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• How we can change the world, by the Archbishop of Canterbury
• Four more face execution in China for alleged heroin smuggling
• Holland and Barrett becomes first High Street name to ban plastic bags
• Foreign workers take 22,000 jobs amid recession
• More women than men in work 'within four years' as 'Full Monty' recession brings a jobs revolution
• One in three mandarins has a £1m pension... and retires years earlier than private sector staff
• Now UK to have body scanners at airports: It will mean longer queues for flights... but you will be safer
• The non-PC guide to policing: How to apprehend a criminal, 1907-style
• CBI warns of 'rocky new year'
• Cover your ears - it's Alvin and the squeakquel
• Photos of a happy family...but four years later, not one of them survives
• Aston Villa ready to offer Beattie his route out of Stoke in £2.5m deal
• Kenny Miller's K.O adds to Rangers anxiety ahead of Old Firm showdown
• Bolton turn to Palace boss Warnock in search to replace sacked Megson
• Wigan set to offload Kapo and Watson as Boulogne and Cardiff circle Latics
• No fear Bhoys: Mowbray insists Celtic will take fight to rampant rivals Gers
• Middlesbrough extend Bent's stay as Strachan sets sights on Celtic pair
• The 'spaghetti' artery that could transform heart bypass surgery
• RICHARD KAY: Tallulah lost in translation
• Hart stopper: Man City put the brakes on Birmingham bid for on loan keeper
• Newcastle turn to Helguson after Leeds rebuff £1.25m Beckford bid
• JAMIE REDKNAPP: I'm joining Jose in the hunt for one special kid
• Did they REALLY say that? Try our quiz to see if you can work out who made these hilarious howlers
• TOM UTLEY: I pray that being a mean dad will stop my beloved grown-up sons flying back to the family nest
• Sunderland set to take a chance on £4m Tottenham misfit Alan Hutton
• Liverpool boss Benitez wants loan deal for Atletico Madrid star Rodriguez
• How Elvis Presley ruled Las Vegas - before it slowly killed him
• STEPHEN WRIGHT: Could this finally be the year of justice for Stephen Lawrence?
• Top tipster: Racemail's Goodfellow beats rivals to Racing Post award
• Chelsea boss Ancelotti scoffs at Arsene Wenger's 'magical' powers
• Park ranger sacked over 'racist joke' wins £40k compensation after tribunal tells council 'skin colour is a fact of life'
• Jan Leeming: 'I know I'm not easy to live with, but why do I attract only unfaithful men?'
• Andy Murray is aiming to be Mr Incredible with intense training regime
• West Ham beg for FA Cup fans in email pleading for '12th man' against Arsenal
• Labour 'will drop pledge on banning battery hens'
• Did You Hear About The Morgans: The charm's rubbing off (and even Sarah Jessica Parker can't keep Hugh Grant interested)
• Delhi's Commonwealth Games plan in turmoil with venues behind schedule
• Post Grad: Don't give these jobseekers any allowance - they're too doleful
• BAZ BAMIGBOYE: Fresh bite of the Big Apple for Alan Bennett as his play heads for Broadway
• Victory will taste sweet as brave Van Barneveld fights for world darts title
• Charlie Dimmock puts her darling buds on display for debut in Calendar Girls
• Chelsea's cool Carlo Ancelotti is unflappable! Andy Gray delivers his verdict on the Premier League season so far...
• It's New Year's Day... and Easter eggs appear on the shelves at Tesco
• Watford boss Mackay: Give me Chelsea's problems any day, Carlo
• Spread: This stud's a dud. Ashton Kutcher's new film too bleak
• A noisy road to riches: The advantages to living on a busy route
• Chris Foy: Sack Redpath? Rugby must not follow football's example
• Who will be the winners and losers in the 2010 property lottery?
