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• Alistair Darling's shocking admission: British economy is at a 60-year low - and it's only going to get worse
• So how did Michael Jackson spend his 50th birthday? With cake and cartoons
• EastEnders knife murder leads to 134 complaints
• Spurs are nowhere near Arshavin asking price, insists Zenit coach
• MAIL COMMENT: Is there any substance to Obama's style?
• Scholes' red card madness hits United's Champions League defence
• Amy Winehouse facing legal action after she pulls out of another concert
• And now for the bad news: Mad Mullah of the Traffic Taliban changes his mind about retirement
• On this day - August 30
• Scholes red card adds to misery for Fergie's super flops
• PETER MCKAY: Obama is the young, black, family man with a tear-jerker past - but is he really The One?
• Israel ready to attack if Iran goes nuclear
• Sporting Birthdays - August 30
• Keothavong's out of the US Open but shows she is fit for the big league
• George Osbourne calls on Darling to cut taxes to stop UK firms fleeing the country
• How tiny 'handbag' dogs are being bred in conditions of horrific cruelty
• The website that lets you find out where your family came from online
• Land Rover puts the breaks on production as the credit crunch bites
• Keothavong aiming for top 50 despite straight sets U.S Open defeat
• Judges attack Home Secretary over Briton's claim of U.S. torture
• If you fancy pimping your mobility scooter or getting a purple rinse, here's a book you might want to read ...
• Tottenham trail Argentinian Olympic gold medalist Pareja of Anderlecht
• Fears more airlines will fold after Zoom collapse
• £36million for free sports training to find 2012's Olympians
• Stoke City's studious midfielder Olofinjana does the drill
• AMANDA PLATTELL: Spitting in the face of the country that saved him: A lawsuit thats bad for relations
• Is Harris Tweed about to weave itself into the annals of history?
• Nuclear leak sparks warning not to eat fruit and vegetables or drink milk produced locally
• Blackburn agree fee for Northampton goalkeeper Bunn
• O'Neill delighted to be the big spender as Milner joins the trophy hunt at Villa
• Thrilled Lisa is evicted from Big Brother to share a reunion with fiancé Mario
• Graham Poll - The Official Line: Did Eboue's 'previous' sway ref?
• Met chief Sir Ian 'could lose his job' over £105,000 Olympics contract
• Now it's the citizen snoopers: Councils recruit unpaid volunteers to spy on their neighbours
• Shaun glad to find his way home after completing Eastlands switch
• Bolton Wanderers close to signing Racing Santander striker Ebi Smolarek
• Fergie's super flops! Scholes sent off as United crash to Zenit
• Newcastle's move for Hamburg's Atouba put in the balance
• Testing times: Retiring head calls for a 'fundamental rethink' of the education system
• Former BBC comedy boss killed in road accident
• The woman who inherited £9m... and then gave it all away
• So does THIS photograph prove Abu Qatada is flouting his bail?
• Kenyon set to fly to Madrid as he fights to bring Robinho to Chelsea
• Jamie Oliver to abandon school dinners crusade because of 'too much stick'
• Capello accepts Gerrard's England absence, says Liverpool boss Benitez
• Tough-tackling Olsson on way to West Brom for £800,000 from NEC Nijmegen
• Just how will you dress for hard times?
• Killers and rapists 'getting off with soft sentences'
• Everton take a gamble on United crock Saha after Fergie urges him to leave
• From rugby league to Premier League, prepare for Hull versus Wigan
• Arsenal boss Wenger tells fans to lay off striker Emmanuel Adebayor
• Karadzic refuses to enter war crimes pleas at UN tribunal
• That Keane tackle still haunts Haaland after horror injury in 2001
• Platini: I don't hate the English... it's the cheating I can't stand
• One-day wonders: Pietersen revolution powers England up rankings
• Woodgate blasts Berbatov as the Bulgarian's Old Trafford switch inches closer
• Depth a problem as Lloyd is forced into Davis Cup gamble with Bogdanovic
• Blackburn boss Ince hoping fans will curb abuse on return to West Ham
• PETER OBORNE: Recession and the disturbing lesson of history from a Prime Minister in denial
• It's not love actually: Just what was it that drove Bill Nighy and Diana Quick apart?
