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Miliband's last-minute trip fuels EU talk

Foreign Minister took flight to join leaders in Germany, increasing talk of an interest in High Representative role

Every home to get new bill for carbon-neutral coal

Government seeks to raise £9.5bn over the next 20 years to reduce emissions at new coal-fired power plants

British-born curator and daughter found murdered

Nick Waterlow and daughter Chloe stabbed to death in a house in Sydney. Three-year-old girl injured. Man aged 40 sought

Business news  

Barclays restores dividend as profits triple to £1.5bn

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

Vodafone doubles cost cuts to £2bn and eyes jobs

World's largest telecoms operator sees slide in revenues from its key UK market but overall trading hits forecasts

HSBC 'significantly ahead' as US debts slow

The banking giant reports its first fall in bad debt charges from its American consumer finance business since 2006

Sport News  

Gerrard's penalty rescues point for Liverpool

Liverpool 2 Birmingham 2: captain comes off bench to score equaliser controversially awarded after David Ngog dive

• Benítez mired in state of disbelief at Anfield

• Angry Ferguson cuts short question time

Haye no longer fights for right to party

Londoner insists that his clubbing days are over as he adjusts to life as newest heavyweight champion of the world

ECB airs worries over TV plans for Ashes

Return of live Ashes coverage to terrestrial television after 2013 would cost sport at least £120m, says officials

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