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  Tuesday 18 December 2007  

• Controversial Zuma wins ANC vote and is set to become South Africa's next president
• The campaign that passed the nation by
• From David Cameron to Paul Merton - the results of our poll to recognise Nick Clegg
• Scientist who claimed GM crops could solve Third World hunger admits he got it wrong
• Chelsea boss Grant urges FA to protect players
• Scissors is the 'psychological winner' out of rock and paper in playground game, scientists say
• The Blair legacy of cynicism and sleaze
• Capello will teach doubters a lesson
• Health warning over Nigella's express turkey
• The Turbo Toaster that can deliver breakfast in less than a minute
• Ballack set to make Chelsea return after eight months out
• Diana's revenge: Dodi affair was calculated to snatch attention from Camilla
• Bank of England chief Mervyn King denies 'low morale' jibe at Brown's Government
• Why I fear a recession may now be a very real possibility
• ITV rejects X Factor 'fix' claim by insisting: 'Leon had 10% more votes than Rhydian'
• Children who play unsupervised turn out fitter and more sociable, study says
• Stuff the shirt - Carragher won't answer Capello's England call
• Parking bosses cancel Christmas bonus for wardens... for fear of offence
• Harmison slowly getting back to his best
• BBC to buy homes from staff in £16m relocation bonanza
• 'Blunkett's bobbies' will get payrise backdated - but normal officers won't
• Ref Clattenburg wants a break
• January sales key to the future of Benitez
• Boro lose Mido for a month
• Bolton swoop for Alvez
• Like mother like daughter, Tara finds a toyboy lover just like mum Joan
• Osman's bad break is a blow for Everton
• One dart Peter Manley and Phil 'The Power' Taylor march on despite scares
• Kissing Kate: Girlfriend helps Prince William on freezing shoot and is rewarded with a kiss
• Machine-gun man takes over ANC - God help the Rainbow Nation
• The day Judi did a Judy and flashed more than she bargained for
• Wes Brown goes off to Toon
• It's just like watching your boy play for Brazil
• You won't find the next Alan Shearer or Joey Baa-ton here...
• Prince of Darkness still at war
• Three academies that work... and three that don't
• Kate and Gerry McCann are spared police questioning 'until after Christmas'
• Fabio? He loves the English fight, says arch rival Sacchi
• Theo's move to Arsenal is a cautionary tale for all youngsters, says the man who discovered him
• Towns cancel Midnight Mass over fears it would be disrupted by drunken thugs
• Curse of the ghost stories
• Pay-as-you-throw rubbish charge really IS a tax, admits minister
• Give them three weeks and they'll be plotting again...
• Wenger's Young guns shoot down Rovers to make last four
• Riddle of the Queen's bruised neck
• Funnell leads the way
• It's a Rum do for joker Lee Mack
• Ten-man Spurs break down fortress Eastlands
• Turner's Earners - Wednesday
• Lynch has green light to return
• WIN: Watch Kauto Star's challenge for King George in style
• Sven adds to his City foreign legion by wrapping up Castillo loan deal
• British believed to have killed two Danish soldiers in a 'friendly fire' attack in Afghanistan
• Peter Jackson to produce Lord of the Rings' prequel The Hobbit
• Arrest leaves troubled Amy Winehouse so drained she collapses in a car
• Magi-c of Christmas: Eerie image of magi projected onto a Merseyside wall
• CHELSEA v Liverpool: Blues handed Ballack boost
• Everton and Spurs told not to bother with a bid for Downing
• Burnley lose Gudjonsson appeal
• Outstanding: TA Private who single-handedly saved a friend and stopped the Taliban seizing a dead colleague's body
• Owls chief hopeful over new money
• Toyota teams up with Nintendo scientist to develop 'elderly-friendly' car
• Mother hid the body of her secret baby in a suitcase and lived with remains for 50 years
• Foxes boss Holloway ends interest in Plymouth duo
• Watford hope MPs can save Bangura
• Winger Burke wants to be a winter wonder with Rangers
• Ashton to stay on as England coach after favourable World Cup report from Andrew
• French President Nicolas Sarkozy wants Eric Clapton's ex Carla Bruni as wife No 3
• Nurse gave four-year-old MMR vaccine AGAINST wishes of parents
• Two prisoners make Shawshank Redemption inspired jail-break
• Briton who converted to Islam arrested by Kenyan anti-terror police after arms seized
• Wellens and Roby agree new long-term deals to stay with St Helens
• Teenagers fighting for lives after hair tongs explode in their bedroom
• Wigan bring Pryce back into the League fold after brief spell with Gloucester
• Now Revenue loses private pensions data
• We've got everything we need to qualify for Europe - Muntari
• Tozer could go out on loan - Magpies boss Allardyce
• Tories admit they received unlawful donations from ex-pat Britons
• The RAF ace who hitchhiked out of enemy territory after being shot down
• Brave five-year-old receives 50,000th kidney transplant
• Row as new diplomas for hair and beauty given same weight as 3.5 A-levels
• Foxy Knoxy breaks down during six-hour quiz over killing of Meredith
• Axe carrying man in royal crowd 'wanted to take Queen's photograph'
• I'm just not interested in Villa anymore, slams Sorensen
• Fabianski backed to shine as Jens' Arsenal future is in doubt
• McLaren hearing called off as FIA bring an end to spy saga
• Italian girl who died aged six is set to be made youngest ever saint by Vatican
• Girl claims she was raped at Manchester United Christmas party
• Man Utd star: 'Rape' victim's jealous boyfriend attacked me while I danced with her
• Blood pressure drugs may help Alzheimer's
• Arsenal manager Wenger escapes longer ban from UEFA
• Green light for Lynch in licence application
• Ainslie Olympic bid boosted by victory
• Lewis Hamilton Q & A - part 3
• Speeding Hamilton gets driving ban for doing 40mph... over the limit
• Could Britney Spears be set to marry for the THIRD time in another Vegas wedding?
