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• International Monetary Fund warns of global recession, 'most dangerous shock' to markets since 1930s
• 'I'm just grateful to be here,' says Travis Barker in first interview since plane crash which killed four
• Push to expand school place lottery to stop middle-class parents buying homes close to the best ones
• ALEX BRUMMER COMMENT: An end to the cold war in the credit markets
• Terrorist who survived SAS storming of Iranian Embassy to be free in days... for a life on benefits
• PETER OBORNE: Day that Britain changed forever
• My lust for window sills: From semis to stately homes, HARRY MOUNT is in awe of the architectural quirks that reveal so much about British character
• The ultimate in glamour: How to give yourself a 'Joan-over'
• 'Survival of the fattest': Which banks will withstand the crisis
• Family doctors working fewer hours for their 58% pay rise
• Accessories:
• MAX HASTINGS: Afghanistan is Operation Futility unless we talk to the Taliban
• QUENTIN LETTS: Mr Cameron blushed. Labour MPs yabber-dabber-dooed
• HBOS takes £440million loss as it sells Australian division to Commonwealth Bank of Australia
• ALEX BRUMMER ANALYSIS: So will it save the banking system?
• ING Direct to acquire £3billion in British savings through Kaupthing and Heritable
• STEPHEN GLOVER: Ten reasons why we can look on the bright side
• Hammers fear as Icelandic owner loses £360m in banking collapse
• How Cipriani could take Wilkinson's crown ... if his hunger for celebrity doesn't destroy him
• Land of Leather unseated by profit plunge
• Celtic great Auld: The bigoted thugs have turned Glasgow city streets into no-go area for our Old Firm stars
• RICHARD LITTLEJOHN: £170,000 spent on an Afghan single mother... A story that sums up the howling insanity of modern Britain
• Analysis: How the turmoil will hit YOUR pension fund
• Sort out your debt or face Europe ban, Premier League clubs told
• Met 'were not trained to deal with failed suicide bombings at time of de Menezes shooting'
• Former Celtic director Haughey is surprise Scottish Cup sponsor
• Woolworths promises business as usual to nervous investors
• Solvent Bundesliga clubs an example to debt-ridden Premier League
• Spurs: We'll banish Sol Campbell's tormentors for life
• MAIL COMMENT: Desperate times... for both Britains
• No escape from the new generation of speed cameras that follow you for 30 miles
• Van der Sar: My decision to play for Holland is a 'one-off'
• Sainsbury's wobble over tycoon Robert Tchenguiz's stake
• Alcohol price must rise to save lives, say doctors
• BBC's £500,000 legal bill for fertility clinic investigation
• Pictured: The moment a grandmother, 101, is smuggled out of care home so officials could shut it down
• Captain crock: Blow for Capello as injury jinx returns to haunt Terry
• 'My success intimidates men', says Shirley Bassey as she vows to remain single
• Why do men make women adopt their vices (and why do we let them do it?)
• It's all or nothing as Scots boss Burley faces crunch test against Norway
• Barclays moves to boost its capital base before seeking rescue fund cash
• Shaun's happy: City return rejuvenates Chelsea's reject
• Sheffield officials confident of keeping hold of World Snooker Championship
• Rio echoes cautious Capello: Croatian hype won't go to our heads
• Metric martyr trader gets criminal record for selling fruit and veg by the pound on stall set up by mother during the Blitz
• Hugh's that guy? House star Laurie is mobbed by fans as he gets a parking ticket
• Burley believes stand-in skipper Fletcher can become a centurion
• Rate cuts fail to control rollercoaster ride over recession fears
• High SWOON Musical: How Zac Efron has whipped teenage girls into a frenzy
• Olazabal has low hopes as he prepares for third career comeback in Madrid
• Radcliffe will return for a day by the seaside in Great South Run
• Goodbye my beloved boys: The moving diary of a dying mother's last months
• Hamilton to keen to see gas guzzling curbed... don't mention the private jet
• Dances with whales: The orca synchronised swimmers
• Cycling legend Armstrong given all-clear to make his comeback by UCI
• Death in a winter paradise
• Caborn and Co are causing Cup upset
• Smith makes 'mature' Gleeson his England captain
• Rampant Rabbi: Seven wives, eight children and one very happy 'messiah' - meet Britain's most unorthodox family
• Fighting back with Freddie: Flintoff on his return to the big time
• I'm watching you, son: Police Minister's father (with 30 years in the Met) demands more bobbies on the beat
• We won't pull our punches for Cipriani at Wasps, says Edwards
• 'How I weaned my son off Ritalin and proved discipline IS better than drugs'
• Bellamy blasts anti-Welsh bias as he prepares for first game in nearly a year
• When Danny met Lewsey: What made the fur fly? Matt Dawson explains...
