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• KEVIN TOOLIS: How I came face to face with Taliban teen killers
• Jump for joy! It'll suit you
• Dynasty of decadence: Behind the Romanov's glittering facade lay an epic saga of depravity and unspeakable cruelty
• Defending champion John Part crashes out to US computer man Bill Davis
• MONEY MAIL: The time for forward pricing
• She's the drug abusing Satanic Slut whose fling with Russell Brand led to THAT furore. But is she sorry? Well, up to a point
• Prince Phillip's secret letters to the showgirl
• INVESTMENT EXTRA: Your best bet in the long run might be prefs
• Relieved Cian O'Conner rides Rancorrado to a cracking victory
• Top PR company Brunswick embroiled in £3m share scam
• Fu storms back against Carter to book place in UK showpiece
• Anglo Irish boss Sean Fitpatrick quits over £80m hidden loan scandal
• Those smug round robin letters are the curse of Christmas... but what if the stars got in on the act?
• A plunging pound and property crash have left thousands of expat Britons on the breadline
• Clapped out GM and Chrysler get £11.6billion refuelling... with strings attached
• AMANDA PLATELL: Rachel and this lethal malaise of incompetence
• Mixu's putting his money is on a Hibernian Old Firm Double
• Rescue us, Sam: It's all down to you, says Blackburn chairman
• PETER OBORNE: Darling's last roll of the dice and the spectre of wheelbarrows of banknotes
• MARKET REPORT: Predators on prowl for RSA
• JONATHAN MARGOLIS: Is it possible to reconcile reason with religious faith?
• Order in the House please: Strachan gets fans' majority vote over Aiden row
• Sterling's nosedive shows no sign of slowing
• Holden insists horror leg break won’t be on his mind as he faces McManus again
• DAILY MAIL COMMENT: Shameful betrayal of our public servants
• The best bargain buys from across the country
• Furious row erupts between Treasury and Bank of England over cash injection hints
• Bhoys going ballistic? It all seems very familiar ...
• DAILY MAIL COMMENT: Shameful betrayal of our public servants
• Santa Cruz drops bombshell after revealing desire for a bigger club
• Hooded burglar steals £1.3m of jewellery from Paris Hilton's LA mansion
• I quit, says the magistrate fed up with seeing criminals walk free after a quarter of their sentences
• Mourinho hails super United - but can't help a cheeky swipe at Rooney
• Rangers boss Smith backs gag as referees win truce
• Storm? What storm? Strachan draws veil over McGeady spat
• Store giants to open round the clock in Christmas week to boost flagging sales
• Harry Redknapp opens talks with Middlesbrough over winger Downing
• You've got no respect! Real's sporting director slams Fergie
• The man's guide to last-minute gift buying
• Welcome to ego.com where you can discover just how insane, needy and boring celebrities really are
• Portsmouth defender Lauren set to join the Fratton Park exodus
• Toffs lose out in Arsenal civil war
• Sony's Hallelujah to Alexandra: How The X Factor winner could earn £250,000 for every week she is number one
• Sneak peek: Winehouse, Katona and Britney get the Sunday Night Project treatment in Christmas special
• Craig Bellamy may go from East End lad to City gent
• The gay dad, the lesbian mother who stole their child, and a very modern tug of love
• My horror at police blunders, by headmistress who survived next attack by Rachel Nickell's killer
• To Hull and back: No amount of money will make Ince feel better
• Swindon Town set to go for Gary Speed as Richard Money turns them down
• Bubbly boss Mourinho toasts a corking tie against Fergie and United
• Wigan celebrate after £300k win in police case
• FA keen to make a French connection for 2018 World Cup bid
• ALEX BRUMMER: Wartime divides the allies
• Spurs legend Nicholson is the inspiration for Newcastle boss Kinnear
• Ricky Sbragia is warming to the notion of being Sunderland's number one
• Gary Neville lets fly with another volley aimed at the FA after Evra hearing
• Parks life is the way for Tottenham goalkeeper Gomes
• It's showtime! We're down to the Champions League nitty-gritty
• She was a sex symbol and he was an aloof intellectual. Why did Marilyn Monroe marry a misfit?