• Inland Revenue loses personal data AGAIN leaving 6,500 pensioners in ID fraud peril
• Lewis Hamilton Q & A - part 2
• Pardew keen to keep City defender Mills
• Diana and Dodi 'were so smitten they felt invincible'
• Young mother condemned to die after doctors spend six months arguing about treatment funding
• Spiderman arrested after climbing 20-storey building without ropes
• Chelsea's Sinclair bides his time at the Bridge
• Bank relief as inflation steadies at 2.1%
• 'The joy of having a toyboy' by Joan Collins' daughter - who's got her own young lover
• Crystal Palace priced out of move for £1m Celtic star
• Petrov poised for Christmas comeback at Villa
• Fulham consider £2m bid for Pompey star Taylor
• Animal activists' anger after aquarium puts Santa hats on whales
• Spring flowers face extinction after blooming in autumn puts them at risk of frost
• I will do everything I can to beat Lewis, says McLaren team-mate Kovalainen
• Lewis Hamilton Q & A - the McLaren driver discusses the 2006-7 season and looks to the future
• The world's first climate change refugees to leave island due to rising sea levels
• Owen only 50/50 to return for Magpies clash v Derby County
• Benitez buoyed by talks with Liverpool owners
• Dishy pictures in the best possible taste...
• Capello can't let England stars outshine him, says Lippi
• Chabal says no to French return as he commits to Sale
• Jennifer Saunders tipped as the next Dr Who
• Blow for Everton as Osman ruled out until New Year
• This is what cigarettes do to you, warns anti-smoking campaigner hours before her death
• Credit crunch genius who hit £2bn jackpot
• Arsenal academy director Brady backs United for the title
• Short legs linked to liver disease
• Tottenham set to bid £6m for Rangers defender Hutton despite Gers wanting 'crazy money'
• PPI rules bolstered but misselling goes on
• Mother attacks £10,000 failed prosecution of son, 12, for throwing sausage at neighbour
• Curbishley: We'll never see English boss again
• Call for 10p plastic bag levy instead of ban
• BBC blows £120,000 on staff Christmas bash - as 2,800 workers face axe
• Police shoot dead two crime film actors after mistaking them for real armed robbers
• Anger over highest paid police chief on £260,000 despite retiring 6 months ago
• Valencia set their sights on £4m Liverpool defender Riise
• A year on: Simon Cowell loses his man-boobs for Christmas
• Hitman Bendtner wants to be top gun at the Emirates
• Two teenagers remanded in custody after 17-year-old murdered at railway station
• Lewis Hamilton banned from driving for doing 120mph in an 80 zone
• Mother exposes bankrupt newsman's claims
• Thomas Cook increases long-haul legroom by 3in
• 'UN has failed to improve Kosovo eight years after stepping in to halt ethnic bloodshed'
• Not quite down to the bare bones but Redknapp fears tough New Year with little to spend in January
• Huge explosion near oil depot 'is like Buncefield all over again'
• Newspaper and magazine share tips
• Teenage murderer should have been wearing an electronic tag
• Spice Girls for sale: Despite the hype, concert is NOT a sell-out
• Ramos, Ferguson, Benitez, Capello and Ancelotti up for UEFA coach of the year award
• 'Bubble boy', 3, develops leukaemia as side-effect to gene therapy
• Berbatov to face best friend Petrov, but the pair could have been playing together at Spurs
• Civil engineer attacked lawyer wife with chainsaw in their living room
• Wigan's Heskey set for a speedy comeback
• British children targeted with terror sing-along DVD for would-be suicide bombers
• Eriksson hoping chats with Spurs supremo Levy don't return to haunt him
• Doctor Who takes on The Stig in Top Gear racing challenge
• Flood of new-build flats hits buy-to-let
• Ramos: I like all my keepers but (stand-in) stand-in skipper Robinson is the very best
• Hammers and Toon target Gudjohnsen weighing up his future
• Sir Paul McCartney 'laps' up attention from attractive brunette
