Vikram Dodd describes the police reaction to comments by Kit Malthouse, a deputy to the London mayor, Boris Johnson, that the latter was in effect running the Metropolitan police.
Sports correspondent Owen Gibson looks at Fifa's ban on Chelsea signing any more players for 18 months, after ruling that the club illegally induced a French youth player to join the club in 2007.
Peter Walker reports from Sheffield, where two brothers, aged 12 and 10, have admitted carrying out a vicious attack on two schoolboys in a case that evoked memories of the James Bulger murder.
As G20 finance ministers discuss ways of reining in the banks, political editor, Patrick Wintour, explains why Gordon Brown's fortunes may rest on the G20 summit in three weeks' time.
And Declan Walsh reports from Lahore on Pakistan's burgeoning rock music scene.
