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• Benni McCarthy must score more to stay at Blackburn, says Sam Allardyce
• Students squeezed by £400m cutback: Middle classes face higher fees and lower grants
• Leicester City chairman Milan Mandaric set to face tax evasion charges
• Savings of up to 70% for panic-buyers as stores launch early sales
• Freed, the mother wrongly accused of killing her baby
• Glimmer of hope for Sara Payne as she fights for her life after brain surgery relapse
• I lost three best friends and almost died in the tsunami... how could my husband then walk out on me?
• Premier League club stand by manager caught in brothel scandal
• An open door! Exiled trio are offered return by new Scotland boss Levein
• DAILY MAIL COMMENT: A time for families
• Brazil striker Adriano snubs January switch to strugglers West Ham
• DAILY MAIL COMMENT: Perverse privacy law protects the immoral
• Russia star hits out at Everton slump: We can't pass or hold on to a lead
• STEPHEN GLOVER: Max Mosley, abhorrent behaviour and how the law protects the rich and powerful
• Forget those who say religion's irrelevant. Spirituality is making a comeback - and thank heaven for that
• A-Z of Christmas fashion sales: Make sure you don’t miss a bargain with our guide
• Me and my wardrobe: I'm lucky I'm a size eight to ten so skinny jeans look best on me, says Anthea Turner
• Still fretting about that present that didn't arrive? We go undercover at Royal Mail to find out what really goes on...
• Two die in freezing Christmas Day M6 car crash... as forecasters predict warmer temperatures
• Ancelotti has to win with kids: Anelka ruled out of crunch Christmas games
• Being a Premier League manager is bad for your health, warns Martinez
• Don't panic! Follow Marcus Wareing's countdown for a cracking Christmas
• EXCLUSIVE: Rafa pulls a Christmas quacker! Liverpool want to sign 'placenta doctor'
• HMV turns up volume on live music
• Formula that gives you the cracker knack
• Liverpool spoke to Mancini about him replacing Rafa, claims City chief Cook
• MARKET REPORT: BT declines on scrappy selling
• FTSE in-depth: BT declines on scrappy selling
• Carol Vorderman on how it feels to have your birthday during the festive season
• Rafa Benitez in Liverpool crisis talks with sinking skipper Steven Gerrard
• Commodities trader plans £21.9bn float
• View from Planet Bloke: The best Christmas I ever had? Two mates, no women, no hassle
• Britons will eat 1,000 miles of chipolatas this weekend. If they knew what was in them, they might think again...
• Hollywood actress Susan Sarandon splits from partner of 23 years Tim Robbins
• Beautiful women too complicated? Dream on, Adrian Chiles
• ALEX BRUMMER: Lessons of a higher order
• No room for Rudolph and chums on souped-up Santa's 21st Century sleigh
• AstraZeneca buys French antibiotics firm for £300m
• Let Me Entertain You! Robbie Williams turns cheeky choir boy for Ant and Dec's TV Christmas special
• LIZ JONES: The award for worst dressed celebrity of the year goes to...
• Schumacher warns Lewis Hamilton and the young guns: I aim to win the F1 title
• Chinese snap up Volvo from Ford
• DAILY MAIL COMMENT: Human rights laws favour the wrongdoer
• Will Wolves giant Maierhofer serve up extra stuffing at Liverpool?
• Lloyds Banking Group in New Year reshuffle
• Room at the inn? Extraordinarily realistic Nativity mural painted on pub wall
• Fergie leaves Bea and Eugenie behind to spend Christmas in the Arctic with her millionaire boyfriend (and his ex-wife)
• Lloyds Banking Group in New Year reshuffle
• AstraZeneca buys French antibiotics firm Novexel
• John Motson: Top 10 Noughties football crackers I'll never forget
• Chinese snap up Volvo from Ford
• Commodities trader Glencore plans £21.9bn float
• The man with a pocketful of laughter: Mail cartoonist Mahood finally hangs up his quill
• Minnie Driver brightens up sad occasion by wearing red dress to father's funeral
• The Data Bank: All the best racing bets for Boxing Day
• Lessons of a higher order
• Captured in nature, the perfect Christmas card
• CITY INTERVIEW: Cadbury boss on God, bids and Hershey
• City interview: Cadbury boss on God, bids and Hershey
• SPORTS QUIZ ANSWERS
• PETER SCUDAMORE: All the best bets for this festive weekend
• Imperial Commander trying to upstage Kauto Star in big Boxing Day meet
• QUIZ: Can you answer 10 questions from each year of the past decade?
