Apollo Moon landers.