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Malik Hasan ‘tried to contact al-Qaeda’

Fears of a terrorist link to the Fort Hood massacre are growing after claims that the gunman had links to a radical cleric

Thailand bans Thaksin interview with Times

Security agencies to take 'appropriate actions' against media organisations which report royal family remarks

Policeman pleads with Putin to end police corruption

The drugs trafficking investigator broke a code of silence with his allegations of police orders to jail innocent people

Business news  

Cadbury waits for Kraft to sweeten deal

Shareholders have indicated that they will wait for at least 800p per share in a saga that could continue for months

Sterling at three-month high against dollar

Pound rises after Bank of England voted to extend QE while dollar dips amid expectations that US interest rates will remain low

Bankers will have to prove their ethics

The FSA is setting higher hurdles of integrity which banking candidates must clear before they can assume top posts

Sport News  

Ferguson's rant masks United's deficiencies

Oliver Kay, our Football Correspondent, on the Scot's reaction to Chelsea's win at Stamford Bridge

• Sir Alex Ferguson screams blue murder

• Defeat at arch-rivals hits Ferguson hard

Haye cuts Valuev down to size

New champion’s cat-and-mouse tactics pay off handsomely with majority points decision over 'Beast From The East'

Broad fires warning to ECB over player burnout

Bowler warns that key players in the England team should be told to rest against weaker nations such as Bangladesh

Comment  

Would you live on the wrong side of the Berlin Wall?

It is becoming fashionable to prefer stability to democracy. The oppressed will never forgive us for such world-weariness

• David Aaronovitch

The laws that stain Britain’s good name

Libel tourism isn’t just a matter for the media elite. Freedom of speech for everyone is in danger

• John Kampfner

Graveyard of empires could claim more careers

It is Gordon Brown feeling the heat over Afghanistan now, but the Tories too must decide if this is a war worth fighting

• Rachel Sylvester

Life and Style  

How Remembrance Day brought home our loss

First World War families had no funeral rituals like those in Wootton Bassett. November 11 was a day to air their grief

Would you let your child wear one of these?

Coloured “shag bands” supposedly signifying sex acts are the new children’s craze. Are campaigners right to want a ban?

What makes the perfect mum?

A Demos report has moved the goalposts for mothers again, reporting that tough love is the best. But children disagree

Arts & Entertainment  

Dieter Rams: man who shaped our world

So you think the iPod is cool? Tom Dyckhoff meets the man who designed the first hi-fi more than 50 years ago

Anvil and Saxon

Anvil’s brand of lewd, crude, thrash metal is winning over the fans while Saxon remain the dray horses of heavy rock

The Line and Suzanne Valadon’s brush with Degas

In The Line at the Arcola Theatre, Timberlake Wertenbaker dramatises the love between Edgar Degas and his protegee