Shadow business secretary Kenneth Clarke calls the Lloyds TSB-HBOS merger a "disaster", and says government initiatives to get banks lending have failed.
AP - President Barack Obama, savoring his first major victory in Congress, said Saturday that newly passed $787 billion economic stimulus legislation marks a "major milestone on our road to recovery."
AP - Investigators say they are gathering pieces of the commuter plane that crashed into a home near Buffalo, killing all 49 people aboard and one person on the ground.
AP - A suspected U.S. missile strike by a drone aircraft flattened a militant hide-out in northwestern Pakistan on Saturday, killing 27 local and foreign insurgents, intelligence officials said.
The U.S. Senate has given the final OK to a $787 billion economic-stimulus package backed by President Obama, with Democratic Ohio Sen. Sherrod Brown returning to the Capitol from his mother's wake to cast the 60th vote in favor of it. In the House vote hours earlier, no Republicans voted in favor of the bill, and seven Democrats voted against it.
The pilots of a commuter airliner that crashed near a Buffalo, New York, airport discussed "significant ice buildup" on the plane's wings and windshields before plunging into a house, killing 50. The pilot apparently tried to pull out of their landing approach just before crashing, investigators said.
A former collegiate swimmer who was "full of promise and vitality." A South Buffalo resident remembered as the "rock" of her large family. A co-pilot two years out of college. Portraits are emerging of the 50 people who died when a plane crashed into a home near Buffalo, New York.