• Liverpool target Barry out to upstage his admirers in crunch Villa Park clash
• Really Wild Cards as Monty and Poulter at war over Nick's Ryder Cup picks
• It's Kate v Kate: Battle begins for Fiona's spot on the GMTV sofa
• Runaway Mears is 'finished' at Derby after Marseille trial
• Diana's favourite luvvie: Richard Attenborough on the people he's met during a remarkable life
• American Formula 1 ace Phil Hill dies aged 81 in California hospital
• Turner's Earners - Saturday: Stoute plans Gala day on way to £2m
• Was Caligula the greatest con in Hollywood history?
• ROBERT HARDMAN: The importance of Tower Bridge and how I managed to lift 2,000 tons of road
• Great Britain boost confidence with win over Bosnia before qualifier
• Gemmill nutmeg still grates with Southampton boss Poortvliet
• Mother's pleas after burglars steal precious gold medal footage of son's Beijing triumph
• Lynch set to start new Stateside career with ride at Philadelphia Park
• Don't deny our footballers this golden chance
• Everton chief Moyes insists Toffees cannot compete with Big Four
• Hatton is rocked by the loss of guru Kayes before clash with Malignaggi
• Down boy - or I'll have to get you neutered
• BHA facing legal fight with owners over Jack Junior stall row
• Judge admits he is frightened of being on the streets late at night
• Trim king Keiron could leave Hull puffing in the Challenge Cup final
• Dean Windass: To Hull and back - New faces in our bid for the X-Factor
• Baggies closing in on Swede Olsson after having £800,000 bid accepted
• Pietersen eyes a whitewash after England wrap up series win with crushing defeat of South Africa
• Cocaine, trampolining topless models and Martinis with Elton - Duran Duran, the wild boys of pop
• Regular gym visits 'can wear out your hips in middle age'
• Mystery of Atouba's Newcastle switch as defender fails to travel for medical
• Ferrari announce death of America's first Formula One champion
• Sunderland manager Keane prepared for 'good old battle' with City
• Out of control: Rhys Ifans' VERY wild night in Ibiza
• Watch out Robbo! Ince brings promising keeper Bunn to Blackburn
• I felt such a swine eating my (porcine) friends Podge and Rodge - but they were so tasty
• PICTURED: The killer orca whales who will attack their own for the sake of a good meal
• Schoolgirl smashes the world record as she lets 25 snails slither across her face
• Bel Mooney: Help me choose between my wife and my mistress
• Ready-to-ride
• Vicar guilty of downloading pornographic images of young girls is jailed for a year
• Muslim man jailed for eight years for stabbing to death his neighbour - a BNP-activist
• Binmen spark outrage by taping giant golliwog to the front of their truck
• Mother dies after family-of-three involved in horror 200ft plunge off mountain in Lake District
• Liverpool fans launch savage attack on Gillett and Hicks for stadium delay
• Spurs chief Comolli defends his record as Pavlyuchenko arrives for medical
• WEST HAM v Blackburn: Skipper Lucas set to return against former club
• Sunderland v MANCHESTER CITY: Kompany set to be recalled
• Teaching children about the Holocaust breeds racism, claims shocking new report
• ARSENAL v Newcastle: Gallas, Walcott and Nasri passed fit
• Dramatic pictures reveal damage caused by mid-air explosion on Qantas jet - and how passengers were lucky to survive