• Rangers' Weir: If I feel fine, why should being 40 in 2010 be a barrier?
• I'll show I can take the heat, insists new Jamaica boss Barnes
• Why is gratuitous nudity being used to sell everything from handbags to fruit juice?
• You must be joking - the finals? You're ranked 131 in the world!
• Olympic samples will be re-tested after doping twist
• As Mrs Blair spends £30,000 on a private pool... the disgraceful state of public swimming baths and why Cherie's right for once
• Hollywood hints from an original: What would Katherine Hepburn do?
• Born to be mild: How the hippies turned into their parents
• Richard and Judy's first Daily Mail book club choice: Mudbound by Hillary Jordan
• Spurs' UEFA Cup opponents Spartak turn to Brit for some crisp help
• Oxbridge edged out in global standings by US universities
• Terry Edwards to continue as Britain's boxing coach until London Olympics
• Turner's Earners - all the best bets for Thursday's races
• The bitter truth about the credit crunch ... 20million Britons have stopped going to the pub
• Cecil gives Queally the chance to make his name on Twice Over
• Cosmic eye looks back in time to picture a galaxy forming in the early Universe
• Chinese repression in Tibet is like 'Cultural Revolution' days, says Dalai Lama's envoy
• On this day in sport - October 9
• Nigella reveals her slimming secret (Hint: It doesn't involve dieting or eggs)
• The internet lover who was right up my street.... just seven doors away
• Sporting birthdays - October 9
• Ferdinand thinks FIFA must punish countries with points deductions to stop racist chanting
• UK slides three places down global ranking table for economic competitiveness
• Paris Hilton seeks advice from West Wing president as she steps up her election campaign
• Scientists overcome embryo dilemma by creating stem cells from sperm
• Former Sky News presenter Bob Friend dies from a brain tumour
• Why does it always rain on me?
• Council paints 'respect zone' in car park in bid to stop boy racer yobs making residents lives a misery
• All Hook Up: The Elvis lookalike who's a fish
• Motorists 'ripped off' as oil prices fall to new low
• Janet Ellis: Me & my money
• IVF boom: British births top 10,000 in a year for the first time
• ING Direct bank: how to measure its strength
• BBC splashed out £81,000 of licence fee cash on lavish Wimbledon hospitality event
• We almost lost our Icesave cash
• Iceland owes the world £116,000 for every man, woman and child on the island
• Market storm batters final salary pensions
• Jude Law grows a moustache to play Watson in new Sherlock Holmes movie
• Ten safe saving accounts
• This curse of Hirst: Queen's composer blasts 'commercial depravity' of the art world
• THE MIDLANDER: Past glories count for nothing as Villa, Forest and Wolves struggle to compete with the 'big four'
• Small is beautiful for Richard and Judy as just 200,000 tune into their digital TV debut
• Prince Charles joins eco debate
• Italian party calls for licensing system for immigrants - with expulsions once they hit zero
• Cats and dogs cut their owners' cancer risk by a third, researchers say
• Balls is let off but expenses cut urged for MPs who share second homes
• Channel Tunnel blaze shutdown costs operator Eurotunnel £17million in lost revenues
• A season for all men...
