• JD Sports and Jessops sales rise

  JD Sports and Jessops offer a glimmer of hope from the High Street, saying sales were up on last year.

• Interest rates hit all-time low

  The Bank of England cuts rates to 1.5%, the lowest level in its 315-year history, as it continues efforts to help the economy.

• Madoff 'had cheques ready to go'

  Bernard Madoff had $173m in cheques in his office desk, ready to send out at the time of his arrest, US prosecutors say.

• The Future of Apple

  L.A. Times' Michael Hiltzik on blue chip company and its frail-looking CEO.

• Bailout on Ice

  What will be done with the $350 billion in frozen assets?

• CES: Yahoo unveils TV plan

  Jan. 8 - Yahoo Connected TV got a boost of publicity at CES 2009 as Yahoo unveiled a list of HDTV partners.

  
  
  

“No other educational system in the world gives such a central role to the arts as the Waldorf school movement. Even mathematics is presented in an artistic fashion and related via dance, movement or drawing, to the child as a whole. Anything that can be done to further these revolutionary educational ideas will be of the greatest importance.” - Konrad Oberhuber, Professor of Fine Arts, Harvard University

“We could have saved a lot more of our people if only they had known that they were slaves.” - Harriet Tubman