Uninspired
I'm not excited about much that's out there today - perhaps you can help by telling us what we should be talking about.
I've included the top stories this morning, but one thing that caught my eye is the return of Iraq's parliament after a month-long recess - AFP reports that it will discuss breaking up country into semi-independent regions. Would that be a final arrangement or just a step on the path to a complete breakup of Iraq?
We also could talk about suicide in prisons - Ian Huntley, who was jailed for life for the 2002 Soham murders, was found unconscious in jail after a suspected overdose. Should a prisoner be allowed to take his own life?
The electoral feud in Mexico has been running, ignored by us and, to be fair, a lot of media (if that's any excuse) but the country's top electoral court says it will convene on Tuesday to rule on the contested presidential election.
A few weeks ago, a comment in The Guardian put forth a reason for the media silence. Do you want to break that silence?
One of the other stories that has caught my eye is at Stamford Bridge: Chelsea Football Club say William Gallas threatened to sabotage the team by scoring own goals etc. Regardless of whether he did or not, would he have been right to use such means to get out of his contract?
And should rich-world consumers feel guilty when they pay so little for clothes? Rahila Gupta writes in The Guardian that "the real cost of the cheap chic boom is borne by women working 80-hour weeks for £7 a month".
On the BBC News site, the top stories include the following. Are you inspired?
The best of the rest
The situation in Pakistan's tribal areas has been cropping up every now and again at our editorial meetings for a while. The Hindu is joining in:
Escalating conflict in Balochistan could push President Pervez Musharraf to adopt an aggressive position against India.
No doubt Kevin would knock this one on the head as being the same old tune but it's a good read anyway, especially for someone who's not BBC News Online's former Washington correspondent:
Once a Progressive State, Minnesota Is Now a Fief of the N.R.A.
And as students around the world (at least in the Northern hemisphere I guess) go back to school, are they worried about the cost of a university education?
The Telegraph joins yesterday's debate: Why Darfur was left to its pitiful fate
More than two years after Colin Powell declared the civil war in western Sudan a "genocide" - and after no fewer than 11 UN resolutions on Darfur - President Omar al-Bashir of Sudan feels confident enough to launch yet another offensive, writes David Blair.
And one for the future? - International focus on the disabled
The United Nations General Assembly is scheduled to adopt the International Convention on the Protection and Promotion of the Rights and Dignity of Persons with Disabilities -- the first human rights treaty of this century.
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