• Winter warmers: How to stay stylish and snug in the snow
• Big-hitting Fijian Seru Rabeni ready to tackle poverty in his homeland
• Stuart Broad: My attitude is fine, I just want to win for England in South Africa
• 'Tremendous pride' - tributes paid at funeral for 100th British soldier killed in Afghanistan this year
• Dragons' Den Producer Martyn Smith
• England hero Pietersen happy to play the panto villain in native South Africa
• LORRAINE CANDY: When did it become acceptable for people to be so rude to one another in public?
• Looking for a loving home, the 13 pups of Christmas
• CHRIS FOY: Premiership crowd surge hits record 155,000 mark
• Trio of tracks to beat the freeze
• That's the Ender Archie, then! Albert Square villain dead after being hit over head with Queen Vic bust (but who's the killer?)
• History in your garden: Pomegranate (punica granatum)
• CRAIG BROWN: The pudding's not the only one letting off steam
• MONTY DON: A garden plan for all seasons
• Sun and moon 'set off deep tremors on San Andreas fault'
• Ambulance crash with car leaves woman dead and passenger seriously injured
• Mame Biram Diouf granted work permit and is free to make United debut
• 'A bright light is forever dimmed:' Brittany Murphy is laid to rest in Christmas Eve service
• New Year party recipes: Raspberry meringue kisses
• 'I hope doctors will tell me I'll be able to walk again': Christmas wish of major injured in Afghanistan bomb blast
• 'Secret Santa' hands out $10,000 to complete strangers
• Hetherington extra: 'land banking' companies
• Anthrax contamination fears as third drug user found with traces of the bacteria in their blood
• Graeme Dickson: Weekly stock market round-up
• Midas extra: Review of the year
• All aboard the polar express: Steam locomotive takes home passengers stranded by snow-delayed modern trains
• New Year party recipes: Tomato, feta and olive bites
• New Year party recipes: Chorizo and red pepper tortilla
• Britain's kindest gran: At 90, she forks out £800 to buy gifts for all 200 members of her family
• 'Broke' Kerry Katona does her Christmas shopping budget style at Argos
• Internet abduction: a mother recalls the nightmare of her daughter's disappearance
• Beauty confidential: How do I stop my make-up from sliding off by lunchtime on Christmas Day?
• Double your money - West Ham warn Gold and Sullivan to forget cut-price bid
• Gordon Ramsay's favourite local: The F Word's back - and looking for our best neighbourhood restaurant
• It happened to me: I was sent to Australia as a child migrant
• YOU's January reading group: Their Finest Hour and a Half by Lissa Evans
• Spurs and Arsenal on alert as hot shot Pandev can leave Lazio for nothing
• Kraft will face competition for Cadbury, says Stitzer
• Sigourney Weaver: Who said you're past it at 60?
• The age I am: YOU's work experience girl Emily Kutchinsky, 17
• Amy Winehouse charged with assault after alleged attack on theatre manager
• Bank could deliver new £25bn injection
• Christmas came early in U.S. city as shoppers given $100 by secret Santa
• Mark Wahlberg: I left the mean streets for Hollywood
• Alice Eve brings a bit of British class to the Sex and the City sequel
• Website of the Week: The travel sites that impressed us most during 2009
• Prince Charles grants dying woman's last wish to visit his gardens at Highgrove
• Discover the Yorkshire Moors and Coast
• Michael Aspel: TV drives me barmy!
• British hostages to be kept over Christmas 'and fed chips'
• Makeup masterclass: Renew you
• Arsenal and Hull hit with FA charge over their mass brawl at the Emirates
• THE MIDLANDER: The good, the bad and the ugly: 2009 Midlands' awards
• Revealed: The fantasy world of the White House gatecrashers
• Joan Collins plays detective in a new Miss Marple TV thriller
• Bruce to stick with starlet Henderson despite return of Cana and Cattermole
• Berlusconi says he forgives his attacker but urges courts to 'not make any allowances'
• Watford saved! Hornets pay off £5m loan to end threat of administration
• Arnold Stang, voice of Top Cat, dies aged 91
• Civil servants paid £130m in bonuses: Record rewards handed out despite downturn
• Heineken downgrades value of UK pubs' business
• British soldier missing in Tenerife weeks before being deployed to Afghanistan
• 'I've never had a plan B': actress Zoe Tapper reveals her survival tactics
• Discover the Yorkshire Dales and Harrogate
• Chelsea have the personality Roman craved, insists Blues boss Ancelotti
• Lovely weather for a sleigh ride together with you: Russell Brand and Katy Perry enjoy snowy Hampstead Heath... and narrowly miss knocking down boy
• Noughties but nice: Entertainment highlights of the past 10 years
• New Year party recipes: Moroccan fishcakes with harissa yoghurt dip
• Rudolph the baby seal discovered in family's back garden... 18 miles from the sea
• Could your life story end up a bestseller?
