Business news 

CBI and BCC urge rate cut for Britain

As central banks struggled to rebuild confidence the leading British business lobby groups called for a sharp rate reduction

Ofgem says 'unfair' market needs reform

Customers in remote areas, on pre-payment meters or those who pay by cheque are short-changed, says energy watchdog

Slow sales hamper BA-Iberia deal

Falling share price and declining passenger numbers have hit airline's negotiating position, according to some analysts

Sport News 

Portsmouth to meet AC Milan in Uefa Cup

Harry Redknapp's team will play the tournament favourites in the group stages of the competition and Aston Villa face Ajax

Capello takes hard line with clubs

England manager will reject overtures from Premier League counterparts to rest key players for two World Cup qualifiers

Ballesteros taken to hospital

The man who revived the fortunes of European golf in the 1970s and 1980s briefly lost consciousness after dizzy spell

Comment 

There's no future for prophets of doom

Those who are predicting the death of capitalism need new crystal balls

• David Aaronovitch

Shallow, fake... Palin's beyond parody

The kid-glove treatment of the Republican vice-presidential candidate is an insult to women

• Martin Samuel

New Labour family seethes with hatred

Not only is the future of the party as precarious as ever, there is still no sense of direction

• Rachel Sylvester

Life & Style 

End of the supernanny

The economic downturn means a bleak future for the luxury nanny market as families downsize their domestic staff

Tom Hurndall: his death was like a bomb going off

As a TV drama examines the killing of Tom Hurndall by Israeli forces in Gaza, his sister talks for the first time

Back to reality: the Fashion Month finale

With wearable clothes on Size 10 models in tough districts, Paris's closing shows seemed to acknowledge the real world

Arts & Entertainment 

The man who had nothing

Michael Landy consigned all he owned to landfill seven years ago, but now the artist has gone back to basics with pencil portraits

Warhol's sweepings from the factory floor

Andy Warhol's relentless self-obsession is on display in the artist's films, videos and ephemera at the Hayward Gallery

New York City is playing Mindgames with me

The cast of the off-Broadway play Mindgames are appalled to find that Ken Russell has never directed a play in his life