recent posts in sidebar.php

What do I have to write, to get recent posts in my sidebar? I also want to style the recent posts links later.

I tried this:

<?php query_posts(‘showposts=10’); ?>

• <h2>Recent Posts</h2>

<?php while (have_posts()) : the_post(); ?>
• ‘><?php the_title(); ?>

<?php endwhile; ?>

But my page and post links stopped working! Looked like the page updated when you clicked the links, but the content (the posts) didn’t do anything!

Please help me someone!! I have to get this to work!

/Hans