The Guardian: Main section

Tories unveil low carbon plan in intervention which will attempt to rub salt into Labour's wounds

Proposed parliamentary changes released at same time as Heathrow and Equitable Life announcements

President's ageing Air Force One planes could be replaced with flagship French superjumbo

David Miliband and Rahul Gandhi sleep side by side on wooden cots in brick shack with mud floor

Majority of passengers using Heathrow in favour of third runway expansion

Heathrow package fell into place only after five-day battle and an eleventh-hour deal

Climate worries brushed aside as decision lets BAA push on with £8bn third runway

Key questions on Heathrow's third runway, from the government's case to carbon emissions

Tory government would embark on programme in which 'smart meters' would be installed in every home

Defence secretary says British troops are fighting in a mission 'fundamental to national security'

Ed Balls warns underachieving schools face takeover and vows to get tough on academies

Restaurants, takeaways and canteens may adopt 'traffic light' code to tackle Britain's obesity crisis

Inquest hears that Shaun Dykes suffered from depression and had recently split up with his boyfriend

Deal to buy paper looks to complete within days, while Lebedev also in talks over stake in Independent

Simon Hoggart: It's always embarrassing when an MP pretends to go berserk. There's something over-planned about it

Craig Goddard admitted killing his son after 'snapping', and will serve a minimum of 11 years

Amitabh Bachchan voices bitterness on blog over global recognition for Slumdog Millionaire

Globe winner nominated twice in Best Actress category, while Slumdog Millionaire gets 11 nods

The Guardian profile: Apple chief executive, Steve Jobs, is taking six months off because of illness

Ceasefire has been on debating table since Israeli offensive began, but with strict conditions

Hamas official vows vengeance for death of interior minister, Said Siam, as brokering talks continue

Israeli PM and his defence minister engaged in very public difference of opinion over strategy in Gaza

Who's who in Hamas: a guide to the party's leaders and their political backgrounds

Two eyewitness reports from those living on frontline of rockets in Gaza and Isarel

Guantánamo statement from next attorney-general signals break with Bush administration

Gulf state says it is seeking nuclear programme for energy, not to produce an atomic weapon

President-elect mixes personal and political in published missive to daughters Malia and Sasha

Former president fails to meet visiting dignitaries, appear on TV and publish his regular newspaper column

Simon Tisdall: Allies of Jacob Zuma seem prepared to stop at nothing to save him following a ruling that he should stand trial

South Korea's Yonhap news agency says youngest son will succeed leader, citing unidentified intelligence source

Enthusiast sets out to prove Africans' success in running can be matched in cycling

Nils Pratley: So many problems, so few candidates for front-line duty

CML says average deposit paid in November jumped to 18% of property's value

Policyholders could be entitled to compensation but payments may take up to two years

Margins squeezed at leading chains amid growing evidence that shoppers are curbing spending

Britain's biggest companies will struggle to refinance debts of as much as £210bn over next five years

Collapse will heap further pressure on banks' shattered balance sheets and could lead to property-firm failures

Interview: Ian Pegler's evangelical determination drags his roadside diner chain back from the brink

More stories from the business world

Financial regulator received warning as early as 1996, but failed to demand necessary evidence

Chris Tryhorn: Another day of turmoil for banking shares drives FTSE 100 down for seventh successive session

Simon Jenkins: From Vietnam and Iraq to Gaza today, history testifies that aerial bombing is an ineffective, intolerable military tactic

Hugh Muir:We will create 100,000 new jobs, said Gordon. Those who won't work will be shown the light

Libby Brooks: The new apprenticeship scheme is welcome, but strict steps must be taken to ensure it is not just employers who benefit

Mark Lawson: Critics are being urged to keep plots secret, but is ignorance really bliss for the viewing public?

Martin Kettle: When backed in a corner, ministers seem unable to make the right choices on tough issues and build alliances to support them

Today's corrections

Editorial: Britain's world-leading response to climate change has lived and died in a few weeks

Editorial: For all its tightfistedness with conventional narrative pleasures, The Prisoner is supreme drama

Colin Luckhurst: West Cornwall

From the archives, 16 January 1874: Joseph Arch is described in the Dictionary of National Biography as unequalled among English agricultural labourers

Response: The idea that Agas are inefficient and only for the middle class belongs to the past, says William McGrath

Letters: The decision to expand Heathrow seriously undermines the government's efforts to lead the way on climate change

Letters: The massacres in Gaza are the latest phase of a war that Israel has been waging against the people of Palestine for more than 60 years

Letters: Whether there are shoots or not, we do need even a very small injection of hope in the present economic gloom

Letter: Voice of America welcomes the BBC World Service to the Persian-language television market

Letters: I'm afraid our house never did have a turbine installed (Many home turbines fall short of claims, warns study, 13 January)

Obituary: Czech architect whose free-form designs revolutionised British building

Obituary: The last great figure in 500 years of Oxford University printing

Obituary:The suave Mexican star of Fantasy Island - and a memorable Star Trek villain

Royal Festival Hall, London
Conducting without a score, which some would consider foolhardy, Gatti takes huge risks, says Tim Ashley

Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art, Edinburgh
Funny, unsettling and a tremendous example of the imagination unleashed, finds Mark Fisher

Barbican, London
These Beijing dancers think over, under and outside the box, thinks Judith Mackrell

Memorial Hall, Sheffield
This is definitely the real Cole. He looks fabulous, hardly a day older than in 1984, says Dave Simpson

Astoria, London
As the last band, the Automatic, discovered before a diminishing crowd, the show wasn't really about the music, says Betty Clarke

Shunt, London
An installation of kinetic sculptures and an 'end of civilisation' cabaret don't impress Lyn Gardner much

There has been some new snow in the French southern Alps and the Pyrenees