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• Use a tissue! How just one sneeze can infect 150 other people
• Injury sustained in Chelsea victory keeps Gallas out of Wigan clash
• Beat the best: Caldwell wants Celtic to smash O'Neill's record
• Gorgeous Scarlett Johansson lets her hair down at on the red carpet in London
• Balfour Beatty wins share of £10.8billion pot to go nuclear in reactor deal
• The Secret Life Of Bees: If you like pure cheese, this is the bee's knees
• Confessions of a Mastermind: An intriguing insight into TV's brainiest challenge
• Police clear City supporters, revealing French fans fought among themselves
• Arsenal land the biggest cash bonus from Euro 2008 pay-outs
• After Sarah Brown's hat trick, the do's and don'ts of carrying off the trickiest fashion challenge - the beret
• Madagascar 2 - Escape 2 Africa: I'm a film critic, get me out of here!
• Text exit: Keane ends his reign at Sunderland with a curt message for chairman Quinn
• Clipboard brigade to probe our private lives as Government plans sexual preference quiz
• South Africa star Herschelle Gibbs to start alcohol rehabilitation programme
• Texas Pacific Group comes forward as potential bidder in Ford's Volvo firesale
• Ignore the po-faced feminists. Why shouldn’t brains celebrate beauty?
• Animal Crossing - Let's Go To The City: Talk to the animals
• Under-fire Ince insists Blackburn players are fully behind him
• The police hunt: Why did it take 24 days to find her?
• Button down the hatches - Jenson & Co could be saved as Honda chief Fry reveals three buyers are in the frame
• MAIL COMMENT: We must now look to the European Court to safeguard our civil rights
• Vanishing demand driving oil prices towards $25 a barrel, says Merrill Lynch
• Stenson fires brilliant 63 to lead by five shots in Sun City
• Mother mown down in carjack 'blinks' to tell husband about two attackers
• Shannon Matthews: A survivor given the chance of a new life
• Shaun White Snowboarding - Road Trip: Great snow-based fun
• Hoddle advises Swindon to make Orient's Ling their new boss
• Prince of Persia: Prince of Persia's practically perfect
• Cheap petrol and 'price crunch' promos help Morrisons wipe the floor with its rivals
• Council orders social services probe into how Shannon Matthews' family were dealt with in years before her kidnap
• TOM UTLEY: I hate these unelected foreign judges ... But today I could kiss them
• Keane obviously has talent. The person he could never convince was himself
• British Horseracing Authority in penalty pledge over Munce affair
• Triesman set to be third time unlucky
• Judo throws wobbly over basketball’s Olympic cash boost
• Wig Out: New York's drag addicts are as camp as Christmas
• 3,000 bankers face jobless Christmas in latest City bloodletting
• Does a short haircut mean women have gone off sex?
• A Little Night Music: No wonder the boys are after Ms Waddingham
• Central banks begin to run out of ammunition as interest rates hit new lows
• Michael Donovan: The oddball accomplice who had snatched a child before
• Tragic toll in lone parent families as research reveals their babies are more likely to die young
• Selling fast, the £129 dog that's for Christmas, not for life...
• Salary caps moving closer for hard-up Championship clubs
• ALEX BRUMMER COMMENT: Bank seeks some new tools
• Nasri: Now it's time to prove Arsenal title doubters wrong
• Carousel: Hankies out for a magical merry go round
• Spurs get Friday feeling as televised FA Cup third round ties are confirmed
• British missionary couple in Muslim African country face months in jail 'hell hole' after being charged with sedition
• RICHARD LITTLEJOHN: Happy Christmas! And welcome, to Brown's Blunderland
• Downturn means the end of The Pier as High Street chains march into the sickbay
• Sousa's swagger suggests golden age ahead as QPR coach
• Vampire star Pattinson to sink his teeth into £10m a film
• Seven children, six fathers (and a ring from Argos): Lazy, sex mad Karen Matthews symbolises broken Britain
• I just loved winding Nicola up, admits jungle 'sex pest' David Van Day after he fails to reach I'm A Celebrity final
• CITY FOCUS: Retailers get hung, drawn and quartered
• Middlesex to follow England's lead on potential Indian return
• Princes go to ground at the Turf Club
• Hungry final four battle extreme wet and windy conditions in cyclone challenge on I'm A Celebrity
• Listen up, warns Mitchell as he bids for back-to-back wins at Punchestown
• Quins crash the promotion party
• Burley backs Euro 2016 bid but eyes 2010 World Cup qualification first
• Racing round-up: New marker in place to keep cross-country riders on track
• Meet Charles van Commenee - the ruthless new face of British athletics
• Sad day for Darren as former Spurs star Anderton calls it quits
• Turner's Earners: All the best bets for Friday, December 5
• Riding to the rescue, with OUR money
• 'I've still got the hots for Dec!' Janice Dickinson gives her verdict on the stars of this year's I'm a Celebrity
• Toulon are alerted after Saint-Andre confirms summer exit from Sale
• American boy Adu reveals that he has always dreamt of signing for Spurs
• Get £75 worth of vouchers to spend at your favourite high street stores!
