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Grieving mother accepts Brown's apology

Jacqui Janes says she was not manipulated into attacking the Prime Minister - she just wanted him to say sorry

Knife murderers to serve at least 25 years

Minimum terms for knife and gun murder will be brought closer after review prompted by family of Ben Kinsella

Beltway sniper to be executed tonight

Muhammad and his teenage accomplice Lee Boyd Malvo killed ten people and wounded three in random shootings in October 2002

Business news  

Ericsson axes 700 staff and shuts Coventry site

Swedish telecoms group will cut 17% of its UK workforce and scale back its research and development headquarters

Trade deficit balloons on car and oil imports

Britain's goods trade deficit widens from £6.1bn to £7.2bn in September to the biggest gap since January

Barclays restores dividend as profits triple

UK's second largest lender, which has refused taxpayers' bailout funds, see profits grow on strong investment banking

Sport News  

Torres to miss three more weeks

Another blow to injury problems for Liverpool as Glen Johnson admits club's form is "awful" after Birmingham draw

• Benítez mired in state of disbelief at Anfield

• Ngog and Liverpool caught in ‘cheat’ row

Poyet confirmed as Brighton manager

Former Chelsea midfielder agrees a contract until end of next season, with Mauricio Taricco named as assistant manager

Back on our feet after defeat

Jonny Wilkinson says that he took heart from positive attitude of his team-mates to improve after losing to Australia

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 daughter wear a "shag band"?

Coloured bracelets supposedly signifying sex acts are the new children’s craze. Are campaigners right to demand 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