Lisa Bachelor: Anyone who has savings with Icesave or the other Icelandic bank that takes UK deposits, Kaupthing, might understandably be feeling a little jittery about the safety of their cash

If only ... making great art was as easy as Funny Games. John Patterson takes a leaf out of Michael Haneke's book. Just don't call him lazy

Peter Preston on press and broadcasting: Local news offices have been closed on the implied assumption that Britain is - and can be covered from - the metropolis

Barbara Ellen: It was the pictures of Carla Bruni photogenically snogging Sarkozy that made me wish they'd both just clear off back to France

Peter Preston on press and broadcasting: Denis O'Brien, who wants to take over Independent News and Media group, obviously thinks he can run it much better

John Naughton: When Apple boss Steve Jobs announced in 2001 that his company was going into bricks-and-mortar retailing, I thought he had finally flipped

Will Hutton: Britain does fiascos well and by any measure, the opening of BA's £4.3bn Terminal 5 was a corker

Duncan Mackay: Boycotting the Olympics would penalize athletes, not the politicians who have kow-towed to Beijing

Leader: Justice Secretary Jack Straw made exactly the right noises last week when he warned against the overuse of the prison system

John Gray: New superpowers are competing for diminishing resources as Britain becomes a bit-player. The outcome could be deadly

Jason Burke: The West believes that rising prosperity will be reflected in liberal values. Let's wake up

Leader: If China wants to be fully accepted as a major actor in the international community, then it has to behave as a responsible stakeholder in its actions

Victoria Coren: It was hard not to enjoy Hillary Clinton's 'misspeaking' last week

William Keegan: The US economy has long needed to cut its coat according to its cloth, and that means economic adjustment - although not unnecessary pain

Simon Caulkin: It's disappointing that after three generations of IT outsourcing, organizations still make the same mistakes

WrestleMania organizer WWE and Zenith Pyrotechniques, which set up the fireworks, are investigating the incident. The show was not canceled and continued Monday night.

An official of the Department of Defense (DOD) said Monday that the chief prosecutor recommended the death penalty for Ahmed Khalfan Ghailani of Zanzibar if he is proven guilty in a coming trial.

A five-alarm fire ripped through the Towpath Inn, which also houses the Dreams Restaurant and Bar, sometime around 4:00 a.m., disrupting Metra service into Chicago due to the proximity of the fire to the Metra's Lockport station. Metra officials advised

Gregg W. Bergersen, 51, entered his guilty plea in a District Court in Alexandria, admitting he provided unauthorized information on U.S. weapons sales to Taiwan between March 2007 and February 2008.

I said it would be harmful to the Democratic Party and our prospects in November if the perception is that the superdelegates overturned the votes of the people, and I believe that," Pelosi said in an interview with NPR.