• After polio, a new condition now causes crippling pains... and doctors can't treat it
• Watchdog will probe Sky's grip on pay-TV
• Pound 'faces a battering by dollar'
• VT Group is going nuclear in a £75m deal
• New data blow puts 3m drivers at risk
• Capello on collision course with Premier League bosses over plans to spend more time with his players
• 'Turkish troops invade Iraq in bid to flush out Kurdish rebels'
• City focus: Scorching prices burn economy
• Activists chain themselves to railings in nationwide protests against 'unacceptable' treatment of asylum seekers
• Premier League Rumour Mill: Birmingham boss McLeish battles with Rangers for ex-Celtic striker Miller
• A round-up of the newspapers: Tuesday
• The new prima ballerina: What Emma Watson did next
• O'Hara listened and learned - Ramos delighted with his teenage star
• Coleman's postcard from San Sebastian No15: Ronaldinho has lost a bit of his sparkle
• More public cash put behind Northern Rock
• Britain 'to have complete 3G coverage by end of 2008' as mobile phone giants join forces
• Crackers banned from flights
• Carvalho returns to ease crisis at Chelsea
• Photo-Me investors get the negatives
• Ramos keeps his attacking options a secret as he bids for last four spot
• Being shy is NOT an illness - so why are we treating it with drugs?
• Russian roulette game we may all lose
• Sven ready to unleash fit-again Elano on Spurs in Carling Cup quarter-final
• Falkirk aiming to bring Norwich's Murray home
• FSA's legal scraps
• Russian billionaire eyes Birmingham move
• Star Wars: Incredible images as 'death star' black hole launches deadly attack on nearby galaxy
• What's your body's real age?
• Boro winger Johnson unlikely to join Spurs
• Embarrassed by incontinence? Now you don't have to be
• BoE officials facing wrath of angry MPs
• Chill winds on high street
• I'm happy to play anywhere to bring Tottenham glory, insists utility man Zokora
• Levein: Transfer talk won't both United captain Robson as Old Firm circle
• Hearts midfielder on the road to England Under 21 cap call - Pearce
• Soap star Beverley recovered quickly from a hysterectomy...then her hormones went haywire
• £11bn crisis fund to keep bank rates down
• Ex-Spurs boss surprised by Capello appointment - but insists the FA have got it spot on
• Monty throws England a lifeline
• Brown refuses to back second term for Bank of England governor
• BBC backs down over decision to bleep Pogues classic Christmas song which is 'offensive to gays'
• Binmen refuse to lift frail pensioner's rubbish over four-inch step
• Price cuts bring out Christmas shoppers
• Jol rules out new job by Christmas - because it would be with a struggling team!
• Yesterday's trading: Character exterminated
• Foreign visitors to get 'new' short-term visa... to go to football match
• Furious Huddlestone hits back at claims he's going back to Derby
• Maloney happy to fight for Villa place as Celtic target Mendy
• Market report: Tuesday close
• Nick Clegg crowned new leader of the Liberal Democrats
• 100,000 young Britons pushed into unemployment by immigrants
• Gordon Brown urged to renounce peerage rights by damning Westminster sleaze inquiry
• End of the line for Cuba's Castro? Fidel hints that it may be time to retire
• Illegal immigrant guarded the Home Office for 19 months
• Diana's inquest makes a mockery of justice and is an affront to human dignity
• A bad day that buried good news
• Viewers tell BBC they don't want 'downmarket' reality TV - but KEEP Strictly Come Dancing
• Will your Christmas dinner give you dandruff? The side effects of turkey with all the trimmings
• Karol Sikora Commentary: Why shouldn't cancer sufferer pay to prolong her life?
• It shouldn't add up but monkeys excel at mental arithmetic
• Benvenuto to a man who aims to restore pride in the shirt
• Cancer sufferer may sue over ban on top-up drugs that could prolong her life
• Amy Winehouse's dad Mitch blasts 'scumbag' Pete Doherty