In Pakistan, Asif Ali Zardari – husband of the assassinated former prime minister Benazir Bhutto – has been sworn in as president. But as the Observer's Jason Burke says, ordinary Pakistanis haven't got much enthusiasm for him
The US government has bailed out the Federal Home Loan Mortgage Corporation, nicknamed Freddie Mac, and the Federal National Mortgage Association, known as Fannie Mae. The two companies account for half of all mortgages in the US. Economics correspondent Ashley Seager told the Guardian's Belinda Rhodes why markets had reacted so positively.
There has been a lot of vitriol directed at Sarah Palin since the Republican presidential candidate John McCain announced her selection as his running mate in the US election campaign. But our foriegn affairs columnist Simon Tisdall says that not only has Palin survived the attacks, she's also galvanised Middle America, and given the McCain campaign a significant boost in the polls.
Children as young as nine are being held in appalling conditions in Baghdad's prisons. The Guardian's senior foreign correspondent Jonathan Steele reports.
Bob Dylan's second album, 1963's The Freewheelin' Bob Dylan propelled the songwriter from New York's tight-knit folk music scene to a wider audience. The intimate photograph on the album's cover depicted the 21-year-old singer walking through a wintry Greenwich Village with his 18-year-old girlfriend Suze Rotolo. 45 years later, Suze Rotolo – Dylan's close companion and muse – is telling her story in a new book.
