As global shares plunge, business editor Deborah Hargreaves looks at the government's £24bn deal to end uncertainty over Northern Rock. The Treasury hopes to help private sale with a bonds guarantee.
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Senior political correspondent Andy Sparrow on the passage through the Commons of the EU treaty bill. Gordon Brown's allowed the Commons to spend two months debating ratification of the bill in the hope that Tory splits will emerge.
Hillary Clinton and John McCain are the frontrunners in their respective races to find Democratic and Republican presidential candidates. Our US correspondents Ed Pilkington, Ewen MacAskill and Suzanne Goldenberg discuss last weekend's primaries in South Carolina and Nevada.
The Observer's Jo Revill reports from a kidney transplant operation at Hammersmith hospital in west London.
Helen Pidd meets pigeon fanciers at the British Homing World Show in Blackpool, attended by 25,000 enthusiasts.
Today's papers reviewer is Ros Taylor.
