Occupy London activists have launched a group offering critical and informative guided tours of Britain’s most important financial centres.

Global union leaders have called on G20 leaders to convene an emergency Summit to regulate the markets and avert a world economic collapse.

Campaigners set to protest against huge cuts in jobs and services in the UK government spending review warn that poor people will be hit hardest.

Opinion is divided about how far the International Monetary Fund (IMF) has gone in its proposals for how to make the banks pay for the crisis, says Owen Tudor. For some, it has taken some unexpectedly radical steps forward, but for others it has not yet produced an adequate solution.