• United pull 'injured' Hargreaves out of Super Cup to end his England hopes
• Middlesbrough v STOKE: Pulis likely to field unchanged line-up
• Man City bid for Neves may fall flat as Fluminense pull out stops to keep him
• Wenger blast: 'Teams in debt should be kicked out of Europe'
• Fresh pictures of arson mansion family following discovery of two bodies
• So in love: Justin and Jessica lock lips in the street
• CHELSEA v Spurs: Ballack and Essien facing battle to be fit for derby
• Revealed: McCain's running mate as a young beauty queen
• Oil price powered by hurricane fears
• Furious Schuster threatens to quit Real if £29m-rated striker Robinho is sold to Chelsea
• Chelsea v SPURS: Hutton out and Ramos ponders recalling Berbatov
• Black Wednesday fears grow as pound plunges to lowest value in 16 years
• THE INSIDER: Villa keep a close eye on Fellaini... Hunt linked with Everton... Walters stepping up... Giant striker Zigic set for Spain... Zabaleta a City boy
• Coloccini, Healy and Wright-Phillips: transfer deals that could quickly sour
• Thousands of love-struck Brits learn Polish - so they can speak to their immigrant partners
• EVERTON v Portsmouth: Sorensen could feature but new signings Saha and Segundo Castillo must wait
• New Star drops as stockpickers lose touch
• Father stabbed to death on his doorstep by a mental patient as he waited for his children to return home from school
• After losing to Liverpool, Standard Liege take on Everton in the UEFA Cup
• Twelve million more households face soaring fuel bills as two energy giants join the great price hike
• HULL v Wigan: Boateng losing battle to be fit
• Iran takes nuclear programme out of experimental stage with 4,000 atomic fuel producers
• Hull v WIGAN: Kirkland back after recovering from back spasm
• EC probe into BA's 3-way tie-up
• Energy giants complete fuel price rises
• Pictured: Great-grandmother, 92, lies down in front of traffic to fight post office closure
• Last female veteran of the First World War dies aged 109
• Children to get five hours sport a week in new Olympic era in bid to open up competition
• Crops under threat as parasites kill off a third of Britain's bees
• Billionaire Tory party treasurer faces Britain's biggest divorce settlement after split from wife
• Arsenal v Newcastle: Barton could make a surprise return
• Keegan in Milner U-turn as Newcastle boss insists: 'It was my decision to sell'
• West Ham v BLACKBURN: Warnock returns but Dunn doubtful
• Man who doused cheating partner in petrol and turned her into 'human fireball' is jailed for 14 years
• Chelsea target Robinho has been badly advised, says Real president Calderon
• Bolton v WEST BROM: Record signing Valero ready for Premier League bow
• Reading defender Sonko joins newcomers Stoke in £2.5m deal
• First university 'sexanomics' course arouses massive interest from applicants
• Travel pictures of the week
• Watching Coronation Street is officially bad for your health, according to experts
• Flu jab that costs £115m a year does not cut death rate in elderly
• SUNDERLAND v Manchester City: Malbranque doubtful and Ferdinand must wait for debut
• 'Fagin' who raked in £100,000 by paying children to raid security vans faces jail
• Domestic goddess Nigella Lawson really does sees life through rose-tinted glasses
• When Will There Be Good News?
