LLoyds TSB want an easier repayment deal and may seek private buyers for preference shares

Biggest rise in jobless since 1990s as effect of 14-month credit crunch becomes clear

Nils Pratley: Let's hope this compromise is not the first of many, because the broad principles of the rescue plan are correct

Gordon Brown calls for summit to prevent new crisis and reform Bretton Woods system

Asperger's sufferer admits attempted murder as police suggest he was encouraged by al-Qaida sympathisers

Oliver Burkeman's Campaign Diary: A minute-by-minute dispatch

England emerged with three points in Belarus to make it four wins out of four qualifying matches

Number of trusts rated good or excellent increases by over 50% but most miss MRSA reduction targets

French police examine alleged poisoning of Putin critic prior to Anna Politkovskaya murder trial

Celebrity couple halt months of speculation by confirming end of eight-year marriage

Recent bestsellers prompt search for new literary stars to target lucrative Arabic market

Former union leader resigns in criticism of ANC's so-called 'putsch' against Thabo Mbeki

Violence erupts as Hindu temple becomes focus of renewed row between fractious neighbours

Roberto Saviano says two years living under close protection have left him 'suspicious and wary'

Venture organised by Tehran council to promote meat which is low in fat and high in protein and iron

Images of the eight-year marriage of the pop star and the film director

Take a midweek meander through the weird and wonderful

Predictions for the final Obama-McCain debate from Guardian America's editor, Michael Tomasky, and the Democratic debate coach Julia Piscitelli

Markets respond to Bush banking bail-out; and Sats tests are scrapped for 14-year-olds

Aditya Chakrabortty explains the thinking behind the US president's economic recovery plan

In the past few years an unprecedented amount of money has poured into the art world. Has it become too commercialised? As Frieze, the UK's biggest art fair, opens in London, Sarah Thornton talks to eight leading artists about how the market influences them

Aravind Adiga's debut novel, The White Tiger, won the Booker prize this week. But its unflattering portrait of India as a society racked by corruption and servitude has caused a storm in his homeland. He tells Stuart Jeffries why he wants to expose the country's dark side

Germany's Piotr Trochowski scored a second-half goal to give them a 1-0 win against a resolutely defensive Wales

Sri Lanka's decision to accept Lalit Modi's $70m offer is comeuppance for the ECB's reluctance to grant the nation Test matches in England

Two dead and dozens of buildings destroyed as flames spread across San Fernando Valley in California

Aleks Krotoski hears from one of the leading competitors in this years Loebner prize for artificial intelligence and the new CEO of the online craft marketplace Etsy

Electric cars may be the green dream, but it's the small petrol and diesel 'city' cars that are creating a buzz in the downturn, says Bibi van der Zee

I still believe I will only desire and love the man who dumped me

Katine

Mining firm joins rivals in cutting aluminium output but produces record levels of iron ore

UK publishing group reports resilient sales despite looming recession thanks to strengthening dollar

Timothy Garton Ash: Well-intentioned laws that prescribe how we remember terrible events are foolish, unworkable and counter-productive

Andrew Phillips: A welter of regulation is no solution. It's time good, moral City people stood up to be counted

Groups contrast the speedy global response to the financial crisis with the 'shocking' delay in responding to food shortages in the developing world

Jacqui Smith says personal data from complex communication systems should be stored

Glasgow has just been rated by Lonely Planet as one of the world's top 10 cities. Here are your tips on where to stay, where to eat and drink and what to see

Look out for ghosts, spectres and unearthly goings on this halloween at one of these spooky lodgings - just don't expect a quiet night's sleep