Our political commentator Martin Kettle analyses Gordon Brown's conference speech, plus we get reaction from delegates. Was it enough to stave off the calls for his head?
Ed Pilkington reports from the UN assembly in New York as the US president, George Bush, gives his last speech there.
A $700bn bail-out pledged by the US government to offload bad debt is yet to be signed off by Congress. The Observer's economics commentator William Keegan explains.
Peter Walker reports on how 60-year-old prefab homes could get grade II listed building status, and Alison Benjamin reports on the new zero tolerance police policy towards the homeless in the City of London.
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