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• UK and Dutch governments behind this year's major merger and acquisition deals
• Tottenham 2 Spartak Moscow 2: Poor Spurs count their lucky tsars
• Did Rachel's killer commit 109 sex attacks? Chilling past of psychopath with a lust for butchering blonde mothers
• Twilight: A teen flick you can sink your teeth into
• Jaguar chief says UK car-making crisis a 'national emergency'
• JAN MOIR: Oh, the sheer absurdity of Nancy Dell' Loonio
• Curse of the fish that time forgot: Believed to be extinct for 65million years - it returned with chilling consequences
• Sterling shock as currency falls ever closer to equality with euro
• Vagner Love wants Madrid move but Everton are in pole position
• The next big thing: Passion Pit
• The best bargain buys from across the country
• BA's Walsh sees the sun set on failed Qantas deal
• Bellamy ends talk of Celtic move by saying he is out of their price league
• Charles Sale: Arsenal's Danny boy is wielding the axe at the Emirates
• EXCLUSIVE: Arsenal's deposed first Lady hits out at ruthless board coup
• Barclays to review Premier League deal as credit crunch bites
• CITY FOCUS: Tall order for hapless US bank watchdogs
• On tour now: Elton John
• Wigan set up January window deal for Colombian scoring sensation
• DAILY MAIL COMMENT: We need an independent, no-holds-barred inquiry into the Iraq debacle
• Turner's earners: All the best bets for Friday, December 19
• Just what I NEVER wanted! The ghastliest gifts ever
• Clark and Kellogg clinch Super Series win for Britain
• Home groans! Grimsby boss Newell in blast over League's kid quota
• Whitaker off to a flier with victory in Christmas Pudding Speed Stakes
• MARKET REPORT: Retailers lifted by rising sales
• Passenger train derails after parked car 'without handbrake on' rolls down a hill
• Besieged ECB chairman Clarke turns his fire on England coach Moores
• Sotherton to take on Olympic champion Dobrynska in Birmingham
• TOM UTLEY: Utley For King? Nice idea, Bishop Beardy, but I'm not about to murder my brother to claim the throne
• Back on song: After two years battling a brain tumour, singer Russell Watson returns with a new album
• Wishing upon a star: Frenchman Foucher still regrets Kauto loss
• Former world champion Murphy strolls into semi-finals with comfortable win
• Back injury puts career of Sheffield United veteran Speed in doubt
• Tony Bennett is still flying high on the good life
• Your Country Needs You: Lloyd Webber wants to lead us to success in Eurovision and needs all the help he can get
• What's more attractive - hairy chests or polished pecs?
• RICHARD LITTLEJOHN: If Del Boy was around today, he'd be trading in carbon offsets
• Harry Redknapp to start his Tottenham wheeler-dealing with Finnan loan
• THE CORDELIA DREAM: Nodding off to the sound of a family row
• Allardyce looks on bright side in bid to lift storm clouds at Blackburn
• BAZ BAMIGBOYE: Can 007 really carry a tune? Will Billie Piper's charity campaign pay off? And much more
• LOOT: Portrait of the plod needs more pace
• Relieved Donald is back in the swing after five months on sidelines
• Labour finally admits married parents ARE best for children after all
• Strictly secret! Heartache of the man behind the hit show's magic music
• Caught in a Von Trapp: The world knows her as Maria - can Connie's latest role prove she's more than a one-trick pony?
• As Becks heads to AC see Sportsmail's guide to the 10 best loan signings
• SUNSET BOULEVARD: Method but not enough madness
• ALEX BRUMMER: UK's surging tide of red ink
• Women referees and plastic pitches? Is this a joke, boys?
