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• MARKET REPORT: Too little, too late from the Footsie
• Wigan tell Real that Valencia will cost £20m as Pennant revives Madrid move
• Bye bye to the bad Bhoy? Right time for gamblers to take a punt on McGeady
• Asda sees late surge in 'dull but worthy' Christmas gifts
• Israel rolls its tanks into Gaza to storm Hamas rocket bases
• Financial turmoil wipes £65bn off FTSE 100 pension plans
• EXCLUSIVE: Chelsea at war - Scolari blows his top during furious inquest
• Blundering bankers snubbed in New Year's honours list
• Hull City 0 Aston Villa 1: Own goal by Zayatte is a winner for O'Neill
• Shareholders back £1.3bn Imperial Energy deal
• This 75p insult: 'Pay rise' for thousands of poor pensioners in care homes leaves them worse off than convicts
• Tycoon Robert Tchenguiz faces further investment pain
• Doctor in demand: David Tennant now the biggest stage draw in Britain
• Bolton boss Megson eyes Morrison and Davenport double transfer raid
• Sterling continues its slide down global currency league table
• WBA set to probe Russian giant Valuev's points win over Holyfield
• Hearts livid as SFA reject Zaliukas' red card appeal
• Sneak Peek: The moment Emmerdale's Jasmine nearly confesses to killing Shane
• KINGSLEY AMIS: How to shtay shober tonight... if you really musht!
• You learnt it all at school - but how much do you remember? Test your knowledge with these fascinating facts
• Spurs offered former Liverpool man Luis Garcia should Downing bid fail
• Debt-stricken Debenhams looking at fundraising plans
• Hatton will fight Filipino Pacquiao in £40m Las Vegas battle
• PETER REID'S THAI TAKEAWAY: I miss FA Cup but not the late goal in Hanoi
• Wenger eyes Everton's Mikel Arteta as Cesc Fabregas cover
• Naismith's clearance: Rangers star in line for shock call at Inverness
• U.S. gives a further £4bn to revive General Motors
• How the 'worst' got better for hungry Manchester United striker Berbatov
• Troubled Steven Gerrard earns Benitez and England backing
• Rookie bowlers, an ageing opener... it's looking grim for the Ashes
• ALEX BRUMMER COMMENT: Mandarins take charge
• Sex offenders, terrorists and fraudsters turn to the web as online crimes soars to £2billion a year
• From the woman with the longest showbiz legs to a gunslinger who parted the Red Sea, the late and great of 2008
• MAX HASTINGS: 2008's a year we'll never forget, however much we want to
• Shambolic Paul Weller is pictured lying in the gutter after drunken night out with young lover
• Defeated Aussies in disarray (now that should bring a smile to your lips)
• Shame of Mr Perfect: Steven Gerrard's image was as good as it gets
• Turner's Earners - all the best bets for Thursday, January 1
• Brook's familiar: Kelly recycles Billy Zane's favourite bikini on holiday with Danny Cipriani
• Law firm in race row with links to Labour's Keith Vaz is closed by watchdog
• Old friends, new faces: The movers and shakers in racing for 2009
• Cockerill in Leicester hotseat as Meyer flies home to South Africa
• England's faulty wings are ready for another attempt at take-off
• Mac was the year that was: The highs and lows of 2008 - as seen through the eyes of the Mail's incomparable cartoonist
• Murrays in elite company by joining same management as David Beckham
• Murray ready to muscle in on the majors as Scot looks to emulate Fred Perry
• Barney hangs on as Baxter buckles and Mardle Stomped in check-out crisis
• Wooden Spoon Award: BT is Top of the Flops for 'worst customer service' in the UK
• £60,000 a year: That's how much the recession is costing every family
• A spanking year: Part one of Alan Fraser's top 50 moments of 2008
• Goals, fewer slaps... What are the top flight's New Year's resolutions?
• Get a good deal when junior starts saving
• Mia Farrow mourns the death of adopted daughter Lark Previn on Christmas Day
• Use vouchers now to try and beat the High Street struggle
• The student who popped out to the shops ... and returned to find he was £100billion overdrawn
• The top ten signings of 2008 cost £221.8m - but were they all worth it?
