Senior bankers from the Royal Bank of Scotland and Halifax Bank of Scotland faced the Treasury select committee yesterday to answer questions about the financial crisis and their role in it. Head of business Dan Roberts says it was an important moment.
Stand-up and political activist Mark Thomas was at Westminster to see the bankers make what passed for an apology. He gives his view in the latest in our secular series Another Thought for the Day.
Daniel Nasaw reports from Washington after the Senate votes in favour of Barack Obama's fiscal stimulus package.
One of the victims of the Australian bush fire was Sue Aldred. She recalls how her family home was destroyed in the inferno.
The Guardian's Maev Kennedy explains why Mark Wallinger's £2m sculpture of a giant horse in north Kent may never see the light of day.