• William and Harry rev up for Ewan McGregor-style charity motorcycle marathon in Africa
• Website of the week: thetrainline.com
• Britain's top judge trebles 'too lenient' sentence of knife teen who repeatedly stabbed refugee
• Wife kept prisoner by jealous husband for 50 years, say police
• Pompey star Hughes relishing his meeting with boyhood heroes AC Milan
• Bailout may up Treasury borrowing to £150bn
• Over 3,000 Whitehall computer contract jobs facing axe
• Do you need debt advice?
• Smiling Wendy Richard takes cancer battle in her stride: Brave actress steps out as she prepares for her wedding
• Lesbian couple claim boss told them: 'Gays will never suffer as much as Jews
• We've all fallen for the big stock market con
• Objects of desire: The right trousers
• UK's best free attractions revealed
• 300 star Gerard Butler accused of 'attacking photographer'
• Where has national pension scheme gone?
• Fat cats hit by a Left and a Right: Brown and Cameron talk tough on bonuses
• The balti bail-out: Chancellor's £245 takeaway curry helped seal the £500bn rescue deal
• Health fears raised over electronic cigarettes
• Karzai's brother dines with Taliban as speculation of talks between militants and Afghan government grows
• Confident HSBC fuels debate over wisdom of interbank lending as it loans £2billion
• Capital target for banks may rise to at least £38billion
• England waits as Cozier calls for Windies warring parties to sort it out
• Buscopan IBS Relief
• Credit card bills for the rest of your life
• Err nerr! Hotel upsets locals with its visitors' guide to distinctive Hull dialect
• Government faces backbench revolt over policy that lets parents smack their children
• £1,785 a meeting - that will do nicely says prospective Tory MP
• Buck stops with manager - Chelsea chairman in thinly veiled attack on Spurs and other clubs who employ directors of football
• Top to toe
• Party life of single mother arrested over fire that killed her two young boys
• Capital-hungry HBOS to sell its Australian lender BankWest for £860million
• High School Musical 3: Corny, squeaky-clean... a modern day Grease
• I can't bear the pain of Spurs being rock bottom, says Tottenham captain Ledley
• Beauty confidential: Last-minute make-up dramas
• Tristan set for Hammers exit despite boss Zola hoping for another week
• Dress up your tea party
• Bath warned: You have it all Toulouse if we get the ball to Medard
• Curb on boss pay and bonuses in return for bail-out
• British billionaire Joe Lewis purchases 25% stake in Mitchells & Butler after Tchenguiz sells up
• Oriental blossoms: a dining room with a touch of the East
• Gunman guilty of murdering ex-boxer who asked him to put out his cigarette
• Post office closure discriminate against disabled people - woman takes her claim to High Court
• What’s new, kooky cat?
• The age of elegance
• Wright-Phillips: England axe has made me a much better player
• We have not agreed £18m Palacios sale to United, claims Wigan boss Bruce
• I'll fight Caldwell and McManus for spot in the Celtic defence, says Loovens
• Sweet success with your fashion style
• Britney's teen sister Jamie Lynn Spears denies she's pregnant with baby No.2
• Dismay at Darling plan for Treasury to control banks' dividends
• Shamed Radio 1 DJ jailed in Slovakia over child porn
• Homeowners' relief as mortgage costs fall
• Ee-aagh: The donkeys free to wander around a family's home... and indulge their obsession for French toast
• Blonde no more: Nell McAndrew reveals her new brunette look as she launches underwear range
• City dismay at giving up bank dividends
• Unveiled: Robogirl - the 'most human-like robot ever created'
• Widow battles to change law that women must have written consent to use dead men's sperm to conceive
• Silvestre boost for Gunners: Defender makes return to action
• Wasps coach McGeechan insists: I'm delighted Lewsey floored Cipriani - it shows we still pack a punch
• World's only double arm transplant patient tells of 'indescribable feeling of being whole again'
• Ruud comments from Van Nistelrooy as he says Cristiano WILL be Real star
• Taxpayer could pay for ITV's regional news, says Michael Grade
• Resident who chopped down trees used by yobs to hide from CCTV camera is arrested and charged with criminal damage
• Ronaldinho snubbed 'gigantic offer' from Man City to earn less at Milan
• Where next for interest rates?