• U.S. aim to lure stars away from the Middle East
• The top racing tips for the weekend from Peter Scudamore and Robin Goodfellow
• Wenger still sore: Revenge in the air at Arsenal after Babel 'dive'
• Moore of the same: Numide can foil Aigle D'or again in the Ladbroke
• Forget red, the colours of Christmas future are poinsettias in orange, peach and pink
• What credit crunch, says Prince Harry as he whisks Chelsy off to a £1,000-a-night beach paradise
• Fulham's John Pantsil is forced to say sorry for diving
• Robson: Leaders are the key to another Great Escape for West Brom
• King' Katchit warning: He is not exactly burning up the gallops
• Noble intention to lead his Hammers away from danger
• So is ref Attwell ready for a big call-up?
• As Anglo-Italian clashes dominate Champions League draw we remember those that have tasted life in both nations
• Watch out! We’re so close to Rafa’s idea of the perfect side, says Alonso
• British yachtswoman halts round-the-world race to help injured rival
• 1,400 jobs to go at MFI after administrators call time on 'yet another' credit crunch victim
• Opec urges 'confused' Gordon Brown to cut fuel taxes
• Team news - weekend guide to the Guinness Premiership
• Cost of average home to plummet 30% in 'peak to trough' fall, warns Knight Frank
• Williams is banking on a purple patch after victory at Ascot
• Ellis ban rocks his England chances: Scrum-half out for six weeks
• Sarah Palin left red faced again after her pregnant daughter's future mother-in-law is arrested
• DEBORAH ROSS: Step one. Never, ever read the instructions - and next year, why not just buy them cheese?
• Stocking up on a good joke: STOCKING FILLERS & HUMOUR
• Mather's back at the top and won't lose plot
• TOM SYKES: I'm having an old friend for Christmas lunch... shame I had to kill him first
• O'Neill: UEFA Cup draw could hardly have been worse for Villa
• Make your Christmas a real blockbuster with our DVD guide for all the family
• How can we find the path to happiness?
• Brazil finally produce rubbish footballer: Is Gilberto Spurs' worst ever player?
• We must relax rule on four-hour waiting in A&E because flu is pushing us to limit, say nurses
• Queen's bank Coutts accused of giving disastrous investment advice
• Arsenal boss Wenger fears Roma's attacking threat in quest for European glory
• WEST HAM v Aston Villa: Tristan pushing for a start but Dyer suffers setback
• Married father who was called a 'faggot' in gay taunts by colleagues wins landmark harassment case
• Chinese man hangs girlfriend out the window in lovers' quarrel
• Manchester United hope to get revenge for falling to Mourinho's 2004 vintage Porto
• The year of living stylishly
• Death crash text woman is warned: You're going to jail
• Chelsea still holds a place in the heart of Juventus boss Ranieri
• Dressed to kill Lily Allen goes from trashy to flashy in an hour
• Sir Alex has no respect and we're not signing Ronaldo, says Real Madrid chief Calderon
• WEST BROMWICH v Manchester City: Bednar pushing for Albion starting place
• QEGS Wakefield power to comfortable win to reach last 16 of U18 Cup
• Bolton v PORTSMOUTH: Kaboul and Utaka missing for Pompey
• Gordon Brown urges Britain to become a 'beacon of hope' amid global economic turmoil
• FULHAM v Middlesbrough: Zamora back on the attack for Cottagers
• Upbeat Brown tells City: We'll fight & win
• High Street sales to begin on Christmas Eve
• Bullard's too pricey for Fulham as boss Hodgson admits star may be sold
• Now BBC launches iPlayer for children so they can catch up on their favourite shows
• Sex offenders win landmark ruling that being on register 'indefinitely' breaches their human rights
• Up, up, and away: Head for the hills to find value for money, fresh air and a community spirit
• Juventus have no interest in Arsenal defender William Gallas
• Dawn French's 100-year-old grandmother falls prey to doorstep conmen
• 'Road rage' lord: 'I was stupid and childish to confront driver'
• Booing has made me a stronger individual, insists Arsenal star Eboue
• £930million Volkswagen bet loser refused lifeline by RBS
• Gladiators set to return to Colosseum for first time in 2,000 years