• Button was not sacked to make way for Schumacher insists Brawn
• Undiscovered Spain: A journey into Jaen, Andalucia's forgotten jewel
• Ex-Merseyside star Abel Xavier gives up football and converts to Islam
• Mr X, the football boss caught in a brothel: His name's all over the internet but British press can't identify manager in massage parlour
• New Year party recipes: Anyone for a midnight nibble?
• James Ellroy on writing about his mother's murder and why his novels will always shock
• Add a little quirk to Santa's stockings... STOCKING FILLERS
• KPMG: Pensions return 2.25% over a decade
• Wolves boss Mick brushes off January bid for Newcastle striker Carroll
• Mission impos-sleighbell? Children can track Santa's journey online
• Climate change protesters must pay compensation for damaging statue in Houses of Parliament
• Teenage fiction from 2009
• Heard the one about the grumpy Welsh dwarf, the smutty Wogan storybook and Britain's best cartoonist?
• Family of Mexican marine slaughtered in revenge attack over raid that killed drug lord
• Blackberry network crashes leaving users without email for second time in week
• Beauty Bible Beauty Clinic
• Happy Christmas, gorgeous!
• Ant and Dec get dolled up with former Spice Girl Geri Halliwell for a Christmas special
• Money lending rose last month to both businesses and homebuyers
• SCREAMER LIVE: Adriano snubs Hammers - plus more from football world
• Parents make Christmas plea for donors for three-year-old son with rare heart condition
• The top ten best gadgets of 2009
• Six more politicians facing expenses fraud charges as police hand over new files
• THE LIST: Sporting moments of the year - Nos 20-11
• Hamilton geared up for challenge of 'legend and nice guy' Schumacher
• Number of children treated for cocaine addiction rises 50% since 2006
• Japanese student charged with murdering British teacher Lindsay Hawker
• Demanding Evra calls for 100 per cent record from United's festive fixtures
• Roger Federer gives fans a treat by releasing a new picture of his adorable twin daughters
• Nicole Kidman incurs wrath of neighbours after planting 150 leylandii trees to protect privacy
• Fergie could be set to mentor Guardiola as Barca boss is linked with Man United
• DYLAN JONES: Back pain - who's being squeezed?
• Pension fund returns of less than 2.25% over a decade 'will put savers off'
• Stick-thin Alexa Chung tops Vogue's list of the world's most stylish women
• U.S. teen convicted of sexual assault for persuading classmates to send nude pix to Facebook
• Parents' fury as failed asylum seeker who killed 12-year-old girl in hit-and-run wins court bid to stay in Britain
• But can she sing? Prima Donna the Jack Russell dog wins 'Germany's Got Talent'
• Chemotherapy cooking classes help patients overcome pain of eating
• Leave Rafa alone! Liverpool players must shoulder blame, blasts Gerrard
• Flintoff ready to pick up a bat next month - but has longer wait to bowl
• American Airlines flight to Jamaica from Miami overshoots runway during storm
• Iran crushes protests as crowds mourn rebel cleric for third day
• JAMES MARTIN: Why the sleek Vauxhall Astra 1.4 Turbo SE is good enough for the boss
• The best (and simplest) pre-pay mobiles
• Do hearts have memories? Transplant patient gets craving for food eaten by organ donor
• Brown accused of dodging Iraq probe: PM won't face Chilcot until after the election
• Abbey glitch leaves thousands with no pay
• HARRY PHIBBS: Universities must look to gain financial independence to avoid target-driven cuts
• 'Batboat' takes on the whalers... and loses: Hi-tech trimaran 'Ady Gil' sheared in half after being rammed by Japanese vessel
• Thousands of robins killed at Christmas to make illegal Cypriot delicacy
• Susan Boyle fires snowballs at the paparazzi in a playfight outside her home - as album sales continue to soar
• Greece's credit rating cut for third time
• Levein finally agrees deal as Scotland manager after quitting Dundee United
• Anelka blow leaves Ancelotti facing life without his top three Chelsea forwards
• Terry Wogan: The mic's off? Right, where do I begin...
