Sir Alan Budd is stepping down as head of the Office for Budget Responsibility after just three months, amid claims that the spending watchdog was not politically independent, as the chancellor stated when he announced its formation shortly after gaining office. The Guardian's head of business Dan Roberts says its a huge embarrassment for George Osborne.
Raphael Honigstein, the Guardian's German football correspondent, looks ahead to tomorrow's World Cup semifinal between Germany and Spain. We ask Boris Herrmann of the Berliner Zeitung what it means to Germans.
Security editor Richard Norton-Taylor examines David Cameron's announcement today of an independent inquiry into allegations of British complicity in the torture of terror suspects.
And architect Jean Nouvel joins our design editor Jonathan Glancey at his first building in the UK: the new Serpentine Pavilion in London's Hyde Park.