• England are halfway there but tour to India is still in the balance
• UEFA Cup live: Portsmouth and Aston Villa chase vital UEFA Cup points
• Executive was paid £1m by Government to reduce Third World poverty
• Government will demand to know people's bedroom habits in 'state intrusion of the very worst kind'
• Karen Matthews conned live-in lover Meehan into thinking he'd fathered one of her 7 children
• The two faces of Isla Fisher... adoring mother and swimsuit model
• West Ham are just a 'second-rate' stepping stone, insists Herita Ilunga
• Holiday cottages are the best festive let
• Rowdy Australian politicians could have to be breath-tested before voting
• The long and short of it: Lily Allen swaps her pixie cut for long hair extensions
• Airline collapse cover review urged
• Anichebe sees Everton's injury woe as a chance to shine
• Who needs a gondola? Man fulfils dream of wake-boarding across St Mark's Square as Venice is flooded
• Quinn tips Keane for future managerial success after Sunderland exit
• 'Atom Ant' Giovinco has no intention of leaving Juventus for West Ham
• Campaigners say we must develop a taste for venison to keep 'soaring' deer numbers under control
• Here's one industry that's thriving... the insolvency auction where bargain hunters make the most of the credit crunch
• Brown committed to Hull despite being among frontrunners for Sunderland job
• Big Sam's bookies' favourite - but who will replace Roy Keane at Sunderland?
• Abortion is NOT linked to depression, scientists claim
• Captain Fabregas insists: I do admire AC Milan - but I'm happy at Arsenal
• Little girl in iconic photograph of The Great Depression says 'We must not let it happen again'
• First digital Imax cinema in Europe is opened in London
• Mikel is the man: Chelsea midfielder reaps reward of keeping his head
• Sidelined Wilkinson optimistic about Six Nations return
• The moment a GI baby came face-to-face with the father who left her to go to war 63 years ago
• Simon Jones on path to recovery with Worcs - right in time for Ashes assault
• Mother of ex-England rugby captain Lawrence Dallaglio loses fight against cancer
• De Menezes family walk out of inquest in T-shirt protest over verdict
• 'Bishop' who claimed he'd killed 110 child 'witches' is arrested in Nigeria
• FA: We will severely punish Newcastle fans who hurled abuse at Mido
• Tum Conti: Shirley Valentine star Tom loses the battle with middle age spread
• Midwife who crashed car on school run was FIVE TIMES over drink-drive limit
• Blackwell boost for Blades: Manager extends stay at Bramall Lane
• Sky launches real-time online TV service that works without a satellite dish
• Britney's oldest shows his BIG musical potential doing a Tom Hanks in New York toy store
• United boss in 'I love ref' shock - Fergie praises ref who doesn't pull punches
• Roy's rants and raves - the best Keane quotes
• Saint-Andre set to step down as Sale boss at end of season
• Israel preparing a 'go it alone' air strike against Iran's nuclear facilities without consulting the U.S.
