Business news 

Foxtons breaches banking covenants

Owners BC Partners said it would not put more cash into the estate agency unless lenders write off some of its £260m debt

Clifford Chance asks partners for £40 million

World's largest law firm makes capital call to seek an average of £100,000 from each of its 400 equity partners

Madoff ‘asked UK arm for £100m’ before arrest

Fund manager demanded money was transferred to US business weeks before allegedly confessing to $50bn fraud

Sport News 

West Ham face fresh Tevez inquiry

London club will again contest any accusation they acted improperly after fresh inquiry was ordered into Carlos Tevez affair

• Sheffield United win case over Tevez affair

• Tevez denies rejecting United deal

N'Zogbia hoping to quit Newcastle

Window watch: French midfielder says his agents are taking to Spurs and Villa, but Arsenal is preferred destination

White adds to exodus from Sale

Sale Sharks forward signs two-year deal with Clermont Auvergne as French rugby lures another top performer from the club

Comment 

Wanted: a superhero to save America

Barack Obama will need help from the rest of the world for his economic rescue to work

• Gerard Baker

Paralysed while the Hamas hydra lives

For Islamists in Gaza they are part of a global struggle not a battle to create a state

• Amir Taheri

Blind faith in experts fails justice

Professionals giving evidence in court are supposed to be independent not hired guns

• Camilla Cavendish

Life and Style 

Marriage? It's not worth the divorce

When her cheating husband walked out on one writer and her baby son, she grieved, raged... and wrote a book about it

Great writers on great food

The smell of garlic, the horror of raw egg, a perfect Bolognese... four leading American writers on unforgettable dishes

Jay Leno reviews the Ford Flex Limited

At first the Ford Flex made the comedian laugh. It looks like the designers built a Mini Clubman - except twice as big

Arts & Entertainment 

Vinyl's back! Life begins at 45rpm

Pete Paphides discovers why, although it isn't cheap, the pop, crackle — and soul — of vinyl are making a comeback

Getting personal with comic operetta Skin Deep

Once an opera-hater, Armando Iannucci tells why he has now written one about our obsession with the way we look

The award-winning - but quiet - wizard of Oz

John Lusk meets 38-year-old Gurrumul, the first Aboriginal superstar, who has sold more than 100,000 copies of his album