- World Bank lowers China forecast
The US Federal Reserve says it will buy $1.2 trillion worth of debt to help boost lending and promote economic recovery.
- Madoff accountant on fraud charge
The World Bank cuts its forecast of China's economic growth in 2009 to 6.5% from 7.5% because of falling demand for its exports.
- Oracle bucks gloom with dividend
US prosecutors charge the long-term accountant of disgraced US financier Bernard Madoff with fraud.

- Experts pin down exactly how much exercise you need to get fit
Remarriage fuels a boom in vasectomy reversal
- Chinese food 'fights breast cancer'
Moderate exercise is defined by experts as a minimum of 100 steps each minute for 30 minutes a day.
- Finn creates USB 'finger drive'
Mushrooms and green tea may ward off breast cancer, mounting evidence suggests.

- Web browsers battle at festival
A Finnish computer programmer who lost a finger in a motorcycle accident makes himself a prosthetic replacement with a USB drive attached.
- 'Twittering' threat to US trials
Opera says Microsoft is ignoring web standards and should use its position to promote competition among browsers.
- 'Super-fast' game download launch
The verdicts in two US trials are being appealed against because jurors commented on them on social networking sites.

- Double trouble
Marianne puts rock excess and health scares behind her
- Talking Shop
Bloodsucking roles for comedians Corden and Horne
- John Squire finds artistic way to deny Stones Roses reunion
Tony Christie on moving on from Amarillo

- St Patrick's Day treat for Simpsons fans
World number one Rafa Nadal survives five match points to defeat David Nalbandian 3-6 7-6 6-0 and reach the quarter-finals at Indian Wells Masters
- Motorbike crash victim gets wired with USB 'finger drive'
A special St Patrick's Day episode of The Simpsons premieres on this side of the Atlantic ahead of its broadcast on US network Fox for the first time in the channel's 20-year history.
- UK operator ordered to sell airports
The central bank of Iceland cuts its interest rate to 17% from 18%, the first cut since it agreed a $10bn deal with the IMF.

- Step out: Why you should strive for 100 steps per minute
Matt Frei, presenter of BBC World News America, asks whether President Obama has taken on too many issues at once.
- People with strong religious beliefs 'fight death the hardest'
You should be taking 100 steps each minute for half an hour a day if you want to achieve "moderate" exercise, a study shows.
- US arsonist 'should be executed'
People with strong religious beliefs appear to want doctors to do more to keep them alive as death nears, a study suggests.

- Canadian dig yields a meat-eating dinosaur the size of a chicken
Setting targets is easy, achieving them is not, so why do we continue to support a framework that has failed to deliver.
- Gravity satellite leads new wave
The smallest meat-eating dinosaur ever found in North America has been identified from six tiny pelvic bones.
- Dying bees 'were not a priority'
The Goce gravity mapping satellite is launched as part of what will become an armada of European Earth observers.