Economics editor Larry Elliott analyses the government's latest poverty figures, and northern editor Martin Wainwright meets pensioners on the breadline in Leeds.
Ahead of tonight's vote on detention limits for terrorism suspects, student Rizwaan Sabir tells us what it was like being held for six days.
We get a picture of life in Afghanistan from photojournalist John D McHugh, who has been embedded with US troops, and the Observer's Peter Beaumont.
Welcome to Thanet Earth, in Kent, Britain's biggest greenhouse development. Esther Addley reports.
And EMI pins its hopes on Coldplay's success. The band's new album, Viva La Vida Or Death & All His Friends, is out this week. The Guardian's media correspondent Owen Gibson gives us his verdict.