Eve Arnold's photographs won international
acclaim
. At five foot two inches tall, but tough and determined, she had a gift for putting subjects at ease. Assignment for Life magazine sent Arnold to China and Russia, to the McCarthy witch-hunt and a meeting led by the black Muslim leader Malcolm X, where a hostile crowd stuck lighted cigarettes in her sweater. Eve Arnold was never
detached
. When she was ill after photographing malnourished children in South Africa, a doctor said she was suffering from heart break. Her images were those of a passionate artist.
The president of the Swiss National Bank has denied any wrongdoing after allegations were made that he was involved in insider trading. Philipp Hildebrand has been accused of
benefiting from
a currency deal made by his wife last year. Here's Imogen Foulkes.
Today Philipp Hildebrand had some tough questions to answer: how much did he know about his wife's purchase of weak dollars with strong francs just days before he announced measures to devalue the franc and why does Switzerland's central bank allow its senior executives and their families to engage in currency transactions at all? And visibly nervous, Mr Hildebrand insisted he had acted correctly at all times and said resignation was not an issue as long as he had the confidence of the government, which he does for now.
Somalia's parliament has been thrown into confusion as MPs started fighting each other after arguing over the election of a new speaker. The BBC's East Africa correspondent says