In an interview with the Guardian today, Gordon Brown says he takes "full responsibility" for his role in the banking failures that led to the global recession.
Chief political correspondent Nicholas Watt looks at Labour's election prospects in the light of the prime minister's comments.
Kate Connolly reports from St Pölten, west of Vienna, on the extraordinary trial of 73-year-old Josef Fritzl, who kept his daughter in a cellar for 24 years and fathered seven children with her.
Saeed Shah looks at the latest developments in Pakistan, where the government averted a political crisis by reinstating the sacked chief justice yesterday.
French wine producers are unhappy at EU plans to allow wine producers make rosé by mixing together red and white, Angelique Chrisafis reports from Paris.
An internal inquiry has condemned the Metropolitan police for "serious failures" in its handling of rape inquiries, Rachel Williams reports.
