Elana Schor reports from Washington on last night's vote in the US senate on Henry Paulson's bailout plan for the financial sector. Meanwhile Richard Adams looks ahead to tonight's televised debate between the vice-presidential candidates Sarah Palin and Joe Biden.
In the UK, Allegra Stratton assesses David Cameron's keynote speech to the Conservative party conference in Birmingham.
Luke Harding reports from Georgia, where Russian troops have allowed EU monitors into a buffer zone on the edge of the breakaway region South Ossetia.
Education editor Polly Curtis looks at the state of school trips. Today an Ofsted report says pupils are failing to derive the maximum benefits from learning outside the classroom.
And Duncan Campbell discusses the career of Great Train Robber Ronnie Biggs, whose friends hope to see him released from prison early next year.
