The message from Hillary Clinton to supporters in Denver was as neon as the tangerine pantsuit she wore to the ball. All that she stood for during her historic quest to be American's first woman president - equal rights for women, universal health care and economic equality - Barack Obama stands for too.

Mystery surrounds the likely landing place in Britain of the troubled former Canberra half-back, Todd Carney.

Look great when you head out on the town with one of these funky handbags.

Following a dramatic appearance by Hillary Clinton on the packed floor of the Democratic Convention, Barack Obama, the Hawaiian-born son of a mother from Kansas and a father from Kenya, was finally and officially named the party's presidential candidate last night.

Some 220 years ago, a shambolic English aristocrat with a fondness for smoking a labourer's clay pipe staged one of the great art-buying coups by acquiring 305 masterpieces, including two coveted works by Titian, from the collection of a close relative of the recently beheaded French king Louis XVI. The price? The trifling sum of £43,000.

Cabinet ministers will give Gordon Brown "one last chance" to save his premiership but will try to oust him by November if he fails to improve Labour's prospects.

An underworld gunsmith who modified replica machine guns in a garden shed "factory" – weapons which were used in a surge of shootings and murders, including the killing of PC Sharon Beshenivsky in Bradford in 2005 – could be jailed for life after being found guilty of firearms offences.

Fears were growing last night for a businessman and his family who have been missing since their country home was burnt to the ground in a suspected arson attack.

Henry "Blowers" Blofeld, 68, has been commentating for Test Match Special on Radio 4 since 1972. "An Evening with Henry Blofeld" is a CD, a new DVD and a tour which begins at The Stables in Milton Keynes next week. Details on www.henryblofeld.com.