• Santa Claus is an 'illegal immigrant' declares top Kremlin official in Christmas 'Cold War'
• Something to sprout about: Humble brussel-flavour ice cream offered at London restaurant
• Rangers on lookout for mole after tip-off at Watford
• Tim Chalmers: That was the sporting week
• Woman solicitor was 'drug dealer's lover, lawyer and financial advisor'
• Chelsea hope Abramovich will return from Russia with Vagner Love
• Italian group Enel offers £10bn to raise stake in Spanish Endesa
• Asylum seeker who claims she was raped in her home country is awarded £38,000 damages
• Heathrow's third runway thrown into doubt as decision is delayed
• Hetherington: Securetrade & Title Limited
• Surprise! Nerds are the most likely to be virgins... while female arts students have the most sex
• I won't hold Aston Villa to ransom and walk out in January, insists Gareth Barry
• Teenager causes thousands of pounds in damage to hotel after no family or home would have him
• Recruitment agency Michael Page sends alert, cuts staff
• John Barrowman apologises after exposing himself on Radio 1 show
• Commentary: Joy will be short-lived
• Midas Extra share tips: WS Atkins and Cybit
• BBC rides into more trouble after it reveals plans to launch a theme park
• Air rage attacks soar due to in-flight binge drinking and rows over smoking
• New York lawyer who loved S&M shot dead by his dominatrix girlfriend's stalker
• BA's Walsh is under fire as he stacks up merger moves
• Banks not signed up to mortgage rescue plan
• Brazilian beauty Adriana Lima shows off her killer curves in Victoria's Secret's Miracle Bra
• Abramovich dips into his pocket to pay Russia £3.4m for Hiddink's salary
• Gifted pupil killed himself 'after his school sidelined Christianity for alternative religions'
• X Factor Alexandra's secret heartache revealed: Her mother is critically ill
• Video: Karen Matthews continues her lies during police questioning
• Michael Page sends alert, cuts staff
• Pound keeps plummeting as zero-rate is predicted
• BA's Walsh under fire over merger moves
• Wartime diet of regular fasting slashes prostate cancer risk
• Bad call for Palace: Jordan rues big misses - Carrick, Ashton and Cahill
• Saha shrugs off hamstring injury to ease striker crisis at Everton
• Tandoori time for Keanu Reeves as he runs up £1,200 bill at gourmet London curry house
• England head coach Fabio Capello makes second raid on Arsenal staff
• Britney Spears peels off again for her raunchy new video clip
• Philosophical Fagan forgives Toon midfielder Guthrie for leg-break tackle
• Banks pass on rate cut
• Tragedy at German zoo after 13 penguins playing in the snow are killed by a fox
• England captain Pietersen 'very confident' of playing two-Test series in India
• The middle ranking civil servant who was snubbed by the Queen
• From Curbishley to Keane: The losers in the Premier League sack race
• Police reveal Shannon kidnap plot was inspired by hunt for Madeleine as Karen Matthews is found guilty
• 'Bootlegger' who netted £10m from Manchester moonshine factory is jailed
• Desperate times call for desperate measures
• Let's hope Ipswich have got deep pockets - Sportsmail's verdict on the £80m Sunderland transfer record of raspberry Roy
• HATCHET MAN: Chelsea are so lucky to have loyal players like Drogba
• 'Regular guy' George Clooney enjoys an Ocean of cocktails as he puts young Matt Damon to shame
• Lorraine Kelly does a Cilla: Presenter lets it all hang out on GMTV in plunging neckline
• Sir David and Sir Alex hit as £3bn fund collapses
• HATCHET MAN: A rough ride for Pompey? Get real
• Iran arrests 49 of its citizens for wearing 'satanic' Western-style clothes and haircuts
• Screen alerts - Sportsmail imagines what the big screens inside Premier League grounds are telling players to do...
• Travellers granted legal aid to fight eviction 'bought £230,000 five-bedroom house - with CASH'
• Gordon Ramsay 'mistress' Sarah Symonds 'sacked from infidelity website for being indiscreet'
• Goldman Sachs turns down new bid for Sanyo stake
• Bargain bloodbath: High Street battle for Christmas shoppers hots up as stores continue to slash prices
• About a Roy: From United hero to stepping down at Sunderland and a return with Ipswich - The highs and lows of Keane
• Teenager banned from wearing Christian chastity ring at school
• HATCHET MAN: Gomes is smiles better but Spurs still need to sign another keeper
• Napoli get tough with Chelsea target Ezequiel Lavezzi over wage demands
• Why did a 'cleared' cheque bounce?
• Interest rates slashed one point to 2%
• Has your mortgage rate been cut? | December 2008
• Property tycoon knocked down and left brain damaged while walking dog wins record £2.75m compensation
• Lap dancers given bogus notes help crack Italian counterfeit ring
• SFA president George Peat casts doubt over Scots' chances of hosting Euros
• What will my inheritance be worth?