• Pictured: The out of control 4x4 that quite literally caused a pile up
• Hull City v SUNDERLAND: McCarthy ruled out the New Year after surgery
• Magician David Copperfield's assistant sucked into the blades of a giant wind machine as horrified audience looks on
• Anglo Irish Bank reels as bosses quit over loans scandal
• Police shooting of man on Cathedral steps is backed by inquiry
• Car unions demand British bail-out as Bush unveils £11bn rescue package for U.S. firms
• NEWCASTLE v Tottenham: Martins faces late fitness test for Magpies
• Travelling Australia's wilderness trail
• Kelly Osbourne shows off her new hairdo... a short, back and sides
• Anglo Irish bosses quit over loans scandal
• Sneezing a lot? You must be thinking about sex
• American firms now control the UK's nuclear weapons plant
• Arsenal's grand plan in danger of being outflanked
• Newcastle v TOTTENHAM: Pavlyuchenko and Corluka set for recall
• Broody dinosaur daddies looked after the eggs and passed on the habit to birds, say scientists
• Italy v England Champions League draw is far from Fab for Capello
• Father's shock after his seven-year-old son gives carol singers £120
• Anderson admits England will find it difficult to win Test after frustrating day
• GM contaminated crop grown in blunder sparks fears gene will spread to other fields
• University bursar stole £500,000 to fund designer clothes spree
• Chelsea skipper John Terry calls for a festive feast of victories
• Newcastle boss Joe deserves to keep his job beyond this season, says Harry
• Thug jailed after stabbing police officer and his dog during arrest
• GLG buys Societe Generale's UK fund management arm
• Man who battered Alzheimer's wife to death weeks before golden wedding anniversary walks free from court
• Arsenal's principal shareholder Fiszman insists club remains in 'good shape'
• City chief eyes UEFA Cup glory as Hughes is handed Copenhagen test
• And now for the holiday: Fiona Phillips gets her suitcase ready on her first day away from the GMTV sofa
• HARRY PHIBBS: Labour launches the Battle of the Blogs - but it's already losing
• Hope for children with leukaemia as scientists find new way to 'buy time' for transplants
• Woman behaving badly: Leslie Ash unveils her plunging neckline on a night out with husband Lee
• How to find the cheapest Christmas turkey 2008
• HATCHET MAN: Are Blues planning to offload Drogba and bring in Michael Owen?
• Supply headteacher paid £30,000 for just two MONTHS work
• HATCHET MAN: The last thing that Portsmouth need is Lauren in their corner
• Fulham v MIDDLESBROUGH: Digard doubt for Southgate's men with groin injury
• Audience members flee 'pornographic' sex scene in Shakespeare play
• How parents 'overdose their children on cough medicines to keep them quiet'
• Iraqis who 'executed' British soldiers CAN face war crimes trial, judge rules
• The most consistent savings of 2008
• Beating Jose is all the motivation we need, says United manager Sir Alex
• Arsenal midfielder Fabregas caught up in club versus country row
• HATCHET MAN: 'Glamour' friendly with Milan smacks of desperation at Rangers
• Top Tory can keep 'undeserved £14m windfall', judge rules after wife asks for more divorce cash
• Return of the 'Dancing Pig': John Sergeant set to hoof again in Strictly Come Dancing final
• Doctor wins protection from family who kidnapped her and forced her to marry
• Blackburn v STOKE CITY: Pulis waits on Delap, Griffin and Kitson
• We're so in love: Kelly Brook declares her devotion to rugby beau Danny Cipriani
• Divorce is never easy: Thierry Henry on his split from ex-wife Claire Merry
• What's the snag with salary-sacrifice pensions?
• Hamas marks end of six-month Gaza ceasefire by 'firing rockets into Israel'
• Twenty years on from Lockerbie disaster, remains of Pan Am flight lie abandoned in a scrapyard
• How reliable are digital cameras?
• They're a bit special! The ones to watch for in the Champions League
• Best credit cards for New Year debt
• Redknapp underlines need for new faces after Spurs lose their sparkle against Spartak
• Bank of Japan joins the race to 'zero interest' rates
• EVERTON v Chelsea: Anichebe and Saha face late fitness tests
• Why are Customs rules unfair to boat owners?