• Beijing heroes set for Palace return after New Year's honours triumph
• Full list of sporting honours: Hoy leads the way as Britain rewards its heroes
• Happiness is contagious (but so is smoking and snacking)
• Revealed: Madonna donated staggering £2million to Kabbalah groups in one year alone
• Bad news for Hull, Sunderland and Wigan - the stripes just don't have it
• Britain faces gas shortage as Putin tells Ukraine to settle unpaid bill
• Recipe: Sticky chicken strips with spicy spelt pilaf
• The heart that grew back: ‘Miracle’ of girl whose heart healed itself after a third was removed in emergency operation
• THE LIST: 30-21 of football's best-ever transfer deals
• Ted Lapidus, 'poet of French couture', dies from leukaemia aged 79
• 'Double excellent' Homerton hospital breaches Government hygiene rules
• First impressions count: How a change of clothes changed our lives
• My Body and I: Writer and broadcaster Mariella Frostrup's wellbeing secrets
• The 'nanny state' guide to giving children of five alcohol
• 'Dinosaur City': World's largest fossil site unearthed in China
• Staring death in the face: The truth behind BASE jumping
• Things you don’t know about. . . Hypnosis
• PICTURE SPECIAL: Becks starts at Milan as Ronaldinho tells him to stay
• This Life: Tanya Byron on the weighty matter of her husband's health
• Israeli Navy rams Gaza-bound aid boat, forcing it to dock in Lebanon
• Iraq opens Saddam Hussein house of horrors museum on anniversary of dictator's hanging
• Staff at hospital which ignored dying man for six hours posed as Hollywood stars for calendar shoot
• David Beckham shows off two new tattoos including the one 'Posh begged him not to get'
• Couple who took baby son with them on seven-hour drinking session escape jail
• Pictured: Inside the squalid home of the recluse 'left to die by ambulancemen'
• It's A Man's World: Shaun White
• F1 billionaire Bernie Ecclestone and estranged wife reunite for Christmas... so is the biggest divorce in British history off?
• Teens jailed after Facebook feud sparks youth club shooting
• 3,000 people a week 'will go bust' next year
• Southgate: None of my players will be leaving Middlesbrough in January
• Rooney satisfied with United's progress in a three-horse race for the title
• It all adds up: The square route to finding Mr Right
• Ministers' pension pots worth TEN times private sector average (and guess who's paying for them)
• Ukraine faces gas supplies threat from Gazprom
• British tourist dies as bus taking him and wife to Marrakech crashes
• YOU Reading Group for January: The House at Midnight by Lucie Whitehouse
• We're shocked at our comeback success, say Take That as they open up in revealing interview
• McCarthy warns Blackburn team-mate Santa Cruz against January move
• Primary school brings out DVD to teach pupils how to blow their noses and control sneezes
• Yorkshire spinner Rafiq gets a passport and can legally play for England
• Gavin and Stacey stars Mathew Horne and James Corden move to the big screen in lesbian vampire spoof
• Bolton recall defender Nicky Hunt from Birmingham as Megson seeks cover
• Alcoholic liver disease soars among the young as hospital admissions more than double
• ‘We could have lost everything when my husband's business collapsed’
• Fashion: The future is now
• Blackburn tell Villanueva: You aren't wanted here anymore
• Digitally remastered John Lennon takes part in ad campaign 'from beyond the grave'
• Depor consider taking Rangers striker Nacho Novo home to Spain
• Next year set to be one of the warmest on record
• Collapse of supplier is sour note for WH Smith
• West Ham flop Faubert tipped for a return to France with Nantes
• Health notes: Small changes, big difference
• Pennant could still trade Liverpool for Madrid as Atletico move for winger
• Mother arrested after three young sisters are found home alone on Christmas Eve
• Collapse of supplier is sour note for WHS
• Stoke chairman Coates insists Fuller was wrong but still has future at club
• Beauty news with Sarah Barclay: Takeout treats
• Belhadj completes his £4.4m permanent transfer from Lens to Portsmouth
• Becks starts his AC career with an armed guard and a pat on the back
• Teacher training applicants up 40% as finance sector workers turn to more stable jobs
• As Britain faces recession Whitehall mandarins lavish £320,000 on plasma TVs, hi-fi equipment and DVD players
• West Brom defender Neil Clement to miss rest of the season with knee injury
• Father charged with murder of daughter, 11, who died after walking 10 miles through snow on Christmas Day
• Horoscopes
• Cameron's riposte to Brown's 'Blitz spirit' call: You are bombing us to bankruptcy
• Hundreds of estate agents go month without sale
