The chancellor, Alistair Darling, should cut government borrowing faster as the economy recovers, the governor of the Bank of England, Mervyn King, told MPs yesterday. Observer business editor Heather Stewart says it was a highly unusual intervention from the Bank chief.
Iran expert Massoumeh Torfeh from the School of Oriental and African Studies in London tells Middle East editor Ian Black that the regime always accuses political dissidents of being spies.
Jon Boone reports from Kabul on a major operation by British troops in a militant stronghold in southern Afghanistan.
Diplomatic editor Julian Borger assesses the hunt for Osama bin Laden, eight years after President George Bush vowed to capture him "dead or alive".
Environment correspondent Alok Jha explains why conservationists say overfishing threatens several species of shark and ray with extinction.