• Fashion forward: Winners of the YOU style awards 2008
• Eco-friendly schools that can send the class to sleep
• Hopes of green light today for GM and Chrysler rescue plan
• My home is haunted by bad debts
• Bellamy: The way things are going at West Ham I could be sold in January
• Used-car glimmer as Lookers' profits stall
• The whole Hogmanay
• 'Zimbabwe will remain mine and Africa won't dare oust me,' boasts Mugabe
• Newcastle set for a £43m Iceland loss
• Cheryl, Alexandra and co have the legs factor with their shiny PVC-clad pins
• 'It should have been obvious' that the firm was a huge fraud
• A playful kick for Rachel Stevens from dance partner Vincent as they gear up for the Strictly final
• Shearer, Scholes, Zola, who is football's 'ultimate pro'? Here's Sportsmail's top five
• Do you really want David cosying up to this woman, Victoria? Italy's sexiest sports presenter to interview Beckham
• Travel pictures of the week
• Pictured: The cosmic Christmas tree with a REAL star on top
• Woman gives birth to her 18th child... and all their names begin with letter 'J'
• Used-car glimmer as Lookers' profits stall
• Looking forward to a white-ish Christmas: Forecasters say there'll just be a dusting of frost
• Tragedy at Christmas show as actress plunges 25ft to her death
• Christina Aguilera tips her hat to A Clockwork Orange as she rings in her birthday
• Lawyers target funds in bid to get back Madoff scam billions
• Brown delivers grave oil-price warning
• Lehman Brothers broker 'used his wife for her insider trading tips to make millions for former Playboy model'
• Analysis: Wasn't it obvious it was fraud?
• City fall-out hits suburbs and commuter towns
• Cameron Diaz and Essex 'brickie' boyfriend still going strong... as they step out in matchy-matchy outfits
• Don't fancy the washing up? This robot could do the dishes for you
• Space age Routemasters set to make their way back to the streets of London
• On the road with Manchester United... and things are getting a bit fishy in Tokyo
• Parents forced to desert private schools
• ANDY TOWNSEND'S CHAMPIONS LEAGUE REACTION: A good draw for the Big Four - but Arsenal will still struggle to get through
• Our failure to tackle oil crisis will cost trillions of pounds, warns Gordon Brown
• UEFA CUP DRAW LIVE: Spurs draw Shakhtar Donetsk
• India v England scoreboard
• From Saudi Arabia to Barbara Streisand, Bill Clinton's $492million donor list revealed
• Boy trafficked into Britain for slave labour was locked in dark room for 15 months
• Everton v CHELSEA: Carvalho may miss trip to Goodison with knee injury
• Ofwat pares back £27bn record spending
• Mane event: Wild child Pixie Geldof parties the night away in a pink wig
• It's Fuzzy Friday... Why 17million of us are struggling the day after the office Christmas party
• Superdrug leads discount war with cuts of 90%
• England look floored: Series slips away ... and Harmison does, too
• Russell Brand can't wipe the smile off his face as he mingles with Hollywood's A-listers
• MELANIE PHILLIPS: At last Labour admits married parents ARE best for children, but that won't stop them funding the destruction of society
• Madoff force hits funds to retrieve billions
• Girl, 4, awarded £500,000 compensation payout after father shook her so violently she went blind
• Filmed beheadings show Russian neo-Nazis are borrowing tactics from al Qaeda
• MARKET REPORT: Citigroup spots safety in builders amid tough times
• Napper 'murdered 16-year-old teenager less than a year before killing Rachel Nickell' claims ex-Met policeman
• Couple to have Britain's first baby genetically modified to be free of breast cancer gene
• Good Samaritan teenager who salted paths for the elderly is held by police for two hours accused of stealing grit
• HATCHET MAN: Eggert should be paying West Ham for his part in their demise rather than suing the club
• Shadowy hedges may be down, but are they really out?
