• • Now we are facing our moment of truth - Brown

    PM will demand a Europe-wide bail-out of banks modelled on Britain's intervention

    • Editorial: A new order must be imposed

  • Will anything end the panic?

    G7 finance ministers hold meeting and devise plan to restore calm to markets with taxpayers' money

    • The generation facing its first recession
    • 'We're not worried just yet - we'll still drink and party'

  • 2m Britons on the dole by Christmas

    Companies are being squeezed as the City turmoil spreads into the so-called real economy

    • Trains, water and power may be next for bail-out

  • Mandelson to pocket £1m pay-off

    New Business Secretary is also eligible for salary of £104,386 as House of Lords cabinet minister

  • Townships condemn feuding ANC

    South Africans are rapidly losing patience with a divided ruling party seen as arrogant and greedy

  • Writers pen protests at terror bill

    42 writers will publish work attacking plans to hold terrorist suspects without charge for 42 days

• • Music

    State of Grace

    Miranda Sawyer gets more than she bargains for when she meets Grace Jones for dinner on the eve of her new album
    

  • Palin fights back after Troopergate

    Campaign rocked by ruling that Alaska's governor used her office to pursue private feud

    • Palin's Alaska vendetta adds to McCain's woe
    • Election pendulum swings back to Obama in Ohio

  • Crisis as Mugabe seizes top jobs

    Opposition party MDC said the move was 'unilateral, contemptuous and a barbaric ambush'

  • Why John longed to be Jock Lennon

    He never forgot his childhood holidays in the Scottish village of Durness. Now it is remembering him