In today's show, the Guardian's economics editor, Larry Elliot, looks at the world economy as the US cuts interest rates further to 2.25%.
The Democratic presidential hopeful Barack Obama has addressed the race issue after his pastor Jeremiah Wright shocked many voters with his views on discrimination and terrorism. Our Washington correspondent Ewen MacAskill offers his analysis of the situation.
The Oscar-winning film director Anthony Minghella has died at the age of 54. We speak to a former colleague at the British Film Institute, Amanda Nevill.
Esther Addley has been leafing through 58 pages of court documentation made available by the judge in the McCartney-Mills divorce case.
There is a suggestion that the Bloody Sunday inquiry, the most expensive judicial inquiry in British history, might not have been necessary. The claim comes in a book by Tony Blair's former chief of staff Jonathan Powell, which the Guardian is serialising. We get the reaction of the former leader of the Ulster Unionist party David Trimble.
We speak to Justin McCurry in Tokyo about why the Japanese are bringing compulsory flab checks into the workplace.