• Mr Fancy Pants in a wild night
• SVG asks shareholders for £200m after bets go sour
• Jose is up to all his old tricks in Milan, but he's still the main man to miss
• Why the elderly give the past a rosier tint
• The shocking truth about how we will follow orders
• Why culinary confusion is leaving our Christmas turkey high and dry ... and tasteless
• Fans sold short in TV gold rush
• Online shopping fuels welcome 2.9% rise in sales
• ANDREW ALEXANDER: From Wall Street to Kabul, stupidity reigns supreme
• THE LIST: 10-1 of our favourite foreign players to have graced our soil
• Middlesbrough ready for the Riverside invasion of non-league Barrow
• Will Smith gives £79,000 to Scientology ... despite claiming that he's NOT a member
• Did you hear the one about the shopkeeper who was slapped with a police ban on his jokes?
• Cash-strapped parents desert private schools for the state system
• Checking out the Russian blonde who split the darts world
• QUENTIN LETTS: A formidable Charles Kennedy spoke with the voice of an ancient mariner
• Avoid the lean, mean Barca machine, or it will be Messi
• Indian builder survives after being skewered by 6ft iron pole that fell 10 storeys
• Ledley is King: Martin Jol says Spurs defender is the best he has ever seen
• Will they get back together? Emmerdale's Chastity and Carl enjoy a steamy clinch... but Aaron is watching
• UEFA Cup live: Manchester City and Tottenham finish their group campaigns
• Retired European Cup Final ref Michel is cashing in at Shakhtar
• Moroccan man jailed for 20 years for Madrid train bombings that killed 191 people
• Tough punishment for youth knife crime is 'misguided', says sentencing panel
• A class apart: The stand-in headmaster who is paid £800 a DAY
• Sarah Palin remains silent over claims Alaskan government staff sent racist Barack Obama emails
• Friedel: Clean bill of health will boost Villa's top four dream
• Cook's confidential: Fashionistea time, sparkling vodka, organic olive oil and more
• Landmark statue of Spanish dictator Franco is finally torn down, 33 years after his death
• Woman accused of road death while texting thought it acceptable to use phone while driving 'in right conditions'
• Toxic Irish beef has reached UK shop shelves
• Cowellelujah: Simon rides the waves as he earns £250,000 a day for doing nothing.... thanks to his Hallelujah rights
• Senior Labour ministers forced to apologise for dire handling of Equitable Life collapse
• More bad luck for West Ham's Dyer after flu delays injury return
• Adams lauds Pompey starlet Wilson and blasts 'spineless' Blackburn board
• It was murder: Coroner rules Mark Ruffalo's did NOT kill himself
• Hammers assistant Steve Clarke plays down 'club in crisis' tag
• Hetherington: Publishing scam
• Boss who paraded thieving worker through streets walks free from court
• Win a luxury hotel break in London
• Wenger warns Arsenal fans: I won't spend for the sake of it in January
• Midas Extra share tips: Smiths Group and PHC
• Win a Home Cinema System worth more than £5,000
• Wenger: Jack Wilshere can be Arsenal's new Dennis Bergkamp
• The real Rommel: Enduring myth of the decent Nazi is debunked
• Rachel Nickell's parents claim they are banned from seeing their grandson
• Kerry Katona's husband says he doesn't want anything to do with his love child... despite her warning he'll regret it later
• Where to invest redundancy payment
• Theme park fined £250,000 after teenage girl plunged 100ft to her death from white-knuckle rollercoaster
• Beckham to play for AC Milan against Rangers in glitzy February friendly
• 2008: The year of the investing bear
• Is it finders-keepers at the bank?
• Napper's other victims: Mother and child were butchered in 'ritual slaughter'
• It's good to be back! Big Sam raring to go with Blackburn
• EXCLUSIVE: Harmison to be axed as England recall Broad for second Test
• Repossessions to match 1990s peak
• Fashion disaster: Crystal Palace set to scrap sash strip in favour of stripes
• Barca target Arsenal's Van Persie with Henry set to return to England
• As an executor, do I need probate?
• AA could rescue Spurs as Redknapp lines Ghana star Anthony Annan
• Why is every book a best-seller?
