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Dotun Adebayo with stories from around the world.

The Bahrain grand prix is still on, but protests against it are continuing. One of the demonstrators is a banker. Mohammed Sanad tells us the demos aren't about money, they're about dignity and the desire to get Bahrain to develop in the same way that Britain and other Western countries have.

The lending power of the IMF has doubled, as another $430 billion is promised from countries around the world. $15 billion of that will come from the UK. Irwin Kellner, the chief economist at Marketwatch, a financial news website, tells us that austerity doesn't work as it only takes countries further away from debt reduction, and says he's confident that people would still have faith in individual currencies if they came back.

127 people have been killed in a plane crash in Pakistan. The Bhoja Air jet came down as it tried to land near the capital, Islamabad. Greg Feith, a former investigator with the US National Transportation Safety Board, says crashes are more likely on planes like this which are more than 25 years old as they just don't have the technology of modern jets.

Remember record shops? Well today it's record store day in the UK. Up All Night's Jim Connolly explains how the day is being marked, and Iggy Pop tells us why record shops have always been important to him.

There's a new face on the World Football phone-in. Luke Moore joins us - he set up the Football Ramble blog. Dotun, Luke and the Legendinho Tim Vickery discuss diving, try to work out which football continent is best, and there's even a rendition of MC Hammer's "You can't touch this".