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European Council chief Charles Michel is moving to ban Ursula von der Leyen from talks deciding whether she keeps her role as the president of the European Commission.The two have been bitter rivals ever since 'sofagate', which saw von…

BOOK OF THE WEEKShakespeare: The Man Who Pays the Rentby Judi Dench (Michael Joseph £25, 400pp) Those who gladly left Shakespeare behind at school, believing the plays to be dusty and unintelligible, will now definitely need to think…

A student doctor and her husband have been accused of dismembering their eight-month-old daughter in Russia.The child died when father Yakov Maiboroda, 33, aimed a kick at his wife Anastasia, 23, during an alleged domestic dispute - but…