• Babysitter wrongly jailed for battering two-year-old boy to death cleared in re-trial
• Number of lapdancing clubs to fall in licensing crackdown
• Hundreds of well-wishers line streets to mourn five fallen war heroes killed in Afghanistan
• Fitness of Agbonlahor and Young pivotal to Villa's top four hopes
• Anelka dreams of striking up double act with Drogba at Chelsea
• Society model Gabriella Calthorpe: ‘I’m a go-get-it girl’
• Me and my school photo: Stephen Fry
• 'Lost Leonardo da Vinci drawings' found on back of one of his paintings in the Louvre
• X Factor runners-up JLS banned from signing deal with their mentor Louis Walsh
• No way Jose! Mourinho rules out January move for Chelsea's Drogba
• Am I a victim of sex discrimination?
• Shareholders in 97% rights take-up at Standard Chartered
• The boy who inspired Kate Middleton to get her skates on
• Love on the line? Coronation Street's Ken Barlow bonds with newcomer Martha as she hangs out her laundry
• Must I pay council tax on empty house?
• England and Gloucester's street fighting man Vainikolo charged with GBH
• Paedophile teacher 'groomed and abused' 14-year-old pupil who became infatuated with him
• Rugby star Vainikolo charged with GBH following street brawl that left man critically injured
• Beware this boiler-room scam
• Sterling sinks: euro is now worth record 95p
• Alex set to get Christmas wish with £10m Chelsea exit
• Muslim fanatic is first in Britain to be convicted of directing terrorism
• Recipe: Ginger, chilli and fennel chocolate squares
• Your stars for 2009
• I won't sell to Madrid mob: Fergie erupts as latest Ronaldo row touches a raw nerve
• What has Darling done to trusts?
• What's green, bendy and tells bad jokes? Eddie Murphy as The Riddler in the Batman sequel
• Plunge of 33% in UK car output 'underlines the need for rescue'
• Win tickets to the European premiere of Defiance
• Capello: I've lifted England 'depression', but I still worry about Wembley
• Recipe: Rose, fig and green pistachio chocolate chunks
• Spurs and Chelsea target Arshavin reveals talks with Premier League club
• Ring the changes: New year, new hope
• Equality Commission 'pays white staff more than ethnic minorities and men more than women'
• Catalogue of police mistakes left Napper free to rape and kill
• Robert Napper: Factory worker's secret life of a stalker, a rapist and frenzied knife killer
• Where will the FTSE 100 end 2009?
• Virals: Gunners duo Adebayor and Van Persie put the boot in
• Midwife avoids jail after driving daughter to school while FIVE times over alcohol limit
• Pound dives to another record low against euro
• Relationships special: How to play your conflict card
• Ashley: Kinnear will steer Newcastle into Europe - and he's better than Fabio
• Nicola McLean's famous assets get covered in snow (but thankfully, that's fake too!)
• 'Lord road rage': Peer of the realm with £315m fortune 'went berserk' in attack on motorist
• How can we juggle income to cut tax?
• Puzzle as high street sales post rise
• EXCLUSIVE: Ashley loses Money as academy chief walks out on Newcastle
• Family favourites: From high drama to magic and fantasy, our guide to the best of Christmas TV
• Who can I leave my pension to?
• Pictured: The tree shaped like a giant Christmas pudding... made by Mr and Mrs Holley
• Fall in car output 'underlines the need for lifeline'
• HARRY PHIBBS: It's about democracy, not politics. Let the public elect police chiefs and their concerns will be heard
• Democracy, South Korean-style: MPs blasted with fire extinguishers after trying to break into Parliament with hoses and sledgehammers
• Wheelchair-bound conman handed in to authorities after suffering stroke... by his own wife
• How can I delay grandson's cash bonanza?