• Newcastle and Middlesbrough on Kenny alert after keeper is transfer listed
• In a taxi with… Life on Mars's throwback cop Philip Glenister
• Tory activists want to bring back the 'big beasts' for Cameron's cabinet
• Make-up masterclass: Kiss it better
• How backbench MPs' foreign junkets cost us £1.4m
• Magpies join Stoke, Everton and Spurs in race to sign Cardiff midfielder Ledley
• YouTube condemned for showing video clips glorifying Nazi troops and Hitler
• Juventus set their sights on Chelsea pair of Ivanovic and Malouda
• Chelsea youngster Sahar's move to Utrecht falls through after clubs could not agree terms
• Redknapp: I'd rather my players fight each other than not care
• Who do you think you are, Stirling Moss?: Taking on the legendary Mille Miglia
• Green scene: It's time to improve your office environment
• Cheryl Cole voted coolest female celebrity by teenage fans... as Becks loses his crown to Theo Walcott
• Rail users facing fare increases of an inflation-busting 11% - a 'national scandal', claim unions
• Wigan winger Valencia 'would jump at chance' to join Spanish giants Real Madrid
• Catch of the day: How a tiny kingfisher caught six different types of fish in two hours
• Travel pictures of the year
• Elisabeth Fritzl and her children leave hospital eight months after being freed from incest cellar
• Is this the most fun job in the world? The man who travels the globe testing holiday resort waterslides
• Cinderella panto star Jennifer Ellison appears to have found her slippers... and she's wearing them in the street
• EXCLUSIVE: McCarthy to steal a march on Leeds by signing loan Ranger Gow
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• HATCHET MAN: Shot-shy United are making an Arsenal of trying to win the title
• Princess Haya of Jordan: A modern Arabian tale
• Fur-loving Agyness Deyn set to provoke further controversy as she steps out in 'Cruella De Vil' coat
• Mini test: The Hyundai i20 1.2 Classic Manual is a frisky little mover
• Japan expects worst economic showing since 1974
• Win a five-star London theatre break!
• Your problems answered
• I'm not a Leona Lewis wannabe, insists X Factor winner Alexandra as she embraces new celebrity lifestyle
• Hunt on for Igor the runaway beaver who is leaving a trail of destruction throughout Devon
• House prices falling at record 12.2%
• Lloyds-HBOS merger faces pension hurdle
• Tom Chambers celebrates Strictly Come Dancing win with the new Fiat 500
• Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of Bloopers: Indy sequel tops 2008 list of movie mistakes
• British couple given year's hard labour for 'criticising' Gambian government
• Queen goes green as her £10million Bentleys are converted to run on biofuel
• New blow for housing market as prices plummet by a record 12.2% in a year
• Serie A outfit Lazio favourites to snap up City's unsettled Brazilian Elano
• Why I’m buzzing back to retail heaven
• Briatore insists: QPR are still on course for the Premier League but we're in no rush to get there
• HATCHET MAN: Look Hughes joined the list of deluded bosses
• Council issues OAP with court threat over wild chickens that have taken roost in his garden
• Debenhams seeks cash to cut £1bn debt mountain
• The life of Riley: Why Sam's taking control of 2009
• Fewer teachers would go sick if disruptive pupils were kicked out
• Gerrard's England place in jeopardy if he is convicted over assault and affray charge
• 'Heli-skiing? Did that yesterday...': Kate Hudson reveals her adventurous side
• Um, you know: How Caroline Kennedy botched her debut TV interview
• HATCHET MAN: Blinkered Brown could end up in a Hull of a position if he doesn't get real
• 'Zombie' driver warning over call for introduction of car speed-limiting devices
• Ant and Dec's bid to crack the U.S. hits a stumbling block after game show is cancelled
• Derby chairman Pearson describes Clough as 'an impressive young man'
• Missed chances could cost United the title, warns Ferguson
• Stressed NHS staff 'must show more compassion to patients'
• Property expert Kirstie Allsopp’s revamped home truths
• In which I realise I am, literally, falling apart
• Stepping out with the best of them
• New York court move offers hope of Madoff payout for British investors
• HATCHET MAN: Harry's hurting Spurs chairman Levy by trying to bring Defoe back to the Lane
• Gordon Brown tells of day he invited notorious burglar into his parents' home
• Sneak peek: Transformers returns in biggest joint military operation movie of all time
• Debenhams seeks cash to cut huge debts
• Middle-class homeowners fear they won't be able to pay the mortgage
• Nearly half of all speed cameras are switched off, admit police
• Modfather Paul Weller 'avoids arrest' after he and girlfriend lay sprawled in the street following drunken night out