• Man Utd want Wigan winger Valencia, reveals Latics chairman Whelan
• Pictured: The grieving mother whose toddler daughter died after being left in the care of 'inexperienced anaesthetist'
• Model to mentor: Life imitates art for Tyra Banks in shoot inspired by cult Seventies film Mahogany
• Has your savings rate been cut?
• This is the worst time of my Arsenal career - struggling Gallas in crisis
• Lily Cole races back from uni for music awards bash... but was it to catch up with Bryan Ferry?
• Taxi firm in court for refusing to take blind woman's guide dog
• Spurs midfielder Modric looking forward to reunion with Zagreb at the Lane
• Smokin' laces: The top shoes
• Late baby bloomers: Will older mothers regret their choice?
• Manchester United and Chelsea could be thrown out of the Champions League unless they sort out their finances
• Wilkinson has '90 per cent chance' of making RBS Six Nations, says surgeon
• Climate change spreading 'deadly dozen' diseases, experts warn
• VIDEO: Napoli tell Chelsea that striker target Lavezzi is going nowhere
• Crackdown on mortgage deals
• Desperate plea for £400,000 to save Launch 102 - the last surviving Dunkirk boat
• Has your mortgage rate been cut? | October 2008
• Hillsborough victim's mother Anne Williams: 'I want more than "Sorry"'
• Delicious Mauritius!
• Britain's Got Talent: Listen to Andrew Johnston's new album One Voice here!
• I'm not the new Rebrov, insists misfiring Spurs hitman Pavlyuchenko
• Salomon Kalou determined to step up and become the star striker at Chelsea
• Here come the boys: The next generation of eye-candy actors
• Refs back use of technology but know the final call lies with FIFA
• Ireland skipper Grix insists Irish will love being the underdogs
• HATCHET MAN: Premier League chief Scudamore's fit and proper nonsense
• Pictured: The house LITERALLY sawn in half by divorcing couple
• Rare truffle discovered again in Britain after a 97-year absence
• 'Look what I made, mummy': Suri Cruise shows off her painting to proud Katie
• Emergency rate cut leads drastic measures to save financial system
• Pick up our fabulous romantic comedy collection of 12 DVDs
• Dana Delany: ‘I’ve tried hard all my life not to be a desperate housewife’
• Van Persie blow for Arsenal: Holland striker's injury jinx strikes again
• Edinburgh skipper Blair insists: We've got to beat Leinster
• Alcoa halts buyback as profits plunge
• Binman 'hit and swore at man who barricaded dustcart when rubbish was left uncollected'
• Inheriting a hefty tax bill
• Bank bailout package: How the bank chiefs have responded
• Rapist caught out because of his distinctive 'bling' rings due for sentencing
• Walliams dazzles in flamboyant and chilling Harold Pinter play
• Sarah Palin and Princess Diana are cousins, genealogists reveal
• We need answers to this saving madness
• Ponting hits Sehwag's 'Aussie cheats' claims as war of words gets under way
• Wenger planning £8m raid for France Under-21 midfielder Matuidi
• Nobel Prize awarded for discovery of glowing jellyfish used to track cancer
• Reina may help team-mate Riera get in Spain team after crunching rival
• West Ham owner Gudmundsson won't panic despite Icelandic bank collapse
• Sainsbury's shines with 3.9% sales rise
• Frankly, she doesn't give a damn: Clark Gable's bleary-eyed granddaughter falls down in the street
• Compensation culture forces councils to spend more on drivers who hit potholes than actually fixing the roads
• Obama admits he hasn't quit smoking - but cuts himself some slack while he runs for president
• Prehistoric child is discovered buried with 'toy hedgehog' at Stonehenge
