The US treasury secretary, Tim Geithner, won the support of the US senate earlier this week for his measures to ease the credit crisis. But as our New York business reporter Andrew Clark explains, he has yet to convince Wall Street that his plans will work.
Gordon Brown faced questions from MPs yesterday on the Commons liaison committee. Senior political correspondent Andrew Sparrow assesses the prime minister's performance.
Church Times columnist Jonathan Bartley discusses children in the latest in our Another Thought for the Day series.
Rome correspondent John Hooper says that by denouncing antisemitism, the Pope went some way to drawing a line under the offence he recently caused Jews and Catholics by his re-appointment of Richard Williamson, a dissident bishop who denies the Holocaust.
In Israel, the political horse-trading continues as the main parties attempt to form a coalition government following this week's inconclusive election result, reports Rory McCarthy from Jerusalem.