• Arson mansion tycoon is 'living in Europe after torching £1.2m home', says ex-associate
• BOLTON v West Brom: Cahill banned but trio return for Megson
• The unwelcome hat-trick that Spurs boss Ramos must avoid
• Good To Be God
• Murray to lead Britain's charge against Austria in Davis Cup tie
• O'Neill gets his man: Long-term Villa target Milner leaves Newcastle for £10m
• Pictured: The curious young cow who got into a spin after getting her head stuck in an old washing machine drum
• Right side of the track
• Two Ladies cause a crimewave: The Birthday Party by Barbara Vine & The Private Patient by PD James
• The boozy father, the secret wife, the sugar daddy: The outrageous story of Craig Revel Horwood
• MIDDLESBROUGH v Stoke: Turnbull expected to keep his place
• Ince will take heat off Curbishley as he returns to cauldron of hate at West Ham
• Town to spend £1m on free weight loss classes for 10,000 residents
• Seventy years of armchair expertise: TEACH YOURSELF
• Black-eyed bruiser Kelly Osbourne 'slaps girl clubber in the face'
• Big Brother losers team up for a night out in London
• Costume crazy! We bring you the lowdown on the latest crop of period dramas
• Selling your house in a slow market
• Divorce rate drops to lowest in 26 years as credit crunch forces couples to stay together
• Victoria Beckham cooked husband David the only recipe she knew for four years... minced meat
• Everton v PORTSMOUTH: Redknapp to make late decision on Defoe
• Jail for Wren who cried rape after seducing her former lover
• Capital gains as Etuhu snubs Sunderland offer in £2m Fulham switch
• Flushing out the world's dirty secrets: The Big Necessity by Rose George
• Exeter University gardener goes bananas over exotic fruit crop
• ASTON VILLA v Liverpool: Rafa's top target Barry set to face Reds
• The Office and Ugly Betty star Ashley Jensen: I'll never slim for Hollywood
• Time to end Ince hate campaign, says Redknapp amid increased security
• Peaches Geldof's husband's LA gig marred by 'collision with a cyclist'
• Only two in three babies born in England and Wales are white British
• Arsenal skipper Gallas loses Respect for 'frustrating' referee campaign
• Have-a-go hero grandfather fights for his life after he is 'repeatedly run over' by burglars in getaway car
• Jail for charity accountant who stole £700,000 before turning himself in to police
• 'I'm sorry, but I'm no choirboy', says Last Choir Standing presenter Nick Knowles
• Great reads that hit the target :CRIMEWATCH - Summer Round-up
• Aston Villa v LIVERPOOL: Mascherano set to replace injured Gerrard
• Publisher Bloomsbury banking on Buffett blockbuster
• Riera heads for medical at Liverpool after agreeing move from Espanyol
• EXCLUSIVE: Espanyol's Zabaleta turns down Juventus to join City for £6.5m
• Office giant Regus quits UK for Luxembourg
• Boozy blooms: Drop of brandy sees these sunflowers rocket to 13ft
• How hot is great £33bn Indian takeaway?
• Give cervical cancer jab to teenage boys 'to stop disease spreading'
• HATCHET MAN: Chelsea's arrogance over Robinho is breathtaking
• Bradford & Bingley crashes into red and bad debts rocket
• Everton's Moyes wants to hijack £10m Milner move from Newcastle to Villa
• The time of their lives? You bet. Dirty Dancing is back on TV and steamier than ever
• Russia's Pavlyuchenko flies in to sign for Spurs as Berbatov says his goodbyes to team-mates
• War of the Women's Institutes: WI 'Lite' angers traditionalists by offering sex therapists and naked male models
• HATCHET MAN: Jewell cracking under the pressure at Derby
• She's got the X Factor: Why Cheryl's top of the pop show
• Get leaner and fitter to climb out of this
• Dirk's good life - with bad spelling: EVER DIRK edited by John Coldstream
• Death threats sent to diving partner of British teenager Tom Daley after Olympics flop
• Danielle Lloyd is going up in the world as she shows off her £8,000 Fendi bag
• Saha agrees move to Everton but must prove his fitness for deal to go through
• Dancing On Ice star Suzanne Shaw to marry months after saying 'I won't'
• It was either quit my job or lose my man, says Denise Van Outen as she quits radio show
• Mobile call receivers face charges
• HATCHET MAN: What makes Liverpool's American owners think they will be immune to the worldwide problems?
