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Dotun Adebayo with stories from around the world.

Two new stimulus packages have been announced by the Bank of England as the governor, Sir Mervyn King, says the economic outlook is getting worse. Banking expert Brett King doubts that the new plans will work - they had a similar idea in the States, but US banks just kept the cash instead of passing it on to American companies.

Tony Livesey is in the Falklands to mark 30 years since the end of the war between Britain and Argentina. We hear from Corporal Martin Margerison, who was part of the first land attack of the war, and Tony tells us about the commemorations which have been taking place. Plus Barbara Plett is at the UN where Argentina has been pressing its case over the islands' sovereignty.

The disgraced Texas tycoon Allen Stanford, famed for bankrolling cricket in the Caribbean, has been jailed for 110 years for running a $7bn Ponzi scheme. Kara Altenbaumer-Price, a lawyer and executive risk consultant in Texas, tells us some victims lost millions. She says Stanford will never be eligible for parole, so he'll die in prison.

And we hear from Lucy Lawless, who plays Xena the Warrior Princess. She's admitted taking part in a Greenpeace protest on board an oil-drilling ship as it was trying to leave a port in New Zealand. She could face up to three years in jail, but says she's just a normal middle class person who has to fight like a tiger to protect the future for her kids.