• Gary Lucy gets in some practice for Dancing On Ice as he gets his skates on for family day out
• Elaine Vassie relishes a man-size job at strugglers Manchester Rugby Club
• Cesc Fabregas MK II: Aaron Ramsey shows he can fill in for Arsenal captain
• Middle-class parents too busy to teach children how to talk, says 'communication champion'
• Charlotte Church calls coastguards after losing her boat in Bristol Channel
• Bright young things will keep United winning trophies, vows Fergie
• £710,000 Edgar Degas painting stolen while on loan to French museum
• Emma Lavelle's Crack Away Jack in injury blow
• This is Sir Bobby Robson's way of looking after me, says Paul Mariner
• Orange mobile phone network launches high-definition voice calls in the UK for 2010
• Tony McCoy rounds off champion decade with treble win at Warwick
• The Data Bank: All the best bets for New Year's Day
• Norwegian wooed: For healthy living and the true spirit of adventure, cross the sea to Norway
• British girl found safe after vanishing in California as her boyfriend is arrested for having dangerous weapon
• Collingwood facing fitness D-Day ahead of Cape Town showdown
• Jeff Powell: Save the FA Cup and give the winners Champions League chance
• Heidi Klum and family hit the slopes in Aspen (but baby Lou stays snug in 'snow cosy')
• The bust-ups that so nearly forced Graeme Swann to give up
• Feel good about felt: Make your home warm and cosy with the season's most fashionable fabric
• Stuart Broad: How I talked Kallis out... my secret weapon - Pollock's 'wobbler'
• 'Facial cancer' breakthrough may save Tasmanian devils from extinction
• World's worst-dressed WAG Yulia Voronin is back to her bad habits in garish pink beachwear
• Flip-flop maker wins David and Goliath legal case with Gucci to keep name
• Gary Megson is welcome back at Stoke, says Tony Pulis...and Peter Reid could replace him at Bolton
• Roy Hodgson hoping to seal loan deal for Roma striker Stefano Okaka
• Recipe: Spicy carrot and lentil soup
• Recipe: Winter vegetable and barley soup
• Tara Fitzgerald: Monogamy is alien to me
• Jamie Oliver and family go walking in a winter wonderland during festive break
• Recipe: Cauliflower cheese soup with ham and tomato twists
• Michael Ballack worried about pressure mounting on Chelsea youngsters
• Swearing vicar resigns over 'barrack-room language'
• Recipe: Ratatouille soup with pesto croutons
• Sheffield United boss Kevin Blackwell blasted by agent over Jamie Ward contract saga
• Tiger loses out on more sponsorship as AT&T pull the plug on ads
• Couple who divorced after 20 years remarry just six weeks later
• Soup recipes that will bowl you over
• Not-so-happy New Year for Tiger Woods as he's dumped by AT&T
• Ronaldo convinced Real Madrid will be the cream of the continent in 2010
• Street justice, Chinese-style as hero cyclist launches his bicycle at bag-snatchers
• School for slimmers: How a new TV show is giving obese kids fresh hope
• Close them down! French club call for Pompey to be shut over unpaid debts
• Girl whose mother refused to allow doctors to turn off her life support is home for New Year
• Andrew Marr: I'm a Desperate Housewives nut!
• Kate Moss makes it to Thailand for New Year... after almost missing trip
• Recipe: Bitter orange and cardamom martinis
• Millionaire broker wins £125,000-a-year maintenance appeal after private detective proves ex-wife was pregnant by another man
• Ramsey has teenage dreams of making 2010 his year in the Arsenal first team
• The Simpsons celebrates 20 years and is still going strong... The makers tell us how they do it
• Unsettled Pavlyuchenko asked not to play, says Spurs boss Redknapp
• Fulham defender Pantsil could miss rest of the season with knee injury
• Victorian book bound with tattooed skin of would-be assassin found at a car boot sale
• FTSE finishes with a bang - 22% up, its strongest annual rise since 1997
• Benitez faces nervy wait over Johnson as Liverpool star faces second scan
• Megson laments the fact he was not allowed to finish the job at Bolton
• James McAvoy: How I feel about being typecast
• Woman teacher jailed for 20 years for sleeping with boy pupil, 13
• Van Morrison blames hackers for news he has become a father saying the story is 'completely and utterly' unfounded
• Happy New Year! Benitez eyes spending spree to revive top four bid
• From Baby P to the Twin Towers, the 30 most memorable pictures of the decade
• Bruce warns his wounded Cats not to get caught napping by Barrow boys
• Jose insists he's happy at Inter (before saying how much easier it is in England)
• Villa won't come down with the Christmas decorations this year, vows striker John Carew
• Lost seal pup crawls 50 yards up busy high street
• They can rebuild you: Try the human MOT at the Porsche Centre
• 'Delighted' Camilla becomes grandmother again, this time to twin boys
• FTSE 100 rallies 22% in 2009
• Slumdog Millionaire star Rubina Ali sees her shanty town home demolished for the SECOND time in a year
• Allardyce bemoans shrinking English talent pool and warns of bleak future
• Should I tell my sister her new boyfriend is a womanising creep?
