After another day of plunging share prices, the chancellor, Alistair Darling, has announced the government's plans to stabilise the banking system. With the details is Fiona Walsh, editor of guardian.co.uk/business.
Luke Harding, our Moscow correspondent, explains why Russia may be about to lend Iceland billions of euros in an effort to prop up its wounded economy, while Jon Henley reports from Reykjavik. Harding also assesses the net credentials of Dmitry Medvedev, the Russian president, who's just made the first ever Kremlin podcast.
Barack Obama and John McCain have taken part in the second TV debate between the presidential candidates. Our Washington team give their verdict. Jason Solomons reports on the importance of the Jewish vote in deciding next month's elections.
The Archbishop of Canterbury, Rowan Williams, tells the Guardian's Stuart Jeffries why he's written a book about the Russian novelist Fyodor Dostoevsky.