• Looking for a home built by craftsmen from a bygone age? Railway properties are just the ticket, says Gwenda Brophy
• Laura Ashley like-for-likes shrink by 9%
• 'I don't want to sleep with you': Police publish impossible phrases to say when drunk in drink-DRIVEL campaign
• ARSENAL V Liverpool: Nasri may be back for Gunners after recovering from ankle injury
• Mandelson raises a key question
• Rents falling faster than house prices
• HULL CITY v Sunderland: Loan star McShane ruled out
• Brunswick link to £3.2m insider charges
• Britons defy credit crunch as 3 million fly off for Christmas and New Year
• Desperate Chinese sailors fight off Somali pirates with beer bottles and Molotov cocktails
• Everything must go! Desperate shops slash prices by up to 90% off in desperate battle to survive
• Great Christmas getaway: Mass exodus as millions prepare for TWO-WEEK festive break
• West Ham v ASTON VILLA: Agbonlahor, Young and Barry all back
• Tycoon prepares to sue Coutts for 'losing' millions
• Banks get extra cash to kickstart lending
• Pound slides closer to euro as economic confidence slumps
• Council orders jeweller to throw away £2,000 of gold dust... because it is 'commercial waste'
• Ofwat pares back £27bn record spending
• Bond spreads
• The £100m, two night office Christmas party
• Government must 'act with urgency' to save car industry
• CHAMPIONS LEAGUE DRAW LIVE: Fergie gets the Special One and it's Rafa versus Real
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• Lily Allen looks all grown-up... then flashes her bare bottom at star-studded party
• 'Smoking a cigar and watching Sex And The City season six... suspension is so much fun,' brags Jonathan Ross
• Husband of Brunswick exec admits £3.2m insider charges
• Arsenal v LIVERPOOL: Torres is a week away while Aurelio could be back
• David Villa to Manchester City? That will be £120m - Valencia warn Hughes
• Savers stung again as banks accused of cutting rates on accounts
• When £1 fed a family of nine
• Why am I the invisible man?
• Why a boy has enjoyed his first ever mouthful... on his THIRD birthday
• How British troops triumphed over Taliban fighters who blew up their Christmas turkeys
• BOLTON v Portsmouth: No changes for boss Megson
• Minerals found on Mars suggests life could have survived on Red Planet
• Archbishop's sermon on Brown's spending
• Comment: Jaguar bailout will end in tears
• ALL THE WEEKEND'S PREMIER LEAGUE TEAM NEWS: West Brom v MANCHESTER CITY - Hughes waits on Robinho but Jo could return
• I barely had time to pick a dress: Carla Bruni reveals she and Sarkozy decided to marry just two days before wedding
• What the back pages say: Fergie won't sell Ronaldo, Allardyce to get £10m Blackburn budget, Chelsea in for £20m Fab signing
• Banks paying quarter of savers 1% or less
• Stock market report: Friday close
• Our ordeal at hands of 'British Fritzl': Son breaks silence to tell of abuse and rapes
• Obama picks pastor who opposes gay marriage to speak at his inauguration
• Dancing in the street: Mick Jagger does the Y.M.C.A. as he leaves Christmas party
• Most of us would torture others if ordered to, study reveals
• Cabinet split over Jaguar bailout
• Watergate Deep Throat, the informant who helped topple Nixon, dies at 95
• Royal wardrobe malfunction for Kate Middleton as the hairy one to the throne looks on
• The calamitous blunders that cost three young lives
• SVG asks for £200m after bets go sour
• UK's surging tide of red ink
• Teenager survives brush with deadly snake - thanks to his quick-thinking friends
• £706,000, an apology from the Met and Colin Stagg is still bitter
• Online shopping fuels sales rise
• Sterling slides closer to parity with euro
• How Napper was raped as a boy, disowned by family and inspired by a Victorian horror story
• 'National emergency' for car industry
• Corrupt police constable jailed for trying to blackmail sex offenders
• Walsh sees sun set on failed BA Qantas deal
• We'll cut plastic bags by 50% by spring, say supermarkets
• Brits and Dutch responsible for major bailouts
• Focus: Tall order for US bank watchdogs
• Three wives, 69 years on stage, 14 blueberries for on top of his porridge... Yes, it's Brucie by numbers
• Carry On actor Jack Douglas dies, aged 81
• Yesterday's trading: Retailers lifted by rising sales
• Rangers skipper Ferguson is living proof that the boss doesn't always win
• Cost of translators for benefit claimants rises by 40% over four years
• Skipper uses his defensive skills to play down McGeady spat
• ALEX BRUMMER: It's hard to think of a less worthy bailout than Indian-owned Jaguar
• It's a Greek tragedy for SPL as Scotland lose their Euro ticket
• Games seasonal round-up
• Sibir soothes investor ire at 'mad' property purchase
• The Hallelujah chorus: Three versions of same song vie to be Christmas number one
• Racing Santander 3 Man City 1: Hughes headache as City slump
• Sub-prime lender Cattles sees shares rise as it rides out debts warning
• Gonzo - The Life And Times Of Dr Hunter S. Thompson: More fear and loathing, please
• McGeady row could cost us the title: Skipper McManus says champions must focus
• Livid SFA accuse SPL of breaking fixture protocol
• The Tale of Despereaux: Here's one mouse that you won't want to kill