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Senator resignations heap pressure on Obama

Decisions by Byron Dorgan and Chris Dodd pose threat to Senate majority and legislative programme, including healthcare Bills

Christmas Day 'bomber' charged

Failed airplane bomber Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab charged with attempted murder and trying to use weapon of mass destruction

Polanski judge considers 'in absentia' sentence

Roman Polanski might be free by end of month after ruling by judge in Los Angeles over film director's 1978 sex crime

Business news  

OFT refers bus industry over poor service and prices

Competition Commission will investigate charges that a monopoly is preventing good value for British travellers

Turkey and trimmings boost Sainsbury's sales

Supermarket group reveals record customers for Christmas and a sales rise of 4.2% but food inflation continues to bite

M&S admits losing battle for Middle England

M&S has acknowledged that it had been eclipsed by John Lewis and Waitrose, which enjoyed a record Christmas

Sport News  

Chelsea have Iaquinta in their sights

Carlo Ancelotti is considering a move for Vincenzo Iaquinta, the Juventus and Italy forward

• Club-by-club guide to January transfer window

• Spurs on alert after Veloso impresses

Benitez feeling the squeeze at cash shortage

Liverpool unlikely to replace Ryan Babel even if the unsettled Holland winger is sold in January

Mosley says door will be shut on Briatore

No chance of former Renualt team principal finding way back into sport after overturning lifetime ban as FIA can change rules

Comment  

It’s not the economy – and voters aren’t stupid

Everyone understands that you cannot go on borrowing for ever. Gordon Brown must face reality or lose the election

• Anatole Kaletsky

Snow brings out the inner Tory in all of us

Resilience, resourcefulness ... words banned from the left-wing lexicon are now on unlikely lips

• Melanie Reid

Migration threatens the DNA of our nation

If we are to stop the extreme Right, we must respond to real fears over the number and nature of those coming to Britain

• George Carey

Life and Style  

Milk: do we need a dairy godmother?

As milk prices drop and British dairy farms go bust, the Tories want to create a supermarket ombudsman. Can consumers help?

DIY: the women doing it for themselves

Tired of power struggles over DIY, women are doing it for themselves. But is sharing the chores the path to relationship bliss?

Affair to remember: meeting an older man

Each week a reader recalls a love affair. Here a woman explains how a chance meeting led to the love of her life

Arts & Entertainment  

The story of Enron

The collapse of the American energy giant Enron led to that most unusual of creatures, the hit accountancy play

BBC denies Doctor Who 'anti-ginger' regeneration

Corporation issues statement after first words spoken by new Time Lord to 11m viewers included: 'I’m still not ginger'

Moira Stuart returns to the BBC

After the departure that sparked a row over sexism and ageism in 2007, Stuart is to join Chris Evans on BBC Radio 2