Suzanne Goldenberg and Ewen MacAskill join Newsdesk's Francesca Panetta in Iowa, where Barack Obama won for the Democrats and Mike Huckabee for the Republicans in the first real test of voter opinion in the race to be the next US president.
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As acting Liberal Democrat leader Vincent Cable led the calls for the government to intervene to protect the public interest in the Northern Rock case. He tells me what he thinks of plans revealed by the chancellor, Alistair Darling, to reform the Financial Services Authority.
Environment editor John Vidal explains why scientists have criticised the government's plans to expand the nuclear power industry.
And just two weeks before she was assassinated, the late Benazir Bhutto speaks to the Observer's Jason Burke.
