By John Bynorth

'Less than 1000 votes' separate Labour and SNP in Glasgow East by-election
By James Cusick, Westminster Editor

Prime minister makes unannounced visit to Basra
By James Cusick, Westminster Editor

400,000 are dead and peace talks failed. But the indictment for genocide of Sudan’s president may plunge the country deeper into despair
BY Fred Bridgland

Huge gulf between Hispanics and conservatives threatens Republican campaign
From Andrew Purcell in New York

Distillers circumvent 93-year prohibition on the favourite poison of artists, writers and bohemians
From Hugh Schofield in Paris

Sunday Herald Editorial

James Cusick on Brown's D-Day

Ian Bell on the Anglican crisis

ON THE SPOT Michael Grant

From young hot-head to ice-cool captain, Stephen McManus has come of age, finds Michael Grant

BARCLAYS PREMIER LEAGUE: Gabriele Marcotti predicts some movement among the middle-ranking contenders, but the cream of the crop are likely to stay firmly on top come the end of the season

Edinburgh business boss urges critics to maintain a sense of proportion in face of global slowdown
By Colin Donald, Business Editor

Robust figures expected as the engine maker looks to expand into nuclear energy
By John Phelps

Industry takes stock as much-vaunted target set to be abandoned
By Steven Vass

Maggie Gyllenhaal thought long and hard before taking a role in the new Batman film. Will Lawrence hears how a brush with big budget Hollywood fits into the plans of an actor who has always played the fame game her own way

In 1974, a young Frenchman stepped out to tightrope walk between the Twin Towers. Now a film has been made of Philippe Petit’s gravity-defying feat. Stephen Phelan spoke to him about the ‘artistic crime of the century’

1958 Andrew McLeod is a child living in Cuba in the early days of Che Guevara and Fidel Castro’s Revolución

2008 He returns to the haunts of his childhood ... but with the island on the cusp of another transformation, how do ordinary Cubans feel about the future?

By Vicky Allan