• As dole queues grow, 5,000 more migrants are given work visas
• Portsmouth defender Lauren urges Real Madrid to sign 'ace' Diarra
• Pound sinks to new low
• Alesha Dixon shows off her midriff as she hits the town in a sparkling party number
• British Science Museum plans to bid £30m for NASA's retiring space shuttle Endeavour
• I've been terribly wronged, says former suspect Colin Stagg
• Make-up masterclass: Lower the tone
• Crackdown on binge-drinking teachers aims to restore their role as 'pillars of the community'
• The credit crunch-busting 1937 shopping list that shows you how to feed nine children for £1
• Football League clubs vote for 'home grown' players quota
• Green scene with Sheherazade Goldsmith: Eco shopping in the bag
• Your problems answered
• Defoe heading back to Spurs as stars jump ship at Pompey, says Lauren
• Pound 'set to bounce back to €1.20 in 2009'
• Don't panic if you haven't got the festive food sorted. Four top chefs rate time-saving supermarket ranges
• Body talk: A fine bromance for Michael Douglas and Danny DeVito
• Fergie's men through to Club World Cup Final after goal rush in Yokohama
• Hats off to them: Posh and Becks return home for Christmas in London wearing matching trilbies
• A white Christmas? Well the stoats seem to think so
• Choc-horror: Penny-pinching Cadbury's go from Heroes to zeroes by swapping favourites for dark chocolates
• In which I realise I should have listened to my guardian angels
• Benitez to offer Spurs £7m plus Pennant to take Lennon to Liverpool
• Recipe: Earl grey chocolate mousse with orange blossom cream
• KARL WEST: Mandy must NOT bail out Jaguar. A line should be drawn in the sand, otherwise who will be next?
• Health Notes: The easier way to give up smoking
• Owen will stay at Newcastle for the rest of his career, says boss Kinnear
• We got him! Blackburn chairman insists Big Sam was always the top choice
• You can win the perfect girls night in with Xbox
• Recipe: Layered mint and mocha syllabub
• The Doctor Who's Who: Every previous Time Lord will appear in Christmas special
• Beauty news with Sarah Barclay: Do not disturb
• Game, set and tear it down: Anthea Turner served an order to demolish her £500k tennis court
• Recipe: Rosemary and sea salt white chocolate shards
• Air rage: Residents furious at 'ugly' advertising blimp keep blasting it out of the sky with shotguns
• He was close to a breakdown when composer Howard Blake had the idea for Walking In The Air. The rest is history...
• Pensioner lay on freezing floor for three hours despite string of calls to 999
• Under-fire Scolari sets his sights on delivering trophy treble to Chelsea
• Abolishing leap second could spell the end for GMT in just two years time
• 3D football coming soon: Liverpool in secret Sky television trial
• 'Kingpin' of Rwanda genocide jailed for life by UN court
• Dark desires: Fabulous chocolate works of art
• How do I make someone bankrupt?
• 'Happy Christmas... in this hellhole', Australian prime minister tells his troops in surprise visit to Afghanistan
• World's first flying car on the roads from next year - yours for just £130,000
• Hello boys: Model Sophie Anderton celebrates her newfound singledom surrounded by male models
• Things you don’t know about. . . Champagne
• United prepare to join the list of football's most worthless medal winners along with Spurs, Liverpool, Villa, Derby, Forest, Chelsea, Chesterfield, Stoke, Blackburn and Everton
• Party flats have let me down
• Glad to be grey: Anna May Mangan on accepting her true colours
• AC Milan to offer Beckham an extended Italian job if loan proves a success
• Autistic girl, 5, died after swallowing a balloon
• Two-week-old baby girl fights for life after attack
• Rihanna narrowly avoids wardrobe malfunction as she performs in yet another barely-there outfit
• Gazza 'is learning to be a horse whisperer to beat drink problem'
• DAN ATKINSON: Why save Jaguar but not Woolies? Because New Labour's class system is alive and well
• These are no ordinary nudes, these are... M&S nudes: Staff strip off for Christmas card
• Dame Edna Everage exclusive: My life as a beauty icon
• Nike ups the pace to £254m despite US slip
• Bush shoe thrower offered a 'sole mate'... Egyptian man offers Iraqi 'hero' his daughter, 20, as wife
• Dickensian London, Cybermen and two Doctor Whos: Russell T Davies reveals the secrets of this year's Christmas special
• Horoscopes
• BBC fined £95,000 for phone-in fakery - and conned licence payers foot the bill