• Here comes the credit crunch bride... in a £15 Marks & Spencer wedding dress
• Green power from Britain's waterways 'will generate electricity for 45,000 homes'
• Hate preacher Bakri takes a 26-year-old wife - younger than his pole-dancer daughter
• Hamilton looking to drive home his world title advantage in Japan
• Torres and Rooney lead the line for Champ Man's Team of the Week
• Fabio Capello's England climb one place to 14th in FIFA world rankings
• WEB EXCLUSIVE RECIPE: Divine chestnut and chocolate cake
• Emergency measures last used to ease Asian financial crisis of the 90s relaunched as shares fall back into the red
• Birmingham chief Gold warns of 'blood on the carpet' as clubs feel credit pain
• ING buys up bust Kaupthing's UK savings
• Arsenal's teen ace Ramsey can become the next Fabregas, claims Flynn
• International match day live: All the action as it happens from today's crunch World Cup qualifiers
• HATCHET MAN: For someone with six years left on his Arsenal contract Cesc Fabregas is too keen to talk about a move to Spain
• HBOS gets £860m from Aussie sell-off
• I'm trying for baby number two, says 'sexiest woman alive' Halle Berry as she reveals her raunchy bedroom secrets
• Euthanasia expert dubbed Dr Death 'to teach British pensioners how to commit suicide'
• Boy of 10 crashed van at 90mph after drunken father 'made him drive home'
• No doubt on determination now
• Candy brothers in bid to save US project
• Eighteen dead after plane catches fire on take-off at Mount Everest airport
• Ryanair boss reveals plan to launch low-cost, long-haul venture in the next three years
• Shares slide 'proves short sellers not to blame'
• Ashley warned he may fail to sell Newcastle because of the credit crunch
• A round-up of the newspapers: Wednesday
• Frank Lampard urges England to get over the Wembley fear factor
• Radcliffe confirms she'll run the Great South Run after an 18-year rest
• World markets plunge amid recession fear
• Young mother beats odds of 200 million to one to give birth to triplets - while on the pill
• Paris Hilton goes drinking alone at Madonna's pub before upsetting top club's owners with her diva demands
• Key question is whether move fires interbank lending
• Brough captains Scots while 2000 survivor Logan also makes the squad
• Tattooed with his own name and birthdate, is this the world's most gormless thief?
• Dinner lady worried about credit card debt found dead in school freezer
• Alcoa halts share buyback and cancels non-essential projects after profits dive to £153million
• Q&A: The banking system bailout plan explained
• Sainsbury’s shines in market gloom with 3.9% sales rise
• HSBC moves swiftly back into interbank loans market after bailout news
• No operation but Strettle still faces two months out with an injured foot
• England expects as Arsenal youngster Theo Walcott bids to justify the hype
• Britney must face trial for driving without a licence after lawyers fails to have case dismissed
• Kelly Brook makes sure her rugby star is well rested as she takes delivery of a kingsize bed
• More Britons opt for caravan holidays to beat the credit crunch
• Me & my money: Blue Peter badges handy for traffic wardens
• Mbeki ally 'serves divorce papers' on ANC - but stops short of forming new South African political party
• Ecofin - European finance ministers meeting
• I'm no flash in the pan, insists World Cup-bound Higham
• Cautious welcome for 'sensible move'
• Not just a pretty face: Can model Caprice's bras give Next a boost?
• Is Lindsay Lohan's bust too good to be true?