• 'I long to be in the trenches': How a young Edward VIII echoed Prince Harry's frustration at not seeing wartime action
• Thousands more City jobs to go at two major banks
• Sparkle and shine: Sequins to add razzle dazzle to any party outfit
• Ford seeks a Volvo buyer to bolster bailout chances
• Age catches up fast with grey and balding Ben Affleck as bulging wife Jennifer Garner prepares to deliver baby No.2
• Manchester United players pampered? They don't even run their own baths
• Out of this world: British teddy bears strapped to helium weather balloon reach the edge of space
• Hampstead intellectual seeks egg donor to become a mother... but only Oxbridge students will be considered
• Bring on Manchester United: Spurs hero Darren Bent issues his battle cry
• VIDEO SPECIAL: After terrific Tevez, five more South Americans who gave the Premier League Latin lessons
• What would Max and Amy say? Peaches Geldof and 'Good' Blake step out together
• Banks in lending dilemma
• Republican hangs up on surprise call from Barack Obama TWICE because she thought it was a radio hoax
• Championship football club Sheffield Utd kicks AIM into touch
• Serious air rage incidents fall
• Sick conwoman cashing in on Baby P tragedy with fake door-to-door collection
• I wish I'd had that vile sex pest David Van Day thrown out of the jungle, says I'm A Celebrity's Nicola McLean
• Thursday market close: Trading slows as interest rates are slashed to 2 per cent
• Sir Alex Ferguson and Grant Bovey hit as £3bn property fund collapses
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• Spurs and Villa on Ashton alert after Hammers run out of patience
• One million innocent people could have their profiles wiped from Britain's DNA database after court ruling
• What do interest rate cuts mean to you?
• Teacher suspended for punishing pupils with press-ups - at a sports college
• Win a holiday to Frigate Bay Resort on the Island of St Kitts
• 500,000 Londoners miss out on bank rate cut
• AC Milan move sounds like a Fab idea to Arsenal captain Cesc Fabregas
• Older drivers 'six times more likely' to be caught by speed cameras
• Bleak future for Thai tourism
• New cars sales slump 37% as cash-strapped customers shun showrooms
• Amazon £3 album deal in MP3 war
• JJB calls in big guns for survival fight
• Online TV viewers soar despite Kangaroo setback
• Getaway drug mule: Smuggler with £300,000 cigarette haul tries to outrun police in a horse and cart
• Roy Keane quits as Sunderland boss after 100 games in charge
• Thousands of jobs lost across the City and High Street as banks wield the axe and Woolies faces collapse
• Setback for easyJet fuels Stelios row
• Thousands more jobs cut across Britain
• Sheffield Utd kicks AIM into touch
• Woolworths to vanish from the High St threatening up to 30,000 jobs
• Tony Blair praises Obama for his 'A-Team' of politicians in push for peace in the Middle East
• Security crackdown in Goa
• Italians still Inter poaching Chelsea stars as Muntari makes move on Essien
• Ford seeks a Volvo buyer to bolster bailout chances
• House prices falling faster than 90s crash
• Pictured: The latest weapon in the war on cocaine - a dog called Pablo
• New nuclear plants create 15,000 jobs
• City steward and police officer injured as hooligans run riot at Eastlands
• ITV public-service plans under fire
• ITV public-service plans for UK-wide Channel 3 under fire
• The dress that gave Cheryl a little extra... X Factor judge shows off cleavage boost while out with Ashley and the girls
• Hundreds of Harry Potter fans queue at midnight to buy new JK Rowling book
• Kondratiev wave
• Average house loses £100 A DAY as prices plummet at fastest rate for 25 years
• Blast from the past: Astronomers resurrect historic supernova using interstellar 'mirror'
• Newly single Madonna strikes a sultry pose at 50 in raunchy Louis Vuitton advert (and not a bulging vein in sight)
• Pound slides ahead of cut in interest rates
• ANALYSIS: Small numbers, unrepresented samples and generalised conclusions
• Look at us! X Factor sweethearts Diana and Eoghan check themselves out in the magazines before cinema date
• It's not just the power of suggestion: 'Placebo effect' is in the genes
• Passenger slowdown at budget carrier easyJet
• A steal at £16m: the police station up for sale
• Family of man trampled to death in Wal-Mart shopper stampede sues store for 'reckless negligence'