• 'Time and time again I defy what science says I can do,' says Britain's most successful road cyclist Mark Cavendish
• Fernando Torres will never sign for Real Madrid insists Bernabeu defender Alvaro Arbeloa
• Arlene Phillips: Poor Alesha... at least I knew what I was doing
• Assou-Ekotto joins Spurs pal Bassong in sitting out the Africa Cup of Nations
• Jack Straw provokes police fury by saying form-filling officers want to stay in 'warm stations'
• Banks win victory on enforcing debts
• More Pompey misery as Lens set to demand the return of on-loan Dindane
• A decade to remember: Sportsmail writers recall their top moments of the Noughties
• When Piers Morgan met Homer Simpson
• Thatcher and Heseltine's explosive Westland meeting minutes could be made public
• Katie Price throws a fancy dress New Year's Eve party... and plans to go as a pumpkin
• Luca Toni seals loan move from Bayern Munich to Roma to keep World Cup dream alive
• Chamakh tells Arsenal: Get in line with Spurs, Liverpool, Chelsea and the rest
• JOHN MACLEOD: Of bad suits, birthdays and bravado
• Iceland narrowly approves plan to repay £2.3bn lost by British savers in banking collapse
• Golfer paralysed in accident gets his swing back thanks to hi-tech caddy
• Fears for lost British hiker after his pining dog, phone and rucksack are found in Corsica mountains
• Highly-paid EU civil servants threaten strikes after pay rise is halved
• VIDEO: Evans and Ferdinand on the road to recovery for Manchester United
• Police launch murder hunt after woman's badly decomposed body is discovered in house
• Michael Winner spends the New Year outside Barbados for first time in 28 years
• Heads set to roll as Obama goes on attack over security failures that allowed Christmas Day bomber on to plane
• Thrifty Scot McLeish not about to blow all of Yeung's £40m Birmingham kitty
• Police force mergers 'likely', according to Justice Secretary
• Arsenal midfielder Diaby signs new long-term contract with high-flyers
• Gerrard, Torres and Mascherano catch the eye as Italians line up Liverpool raid
• THAT WAS THE SPORTING YEAR: Tiger Woods and his birdies, Rafa Benitez and his carthorses, Tottenham and their secret Santa - and much, more more
• Countdown's Rachel Riley is single after splitting with boyfriend of four years
• PD James handbags BBC chief on sky-high salaries
• Black Eyed Peas singer Fergie plays the evil queen on stage in Las Vegas
• Stealth VAT rises cancel out stores' promises
• Disgraced footballer (and millionaire) Joey Barton attacks flash lifestyles of 'overpaid' fellow players
• Superfine superfoods: The 20 most incredible edibles
• More than half of Britons vow to holiday abroad in 2010
• Confessions of a fashionista: My colleagues are so used to pain and discomfort, they actually keep their resolutions all year
• ROSHAN DOUG: Are we just celebrating binge drinking Britain?
• Coyle admits Bolton is a 'fantastic job' but insists he is committed to Burnley
• Pacquiao hits Floyd and De la Hoya with lawsuit over drug claims
• Sir Alex fears injured United defender O'Shea will be out for two more months
• Push off! Arctic photographer captures moment polars engage in bear-knuckle fighting
• More misery for commuters as rail fares increase by up to 15 per cent
• Ancelotti has cash to splash but the Blues boss will rely on fringe players
• £9,000 for woman paid less than husband
• Nationwide: House prices up 5.9% in 2009
• Woman dies after crashing into icy pond as New Year Freeze death toll hits seven
• Voice-to-text firm SpinVox bought by U.S. rival for $102m
• Why British industry is back in favour
• Methadone found in body of dead grammar schoolboy
• Wenger signs a striker! Arsenal seal deal for Brazil wonderkid Wellington
• Rooney ready to gun down Chelsea as United star sets sights on goal record
• Bayern deny claims Ribery will sign for Real with Chelsea and Man City in line
• Sleeping beauties: P-p-p-picture perfect penguin chicks take a break on the ice
• Christmas must go on! Wonder mother pops out to give birth and serves up turkey two hours later
• UK economy: Britain faces perilous times
• Raise your glass to half-price champagne
• Rising air traffic a sign of recovery
• I'm gay: BBC newsreader Jane Hill comes out
• Segro turns it back on retail property
• Bond yields
• Wilshere must leave on loan to become the complete player, says Wenger
• That won't help you stay pale! Tom Felton whips his top off in Miami
• Villa join Liverpool and Tottenham in race for £8m West Ham star Parker
• Is Alex Gerrard the face of the most ludicrous exercise gadget of all time?
