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Home Secretary 'powerless' to stop extradition

Alan Johnson unable to intervene and prevent the extradition of Gary McKinnon to the US on human rights grounds

Iran seizes Nobel winner's medal

Iran’s hardline regime has confiscated the Nobel peace medal and diploma of Shirin Ebadi, the human rights lawyer

Remorse keeps poppy scandal student out of jail

Philip Laing given community sentence as judge demands an end to culture of excessive drinking among university students

Business news  

Borders calls in administrators as rescue fails

Struggling bookseller places 1,500 jobs at risk after scramble to find a buyer fails and MCR, the insolvency firm, is called in

Water regulator bows to lobbying on price cuts

Ofwat has proposed that companies reduce bills by £3 a year, far below the £14 reduction that it originally outlined

Darling warns British unemployment will rise

CBI survey finds most traders optimistic on prospects for first time since 2007 after sales rise at fastest since then

Sport News  

Portsmouth appoint Grant

Former Chelsea manager agrees to succeed Paul Hart at Fratton Park and aims to win over doubters by saving club from the drop

• Grant weighs up mission impossible

• Grant 'offered manager's job at Portsmouth'

Ferguson to put striker search on hold

Manchester United manager has identified Luis Suarez as a target but will keep faith with Dimitar Berbatov for now

We're better than our results, says Benitez

Liverpool manager believes his team deserved to win many more games then they have this season

Comment  

The ghost of Robin Cook haunts Chilcot’s feast

In 2003 the irascible MP resigned over the Iraq war. His clarity of principle contrasts sharply with today’s grey fudge

• Ben Macintyre

Violence: let’s separate the men from the boys

Posters, T-shirts and education campaigns won’t do. Only robust child protection will break the cycle for boys – and girls

• Camila Batmangelidjh

Without maths we’re lost in a dark labyrinth

It’s the glue that binds scientific and artistic cultures. The language of number and symmetry is spoken everywhere

• Marcus du Sautoy

Life and Style  

Maybe it's time for men's lib

It's a dire time for the stronger sex. Men are in the firing line of sexism, too, so please stop the ‘dorking down’

No apology for Germany’s own Nazi victims

Countries are apologising for past wrongs. Yet many casualties of Hitler’s sterilisation programme feel ignored today

My year of swimming dangerously

It’s the sport most people say they would like to do more of, but what if you can’t swim? Colin Crummy takes the plunge

Arts & Entertainment  

The new generation of musicals

As Legally Blonde: The Musical opens, doomsayers predict that the musical is dying. But they’ve always said that

Four stars for Stewart Lee

What I like best is the way he brings a deeply-felt moral core to work that delights in playing with surfaces

Chris Wood's haunting folk

“I can’t write about anything that doesn’t move me,” says the down-to-earth Radio 2 Folk Singer of the Year