• Schools banned from requesting birth certificates of prospective pupils to stop 'cherry picking'
• Hospital bosses demand dead man's consent... before they investigate family complaints about his death
• Everton look at £3m Portsmouth striker Nugent in hunt for more firepower
• New car sales plunged 38% last month
• Bruce eyes a bigger bonus by refusing to let Heskey leave Wigan in January
• New nuclear power plants to create 15,000 jobs
• Formidable Tevez forces Fergie rethink after inspiring amazing United blitz
• Cancer fear for hundreds of patients after man given 'all clear' by surgeons dies of disease
• Thai flights step up as king takes centre stage... but more trouble is on the way, say analysts
• Shoppers turn to 'unfashionable' Morrisons
• Hahnemann flattered to be lined up as Spurs' replacement for Gomes
• Q&A: The Homeowner Mortgage Support Scheme
• Bidders on start line for U.S. embassy site
• Klaas would have joined United but City are too small to have been in the Hunt
• Rate cut 'will do nothing' for homeowners
• Cowdrey, Salisbury, McCague, Pattinson, Pigott: Sportsmail unveils England's worst-ever Test XI
• Mariah Carey and Christina Aguilera lead the stars at the Grammy nominations... while Coldplay steal the show with seven nominations
• Woodgate wants second taste of Carling glory after holders Spurs reach last four
• Sack the hairdresser, Posh! Looks like you've been left with a bald patch
• Bailout boost for New Star's stockpickers
• Morrisons sales leap as credit crunch shoppers turn away from Tesco and move in on its cut price deals
• Count me in as Australia skipper for years to come, insists injured Ponting
• Look, no airbrush! A natural Kate Winslet looks better than ever
• Struggling borrowers will get mortgage paid
• Amazon sparks music price war by offering tracks online for just 59p
• Grandson of German prince who helped 'Valkyrie' plot to kill Hitler loses bid to win back his family's £6m estate
• War games: The al-Qaeda and Nazi Lego men that 'glorify terrorism'
• What the back pages say: Villa want Heskey, City slam rioting French fans, Fergie wants Ronaldo protected by refs, Ashton tops eight-man list heading for Upton Park exit
• Stock market report: Thursday close
• Pound keeps falling as 0% rates predicted
• Sibir hit as it plans to spend £230m on director's property
• Hollywood actor Mark Ruffalo rushes to hospital bedside of brother after he's shot in the head
• Ladybird man who taught Britain to read with inspiring Peter and Jane books
• Bailout boost for Star's stockpickers
• New car sales plunged 38 per cent last month with luxury models and gas guzzlers bearing the brunt
• British playboy who threw girlfriend off cliff 'like a spear' is sentenced to 17 years in jail
• Muslim legal assistant taunted by boss over her headscarf wins £75,000 damages
• Taking a risk with sterling
• Dallaglio challenges Cipriani to prove he is keen for success ON the pitch
• Sunderland chairman Quinn begs Keane to end speculation
• A GOLDEN AGE: We've much to learn from the Fifties, when families flourished and there was REAL social mobility
• Mayfield armed for retail war at John Lewis
• 'Migrant influx' will force up council tax with two thirds of authorities already planning rise
• My, hasn't Phil Collins's little Lily blossomed?
• Ban on buy one get one free drink deals next year to reduce binge drinking
• Barbarians 11 Australia 18: Battered Wallabies hold out at Wembley
• Nasser Hussain: England players are right to back the Indian public
• JACI STEPHEN'S JUNGLE WATCH: David hasn't got enough front to replace Nicola with his toilet roll chest
• Yesterday's trading: Lonrho making hay on shares
• Who makes the best mince pies? Our writer taste tests the supermarkets' festive food to find out
• BBC internet video service tie-up is 'bad for competition', says regulator
• Dreamgirls Aloud: Cheryl & Co transform themselves into Beyonce-a-likes for their Christmas TV show
• KP leads the way: Pietersen unites his wary team behind him for India tour II
• Black Cats keeper Gordon backs Keane and says he 'respects his judgment'
• Queen's Speech: Firms free to favour female and black job applicants
• England fly out to prepare for India return - but no guarantees they will play
• ABA president Richard Caborn lashes out at medallists turning pro
• Merger Action Group poses new threat to Lloyds TSB and HBOS merger