• Shops 'will keep on slashing prices'
• Zavvi vouchers rejected by stores
• Wenger: Arsenal are still capable of winning the Premier League title
• Japan expects worst showing since 1974
• End of an era as world's oldest Woolworths closes its doors for the last time
• Trig, Track - now Tripp joins the Palin brood after Sarah's daughter has a boy
• Sony cuts the cost of making PlayStation games console
• Tottenham may have to look elsewhere after West Ham reject £12m Bellamy bid
• Diplomat's scorn at 'provincial' Scottish football team which crashed out of 1978 World Cup
• NY court move offers hope of Madoff payout
• House price slump misery for UK builders: Tuesday close from London Stock Exchange
• How Callaghan put off an early election he might have won to 'maliciously' spite the Tories
• Sony to fight Wii by cutting PS3 costs
• Recipe: Fragrant duck breasts with wild rice pilaf
• Drogba pleads to partner Anelka and hints at 'surprises' over Chelsea future
• Ryanair slashes fares in price war
• Insurers facing a legal hurricane
• Over-inflation rail rises a 'national scandal'
• Gordon Brown 'totally against' relaxing law on assisted suicide
• Scolari planning a £10m Chelsea move for Marseille star Hatem Ben Arfa
• Lloyds-HBOS merger faces pension hurdle
• Middle classes in fear of mortgage crisis
• Carling Cup could keep Gomes at Spurs but PSV want their old keeper back
• Motorists face 'fit-to-drive' health checks every 10 years
• Euro parity on cards as pound remains weak
• Shares in Premium suspended but 'bank deal near'
• Book claims Aitken is of royal blood
• Hands buys cattle ranches from Packers
• Shhhh! As the world waits for Obama to voice his opinion on Gaza, America's President-elect hits the golf course
• 'Compromise' as Church of England proposes to bring in women bishops within five years
• US car shares leap as GM gets lifeline
• Premium suspended but 'bank deal near'
• Mothers protest at Facebook ban on 'offensive' breastfeeding photos
• MAIL COMMENT: Now is the winter of discontent - we've been here before
• Heskey to miss Tottenham cup clash with hamstring injury
• Guy Hands buys Aussie cattle ranches from Packer family
• Gunners in £8m Given bid but Spurs set to offer cash plus Bale for Magpies star
• Suri Cruise shows off her latest fashion accessory - her rainbow blanket collection
• GM finance unit is given $6bn lifeline by U.S. Treasury
• Christmas day tragedy as couple die of suspected carbon monoxide poisoning
• Spurs rule out Arsenal tug of war for Russia star Arshavin
• Tories to purge town hall 'fat cats' in crackdown on six-figure salaries
• MAIL COMMENT: The report cards are back and teachers must do better
• Patients will be able to rate and review performance of their GPs on new NHS website
• What the back pages say: Spurs want Bellamy or Defoe and not Arshavin, Wenger tables £8m bid for Given to annoy Tottenham, Drogba set to leave Chelsea, Derby target Ince
• Stock market report: Tuesday close
• Champs and Chumps 2008: PIERS MORGAN'S guide to who was hot and who was not in the world of celebrity
• South Africa one win away from ruling the world after crushing Australia
• Happy stressmas: We asked a woman and her mother-in-law to wear stress monitors for three days over Christmas
• QinetiQ's £12bn contract intrigues NAO
• Bond yields give £3bn pension fund boost
• Sterling: The silent devaluation of the pound
• Say cheese! The smiling shark whose 'Cheshire Cat' grin won an international photography award
• Sterling falls to record low against euro
• X Factor's Diana is NOT in love with Eoghan, insists her ex-boyfriend as he vows to win her back
• Russia threaten to withhold Ukraine gas
• IMF raises spectre of Depression for UK
• Imperial dash to wrap up £1.3bn sell-off
• Council tells homeowners: 'We've ignored your objections to traveller site ... because you're racist'
• Sterling turmoil 'likely to delay rate cuts'
• £5.7bn scramble to pay off home loans
• Designer clothing chain USC unravels
• Yesterday's Trading: Sweet hopes for sugar substitute
• We now worry for two hours a day (and it's all because of the credit crunch)
• City Focus: 2008, a turning point in history
• Benefit fraud up as convictions fall
• Celebrity Mastermind contestants are given crib sheets, reveals radio presenter
• NHS spends £45m on special equipment for obese patients
• Bond yields give £3bn boost to biggest pension funds
• CITY FOCUS: 2008, a turning point in history
• 'I would do anything for my man,' declares smitten Kelly Osbourne
• Taylor rediscovers the big hits to leave Painter powerless
• 'We will fight you to the bitter end': Israel poised to invade Gaza in all-out war with Hamas
• MARKET REPORT: Sweet hopes for sugar substitute