• The great Strictly Come Dancing survey: Have your say on the burning questions from the controversial BBC series
• French First Lady Carla Bruni wins damages over bag emblazoned with her nude image
• HATCHET MAN: 'Big Sam' might be feeling a little smaller after ending up at lowly Blackburn
• Gavin & Stacey's Mathew Horne on why he doesn't want children - in case they're ugly
• Nike ups pace to £254m despite US slip
• Government borrowing soars to record £16billion as public finances deteriorate
• Oil price near four-year low in face of Opec cutback threat
• World exclusive: Wallace and Gromit on inventions, love and their new film, A Matter of Loaf and Death
• Hollywood siren Scarlett Johansson dazzles on the red carpet in a plunging frock
• Blue Oar hits out at Evolve pair as gloves come off in hostile bid
• MRSA cases continue to fall (even though hospitals are STILL failing on hygiene standards)
• U2 payout leaves Live Nation $19m down
• Archbishop's sermon to Brown on spending our way out of crisis
• Gamba Osaka 3 Manchester United 5 - Club World Cup semi-final LIVE
• Filming in August didn't stop Dawn French and Julia Sawahla from embracing the Christmas spirit
• U2 payout leaves tour company nursing a $19m loss
• Tottenham must show they won't be neighbours from hell
• Gloves come off in hostile Blue Oar bid
• Toon owner should stay in shadows if all he can say is Joe is better than Fabio
• A glass of wine with your fish 'increases the benefits to your heart'
• US regulator: We failed to stop Madoff
• PICTURED: The moment drink-driver goalie Luke McCormick realises he's a killer
• Strictly favourite Rachel Stevens battles back injury to be fit for the final
• SVG taps up investors as private-equity crisis bites
• Arsenal set for £5m windfall when Pompey's Diarra joins Real Madrid
• Cruise ship rescues stranded couple
• An unfair test on the life insurers
• Snow brings havoc to ski resorts
• Iraqi officials from Saddam Hussein's old party arrested over 'coup plot' against prime minister
• The Muppets meet the Mob: Sopranos stars join forces with Kermit and Miss Piggy for a Christmas special
• Hamburg relish shows Villa can't cut the mustard unless O'Neill recruits back-up
• £1bn bailout on cards for Jaguar and Land Rover
• Arsenal £50m takeover battle: Board row allow Usmanov to own club
• Joe Kinnear given green light for Newcastle recruitment drive
• HATCHET MAN: FA made Manchester United look silly over their Evra defence - Now for Fergie's apology...
• SVG taps up investors as private-equity falters
• Madcap Jim Carrey takes a bath on the David Letterman show with Larry King and a pepper grinder
• Obama hands veteran the job of restoring watchdog's image
• Eco-protesters plot to shut down Heathrow for a day
• Federal funds range
• JAMES SLACK: Jacqui Smith is wrong to blame Boris for her climbdown over directly elected police chiefs
• THAT WAS THE SPORTING WEEK: Hoy's on tour, a taxi for F1 and Fergie for England
• Arsenal £50m takeover battle
• '200 homes a day will be seized' in repossession crisis
• Investors back stock offer by Standard
• Doctor removes 'perfectly formed' FOOT growing inside baby's brain
• MARKET REPORT: M&S and BP tipped to lead the charge to cut dividends
• Holidays hit as pound sinks to all-time low
• Tom Cruise takes to the red carpet for premiere.... but anti-Scientology protesters steal the show again
• On the road (and living the high life) with penny-pinching Manchester City
• Pressure grows on BA as tie-up talks with Qantas ditched
• 3D TV revolution: Sky promises images that leap out of the screen
• Car chase gang fire at police minutes before Royal visit by Princess Anne
• Obama's Wall Street watchdog had link with fraudster's son
• Sarah Brown reveals trauma of her parents' split as she launches campaign to help broken Britain
• 'Serious plans' for £1bn Jaguar bailout
• BA merger talks with Qantas ditched
• 200 more supermarkets to open on Boxing Day
• On the road with ... Manchester United: The trip will live long in the memory, the match may not
• Male circumcision 'may protect women against cervical cancer'
• By gum! A dazzling smile for Camilla at the Olympia Horse Show
• Harman offers cold comfort to savers
• We're SO together... Jennifer Aniston and boyfriend John Mayer stroll arm-in-arm in rare public display of affection
• Middle-earners in the dole queue
• Revealed: Police's SEVEN blunders that let Rachel Nickell madman kill and kill again
• Big Sam's big task - Who will be staying and who's heading for Rovers exit?
