South Korea cuts interest rates to a record low of 2.5%, as carmaker Ssangyong applies for bankruptcy protection.

Aid agencies say the already fragile humanitarian situation in the Gaza Strip has deteriorated dramatically since Israel began its military offensive, reports the BBC's Heather Sharp.

Thousands of protesters blockade Thailand's parliament, forcing new Prime Minister Abhisit Vejjajiva to delay his first policy speech and deepening the political crisis.

Leading Anglican bishops accuse the government of presiding over a debt-addicted country with a deepening wealth divide.

New Zealand and Fiji expel each other's top diplomats in a deepening row over Fiji's slow return to democracy.

About 40 million more people have fallen into hunger this year because of the global rise in food prices, a UN agency says.

Asian stocks dropped on Tuesday, following the global trend amid worries about deepening worldwide recession.

The Bank of Japan will hold an emergency meeting on Tuesday to tackle rising corporate borrowing costs amid Japan's deepening economic crisis.

The economic downturn deepens as two south Wales factories announce that a total of almost 600 jobs could go.

Graham Kavanagh's goal gives Carlisle a second successive home win and deepens Cheltenham's relegation fears.

The trial of three men over the murder of Russian reporter Anna Politkovskaya is postponed amid deepening controversy.

President Hu Jintao's presence at the Apec summit in Lima, and his visits to Costa Rica and Cuba, highlight China's deepening engagement with the region, says the BBC's James Painter.

Shoppers are increasingly turning to budget supermarkets in the search for food bargains as the slowdown deepens.

As Taiwan's financial gloom deepens, experts fear the trend for parents taking their lives and that of their children will rise further.

The worsening violence in Congo receives much coverage in Saturday's newspapers.

Shelter says more houses must be built in the South West to stop the housing crisis deepening.

BBC economics editor Hugh Pym explains how the government has racked up a record amount of borrowing that can only rise as the economic downturn deepens.

The Welsh assembly's presiding officer says a constitutional issue is at stake as a row deepens with MPs over housing policy powers.

The BBC's Jonathan Head looks at the deepening and increasingly impassioned political showdown in Thailand.

Newspapers around the world continue to worry about the deepening financial crisis.