• Bored postman dumped thousands of parcels in woods two weeks after starting job
• This £500bn has got to be enough
• The probity of Scots lenders dives
• Anti-terror police erect bizarre wooden frame around second 7/7 'bomb factory'
• Pressure on RBS to ditch Goodwin and McKillop
• Law student died of rare virus days after doctors diagnosed him with a muscle strain
• HATCHET MAN: Maybe Ashley will realise he isn't helping Toon's marketability after extending the deadline for Newcastle bids
• Eva Longoria's transformation from casual to couture is topped off with an old-fashioned bouffant
• Mad hair, high heels and bags of attitude: Ten tips on how to stand out in the fashion crowd
• Identity theft to soar as credit crunch forces fraudsters to target existing account holders
• Wednesday's closing report from the London Stock Exchange: FTSE falls but HBOS is big winner in reaction to bailout plan
• Margaret Stone's MONEY MAIL ADVICE: I want my savings back from the Met
• Trio missing for Ireland's clash with Cyprus but Newcastle star Damien Duff gives boss Trapattoni a boost
• 'Human remains found' inside stomach of crocodile suspected of eating British tourist alive
• 'Unfit' Pavlyuchenko on collision course with Spurs after joining up with Russia World Cup squad
• Hundreds of new marine species discovered in 'rainforests of the deep' off Australia
• Caught on camera: Facing time behind bars, the bike thief who took the railing too
• Candy brothers buy out failed Icelandic bank to keep two luxury developments on track
• Ryanair to hike baggage charges
• Federal Reserve makes injection for firms
• HATCHET MAN: UEFA Cup may get Pompey, Spurs and City hot and bothered, but it's a turn-off for the rest of us
• Tony Hazell: A shocking week in personal finance and we want answers
• Lewsey escapes rap after knocking out England boy wonder Cipriani
• Corporate giants failing to pay on time
• Darling guarantees Icesave savers 100%
• BlackBerry Storm goes head to head with Apple iPhone in battle of touch-screen mobiles
• HATCHET MAN: Benitez's public angling for a new deal is just how business is done at Liverpool these days
• Ryanair 'cheap US flights in three years'
• Computer fault may have caused Qantas jet to plunge 8,000ft, say investigators
• Small firms' fury as bank rates shoot up
• Irish ready to fight Scottish bid to 'poach' Hamilton star McCarthy
• Gene link provides new hope for sufferers of most common cause of blindness
• Russia shuts stock exchange until Friday as shares nosedive
• Pictured: The astonishing grave dug for the Mexican who died weighing half a ton
• UK to be worst-hit by world slump - IMF
• Yesterday's trading: Trading floors battered again
• Comment: Heavy hand of the state is here to stay
• Roker Park legend Hurley warns: Kenwyne will terrorise Premier League defences
• 'Despicable': White House slams AIG bosses who went on lavish £250,000 trip days after £48bn bail-out
• Teachers warned to be on alert for pupils at risk of falling prey to extremism
• RBS chiefs are facing fresh calls for their heads after banks bail-out
• He really is a laydee: David Walliams shows his feminine side in a startling photoshoot
• Market report: Wednesday close
• What the back pages say - October 8
• FTSE 100 slumps after Darling reveals £50bn bank 'nationalisation'
• Council workers sacked over jobless Afghan mother of seven who got £1.2million council house
• Obama comes out on top after latest presidential debate as McCain struggles to land knockout blow
• Geoff Foster's market report: Trading floors battered again
• ALEX BRUMMER COMMENT: The probity of Scots lenders takes a dive
• Call for building societies to be backed in government's plan
• A black day for banks as Brown readies lifeboat
• Federal Reserve offers to buy up billions in commercial paper
• Nick Nolte injured after smashing window to escape house fire which caused $3m damage
• Is this Helen Von Trapp? 'Maria' Mirren borrows her style from The Sound Of Music at women's awards bash
• Mitchells & Butlers watch shares fall as Icelandic chaos hits home
• Hot to trot: Glamour girl Katie Price saddles up for latest challenge - at Horse of the Year show
• Record £7m fine for A&L in mis-selling of loan insurance
• Is City fixer Paul Myners the man to head the government's emergency response team?
• Harman condemns Brown for sacking minister branded a 'plotter'
• Top British lenders hit by £17billion wipeout as investors wait on government rescue
• White House anger after judge sets free 17 Chinese Muslims held in Guantanamo for seven years
• Another week of turmoil of turmoil leaves many questions unanswered
• Why a daily dose of aspirin may lower risk of breast cancer
• One in 300 NHS patients killed by blunders, Richard Branson warns in new health crusade
• Labour appoints pension minister number 16 while commitment to new national pension scheme is questioned
• Energy firms 'offering sweeteners to communities' to get permission for wind farms
• Mothers at risk on 'substandard' maternity wards as blunders double over two years
• When will we see our £20,000 home deposit? worried Money Mail writer asks