• Five men jailed over sham investments
• Chelsea hand Ivanovic new deal but Serbia coach touts his move to Madrid
• Weekend dilemma: A dream holiday - with a catch
• '30 years on, we still don't know who abducted our son': Agony of parents of schoolboy who vanished in 1979
• As Michael Schumacher confirms his F1 return, Sportsmail lists the greatest sporting comebacks of all time
• World's oldest plant is 13,000-year-old oak that survives by cloning itself
• Rift between Brown and Mandelson could torpedo Labour election fightback
• Mourinho's mind games won't work on us, says Chelsea midfielder Ballack
• Horoscopes special: Find out what the planets have in store for you in 2010
• Mancini ready to make old pal Cordoba his first signing at Manchester City
• Robert De Niro: How I feel about fatherhood
• Gerard Depardieu quizzed over claims he smashed up car
• Arctic Britain falls to -16C as Christmas getaway descends into chaos
• Homecare firms in takeover feud
• Man United lose another Busby Babe as winger Albert Scanlon dies aged 74
• MPC meeting reveals doubt over QE
• Is panto taking its toll? A make-up free Pamela Anderson arrives to work looking tired and worn out
• England are Zin trouble! Zidane set to hand Algeria his World Cup expertise
• Eurostar chaos opens door to rivals
• Ryanair plane skids off runway at Prestwick Airport after hitting patch of ice
• Bill Clinton 'just minutes away from Al-Qaeda assassination'
• FTSE 100 close: Oil firms up, QE news disappoints
• Christmas travel update: delays expected at airports across the UK
• Hiddink has six million reasons to stay with Russia as Abramovich picks up bill
• Home for Christmas! Eurostar clears backlog but restricted service goes on
• Hero's last kiss: Families' grief as Wootton Bassett salutes another three soldiers
• First look at the Karate Kid remake as official trailer is released
• Mayweather's showdown with Manny Pacquiao 'is off' according to promoter
• Fluffy snow (and Eurostar chaos)
• Fancy seeing you here! The who's who of Hollywood head for the celeb hangout of Aspen
• Hear me roar! Rihanna's really wild photoshoot with a big cat
• Analysis: Why Britain is still in recession
• Bassong boost for Redknapp as Spurs star is left out of Cameroon squad
• Astronauts follow Apollo 8 crew's example by spreading Christmas cheer in space
• Schumacher back in F1 after sealing incredible return with Mercedes
• 888's £60m Wink buy
• Tariff extension for shoes from China and Vietnam
• Hotel review: The Light ApartHotel, Manchester
• What the back pages say: Fernando Torres pleads for new players at Anfield, Craig Bellamy clashes with new City boss, Hoddle set for Reading job
• The girls are back! First glimpse of Sex And The City 2
• OFT retreat on bank charges not all bad
• Villa gives United and Chelsea green light to take him to Premier League
• Hoddle in the frame for Reading job as ex-England boss emerges as top target
• Levein finally unveiled as Scotland manager after signing two-year contract
• Setback for British Airways' Atlantic joint venture
• FTSE in-depth: Gem Diamonds regains sparkle
• Lloyds settles US Treasury charges
• It's a ho-ho-hold up: Armed bank robber dressed as Santa demands money so he can 'pay his elves'
• Newcastle's finance boss stands down
• Unnamed Premier League manager 'visited brothel', according to reports
• Kraft will face competition for Cadbury, says Stitzer
• Russian hackers 'steal tens of millions from Citigroup '
• Recession claims 27,000 businesses
• FTSE 100 preview: Shares to rise ahead of QE news
• Passenger jet breaks into three pieces after overshooting runway during bad weather
• BoE could deliver new £25bn injection
• Workers hit by biggest fall in pay for 50 years
• Father awarded £8k after turning detective to convict son-in-law of daughter's murder
• Bin Laden's family who went missing after 9/11 found living in secret compound in Iran
• Sophie Anderton arrested in drunken row after going to WRONG station
• Victoria Wood 'furious with BBC over Christmas Day snub'
• Susan Sarandon goes to the dogs for Letterman interview
• Two killed and 47 injured after Women's Institute coach overturns on ungritted road
• Woman who threatened to 'blow away' Michelle Obama is held
• 'Balloon boy hoax' parents JAILED over flying saucer stunt
• Okely dokely do! The Simpsons mirrors modern man's need for faith, says Vatican
• Parents of Army cadet who drowned while training launch £500,000 legal fight against MoD
• Snow way I'm cancelling! Sir Paul McCartney braves freezing temperatures to put on psychedelic O2 show
• NHS to suffer as 85-year-olds increase by a third within a decade
• Families hit by the worst wages crash in 50 years
• Greece's rating cut for third time
• Cheap flights: Aer Lingus January sale