Home Secretary Theresa May comes second in first table to assess Britain's most powerful females

With Barclays still rocking from the Libor scandal, and more than £3bn wiped off its value, shareholders are unsurprisingly keen for an outsider to replace Marcus Agius, the outgoing chairman. The bank needs a clean break, not least so that it – and the Serious Fraud Office – can get to the bottom of the wrong-doing.

Two children in every school class are going hungry because their parents fail to provide proper meals, according to new research.

They have been described by his most irascible critics as "junk food", created by anonymous helpers and easy to reproduce. Yesterday, a bunch of primary school children had their own go at making Damien Hirst artworks.

Liam O'Brien joins the artist at a workshop for the Kids Company charity in London

Rebecca Adlington

This, the first British swimmer to win two Olympic gold medals in 100 years, is the ever-smiling face of the athletes who will, we're confident, make us all proud at London 2012.

A fabled beauty comes to town

If Cameron isn't careful, he will find that Miliband has painted a more coherent picture of the causes of the riots

The disorder of recent days has provoked a torrent of pontificating from the nation's opinion formers. Here is a sample from across the political spectrum

Coming from a working-class family and having lived for 20 years on a council estate, I beg to differ with your paper's analysis of the situation on Britain's streets.

A column in yesterday's Independent has caused widespread debate about the reasons behind the violence which has swept the country.