• What are the odds on this happening? Gambling capital of the world Las Vegas blanketed in SNOW!
• Obama's pick for new chief of U.S. stock market watchdog 'gave Bernard Madoff's son a job'
• Oil price near four-year low despite Opec cut threat
• The show must go on for Jade Goody as she takes to the stage to play the panto baddie
• British Airways' £4.2 billion Aussie link-up crash lands
• What the back pages say: Chelsea to get Fabiano or Arshavin, Gunners vulnerable to hostile takeover, Gallas hates his life at Arsenal, Toon powerless to stop Owen leaving
• Barack Obama, Time magazine's Person Of The Year, as you've never seen him before
• Stock market report: Thursday close
• 'Besotted' comedian James Corden tries to woo X Factor's Alex with £4,000 Cartier watch
• U-turn on plan to elect police watchdogs
• Doctors warn new 'mad cow' strain could kill 350 Britons
• Why is Katie Holmes looking so gaunt? Mrs Cruise looks worn out on her 30th birthday
• Struggling Jaguar in line for £1bn bailout
• City Interview: Success is all in the details at Sainsbury's
• A dazzling smile for the Duchess at the Olympia Horse Show
• Dairy Crest moves to fill pensions hole
• Simon Cowell reveals his 'regret' over American Idol contestant's suicide
• Morgan finds surprise £2.4bn bonus cash
• Shell OAPs are latest victims of Madoff
• UK needs a Fed-style economic rescue
• Only 300 Woolies stores sold by Deloitte
• Anglo to axe jobs as car demand dips
• Fears of a return to pain of the Eighties
• QPR boss Sousa forced to plan without Parejo as he returns to Real Madrid
• Yesterday's Trading: The ripple which became a storm
• Hatton has his sights on Pacquiao fight and not a Mayweather rematch
• Portsmouth 3 Heerenveen 0: Crouch is too much for Dutch
• Carter eases past Williams in final frame thriller to make Telford semis
• BBC denies planning to axe Last of the Summer Wine
• Turner's earners: All the best bets for Thursday, December 18
• Giant Stranzl fits the bill for Rangers boss Walter Smith
• Losing heat through your head? Discover the barefaced truth about hats and other myths
• Skelton hopes to jump his way to double victory in London show
• The Lords of excess: £18.4m in tax-free expenses claimed for 'unpaid' role in Parliament
• Brit hope Robson a doubt for Australian Open after muscle tear
• Celtic set to discover true value of bad Bhoys Aiden and Artur
• The Irish experiment: Eircom league switch made sense for everyone
• Ferguson: Critics can write me off if they want to... I'm used to it
• New Haringey Council leader asks Government for more funds in wake of Baby P death
• In these credit crunch times, how much would the 12 days of Christmas actually cost?
• DJs sacked after 'porn star' slur on Des O'Connor's daughter
• MARKET REPORT: The ripple which became a storm
• Ambulance and A&E services are 'struggling to cope' so avoid calling 999, says NHS chief
• If I can’t win I won’t play, says Woods as superstar eyes New Year's comeback
• Bad Bhoy McGeady to train with the youth team as Celtic stand their ground
• Hamburg 3 Aston Villa 1: German side humble O'Neill's reserves
• CORRELLI BARNETT: Don't blame our heroic troops, but we leave Iraq in a worse state than under Saddam
• Has Man City's midfield marauder Stephen Ireland finally grown up?
• Fizzling hot Zaynar: Impressive win for new Triumph hurdle favourite
• Not plane sailing for M&S chairman Rose as he raises eyebrows with aircraft use