Barack Obama denies his government is now running the car industry.
But head of business Dan Roberts says the president effectively removed the head of General Motors, Rick Wagoner, who quit after a meeting in Washington early this morning.
The rights of Afghan women are being severely curbed by a new Sharia law approved by the president, Hamid Karzai. Jon Boone reports from Kabul.
The Dunfermline building society has collapsed, unable to pay its debts after the government declined to bail it out.
Its assets are being transferred to the Nationwide building society. Scotland correspondent Severin Carrell asked the people of Dunfermline what they think.
New cars will carry tracking devices that would allow drivers to be traced wherever they are in Europe, under new plans being drawn up by EU officials. Paul Lewis has the details.
Tom Parfitt reports from Moscow on a new row between Ukraine and Russia - this time over the nationality of the writer Nicholai Gogol.
