Head of business Dan Roberts looks ahead to today's budget, the most important for a generation. He says it is a major opportunity for the chancellor, Alistair Darling, to pull some rabbits out of the hat ahead of the election.
Andrew Sparrow, our senior political correspondent, explains the politics behind Gordon Brown's sudden announcement yesterday of a vote next week in the Commons on the abolition of MPs' second home allowances.
Jacob Zuma is poised to lead the African National Congress to victory in today's South African general elections, as David Smith reports from Johannesburg.
In Kenya's Masai Mara reserve, numbers of giraffes are in dramatic decline, according to a new survey. In Nairobi, Xan Rice has the details.
Paris correspondent Angelique Chrisafis looks at the first of several new films celebrating the life of Coco Chanel.
