Facing allegations that he forced out a whistleblower who warned about excessive risk-taking at HBOS, Sir James Crosby, an advisor to Gordon Brown, has resigned as deputy chairman of the Financial Services Authority. Head of business Dan Roberts says Crosby had to go.
With unemployment edging toward 2 million, building workers have staged an unofficial walk-out on the issue of the use of foreign workers. Martin Wainwright reports from Nottinghamshire.
Zimbabwe's President Robert Mugabe has done the unthinkable and sworn in the leader of the opposition Movement for Democratic Change as prime minister. The Guardian's Chris McGreal attended a rally held by Morgan Tsvangirai later in Harare.
Claire Rayner discusses the role of greed in creating the current recession, in the latest in our secular series Another Thought for the Day.
Technology editor Charles Arthur considers whether Spotify can revolutionise our consumption of digital music.
And actor Angela Bassett talks to Hannah Pool about her new role as Biggie Smalls' mother in the biopic Notorious.