• England v South Africa: Patel takes five wickets as England win by 126 runs to take series
• Crisis plan for property as crash feared
• Brown ushers in new era of council houses with councils given powers to buy repossessed properties
• Swiss clean out S Africa Krugerrand coin maker
• Orange appeal: Light up your garden with fiery hues that compliment the late summer sun
• HATCHET MAN: Ramos will need to a team of interpreters at Spurs to pass on his team talks
• Credit crunch hits Gillett and Hicks as Liverpool's Stanley Park plans delayed
• Awwight your madge-esty: Katy Brand gives The Queen a cockney makeover
• Sneak peek: Foxy morons Selma Blair and Molly Shannon in America's take on Kath & Kim
• Another 1200 jobs may be axed at Lehman
• As Per usual, transfer fee is the issue with Keegan's £6m target
• HATCHET MAN: What a travesty United's mean defence won no gongs in Monaco, when Terry and Cech (!?) were honoured
• Brothers, aged 8 and 11, refused children's meals at restaurant for being 'too tall'
• Chef Tom Aikens closes his 'smelly' fish shop after battle with environmental health chiefs
• Father crushes son, 6, to death by accidentally running him over with JCB
• Regus joins the rush to quit UK
• Spurs boss Ramos set to pounce for Sporting Lisbon's Veloso
• Piers Morgan: Why I had to tell my kids I did drugs
• Madrid get Real shirty and stun Chelsea with U-turn over Robinho's £29m move
• That's one swell of a doggy paddle: The hilarious video of Labradors learning to surf
• Madonna's away... but does she know Guy has taken the kids down the pub until 10pm?
• Teenagers could enjoy exam 'gap year' by taking GCSEs early
• Stars come out for Obama as Hollywood moves to Denver for candidate's historic speech
• Oil services
• Spurs keeper Gomes thanks Scolari for giving him his big break
• Amazon rainforest was once a hive of urban activity
• Neil Diamond offers refund to fans after raspy performance
• High Street in the vice of recession
• £3.5m Bloomsbury puts faith in Buffett
• UK economy: Darling to get out red pen
• That's one way to avoid sweaty armpits: Now Jennifer Lopez plays it safe in a sleeveless frock
• Chaos for thousands of holidaymakers as budget airline Zoom goes bust
• Berbatov is a 'big sulker' and will be a 'nightmare' for Sir Alex, claims Segers
• Credit crunch pain hits £5m homes
• August 29: What the back pages of the papers say
• A round-up of the newspapers: Friday
• Mobile phone users 'will have to pay to receive phone calls'
• Son of Blue Peter boss hanged himself eight months after father was sacked over phone vote scandal
• Premier Foods in a debt pickle
• Aer Lingus warns losses will hit hard
• One is an anarchist: Johnny Rotten turns country squire for TV butter ad
• Life imitates art: Californication and X Files star David Duchovny in rehab for 'sex addiction'
• Suffolk Strangler angers victims' families by telling them: 'I feel sorrow and heartfelt pain for your loss'
• Firms fear Russian grip on UK energy
• Revealed: The reason why so many breast cancer patients suffer relapses
• Organic food sales fall 20%
• Give carers £110 a week wages, MPs demand
• North-South divide 'widest for 60 years'
• B&B crashes into red and bad debts rocket
• Cheryl and Ashley Cole put on a show of togetherness as they go 'Into The Hoods' with George Sampson
• Gaddafi son accuses Lockerbie families of being 'very greedy' for seeking compensation
• Thousands in chaos as Zoom is grounded
• Is there actually a love reunion for Bill Nighy and his estranged partner of 27 years?
• Market report: Friday close
• Yesterday's trading: FTSE buzz gives a boost
• Obama launches his historic bid to become America's first black president ... and tells 80,000 supporters: It's time for change
• On this day - August 29
• Sporting birthdays - August 29
• Major overhaul of GCSE system makes it harder to cheat - and easier to pass
• Prince Harry 'urges Army bosses to let him return to Afghanistan front line'
• She may be dressed as an angel but Victoria Beckham forgets to clean her ears
• Property crisis paves way for new era of council housing
• Boomtime for threatened bitterns as they enjoy best nesting season for 130 years
• North-South divide under Labour 'is the widest for 60 years'
• Obama's promise: 'I'll cut tax, end dependence on foreign oil and get the U.S. out of Iraq'
• How the Premier League clubs will fare in this season's Champions League