• The millionairess with an Asbo
• FTSE close: Land Securities up; BT Group down
• Policeman kills himself two days after proposing to his girlfriend
• Becks will battle way to World Cup as star refuses to take England for granted
• Kosovan gunman kills ex-wife then four people at Finland mall where she worked before committing suicide
• Ministers 'put lives at risk' by delaying introduction of full body scanners at airports as bomber warns of more attacks
• Corporate debt shrank in 2009
• Diageo bosses £1.06m shares windfall
• Cash flow troubles at Accident Exchange
• Blow for Tottenham as flying Lennon is ruled out for a month with groin injury
• Happy 2010! New Year's celebrations kick off in Sydney
• Sacked Bolton manager Megson stands by his record at the Reebok Stadium
• NORTHERN EXPOSURE: Say what you want about Joey Barton, but he has the guts to pose some uncomfortable questions
• Petrofac lands Turkmenistan gas contract
• Profit takers bring Footsie rally to a halt
• Pensioner hit with £670 bill for spilling two litres of petrol at filling station
• Kirkland sickener as Wigan goalkeeper looks set to miss Hull FA Cup clash
• Alexandra Burke shows off her perfect pins in denim hotpants
• Great balls of fire! Embers 10,000 times hotter than our Sun left behind by supernova
• Brad Pitt has a little boys night out with sons Maddox and Pax
• VIDEO: Martinez slams lack of spirit after Wigan's mauling at Man United
• FTSE 100 preview: Footsie's 2009 rally
• House prices rose by 5.9% in 2009 as property market fights back from credit crunch gloom
• Evidence grows that British hostage Peter Moore WAS held by the Iranians
• Feeling a little GaGa, Perez? Celebrity blogger wears banana-print boxers for dinner with singer (while she goes for shredded leather jacket and bright yellow wig)
• Rail firms 'hiding' 15% fare increases
• Recession forces 500,000 back to parents
• What the back pages say: Ex-Pompey owner wants his £28m, Glen Johnson's World Cup fears, Peter Reid for Bolton
• Nine out of ten pints are sold short, trading standards officers discover
• Tories to hit drinkers with £500 fine if they end up in hospital on New Year's Eve
• Artist buys £3,000 home slipping into the sea ... to paint it being washed away
• Half of Army's heavily-armoured vehicle fleet 'not fit for purpose'
• Army cadets face uncertain future after 10% budget cut
• Suicide bomber infiltrates secret American base to kill eight CIA agents in massive blow to U.S intelligence
• Mulling over the drinks? My Wassail Cup is always a hot favourite
• The Noughties - so nutty you couldn't make them up! Test your knowledge of a decade with this hilarious quiz
• RICHARD KAY: Male fans of BBC newsreader Jane Hill, brace yourself for disappointment
• Dazzle your guests tonight with gourmet canapes - and with this supermarket selection you don't need to slave at a stove
• MICHAEL WINNER: I've partied with the stars but I must tell you, dears: I loathe New Year's Eve
• Farewell the unsung heroes: Robert Hardman pays tribute to some truly great Britons we lost in the Noughties
• Can't face a New Year diet? One mother set out to lose weight by hypnosis - the results were mesmerising
• 'Rip-off ' rail firms accused of hiding 15% fare increases
• Life's greatest little pleasure? A good night's sleep
• Ryvita, gym and no booze? Sorry, I just don't have the resolution
• It pays to go 'softly softly' say diplomats in hostage negotiations
• From marriage and motherhood to coping with an empty nest, four women reveal how the Noughties changed their lives
• Whitlock defeats Jenkins to reach last eight at World Darts Championships
• £9,000 for the woman paid less than her husband for the same job
• Rangers boss Smith set to launch appeal against Kenny Miller's red card
• Record number hooked on fishing as the recession bites
• DAILY MAIL COMMENT: Running scared?
• 'I thought they were going to shoot me': Iraqi kidnappers release British hostage after two-and-a-half years
• DAILY MAIL COMMENT: Flames of ideology