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Saturday, 12 December 2009
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News
News RSS Feed - click to grab the feedUK
- Secret data laptop stolen for MoD headquarters
- The Bamfords' charmed lives – until now
- Daylesford Organic fined over worker crushed under tractor
- 'I'm on Interpol's most wanted list, but the police won't arrest me'
- Police to review royals borrowing from guards
- Deportation looms for athlete who won gold for UK
- Government treats believers as 'oddities', says Archbishop
- Blair: Iraq war was right even without WMD
- Treasury fears tax rise could end up making deficit worse
- Speaker says new system will end expenses row
- Village people: 12/12/2009
- Police get more time to question man over toddler's death
- Addict says sorry for car-jack attack
- Drivers using mobiles ‘should be fined £1,000’
- Motive a mystery in murder of Asian radio presenter
- Minor British Institutions: Little Ben
World
- Swiss Muslims protest minaret ban
- Hallyday surgeon 'to blame' for back harm
- Pope 'feels shame' over Irish child abuse report
- Choirboy attacks lotto 'Scrooges'
- Body of former Cyprus president stolen
- Brutality, lies, and the tragedy of 'la petite Typhaine'
- Brown and Sarkozy's charm offensive secures £7bn for African climate fund
- Tiger Woods quits golf 'indefinitely'
- Mexico's most unlikely mayor turfed out by political elite
- Blackwater 'used in raids against insurgents'
- Iranian hardliners lash out at opposition after protests
- Iran needs up to 15 nuclear plants, says foreign minister
- Libya still jailing dissenters, says Human Rights Watch
- Gaza one year on: The aftermath of a tragedy
- Rush for Iraq's oil in defiance of bombers
- Pakistan PM says South Waziristan offensive is over
- China indicts prominent dissident
- Chinese football cleans up its act
- Miliband snubbed by US over prisoner's release
Business
- Citigroup sued by Terra Firma over EMI deal
- Stan Chart adds heavy hitting non-execs
- Ukraine seeks urgent $2bn loan from IMF
- National Savings pulls bond deals after unprecedented demand
- Business Diary: 12/12/2009
- Whitbread poised to buy Coffeeheaven
- HMV cuts losses as rivals fall victim to slump
- Gartmore price cut by a third as appetite for flotations recedes
- Apple hits back in Nokia patent war
- Moody's lifts UK's credit rating gloom – for now
- Britain and France want bank tax to fund climate change plan
- Stephen Foley: Time to put the brakes on Citigroup
- Greek lessons for UK debt
- Market Report: Miners boosted as China bounces back
People
- My Secret Life: Taio Cruz, singer-songwriter, 26
- My Week: Simon Fowler
- James Cameron: Another planet
- Patrick Stewart: 'People would never believe my father could be responsible for these things'
- One man on a bike: a gruelling 19,000-mile bicycle ride from the bottom of Argentina to the top of Alaska
Education
Obituaries
- Ikuo Hirayama
- Colonel Jack Pitchford
- Neil Dougall: Versatile and creative Scottish international footballer
- Prince Alexandre of Belgium
- Gene Barry: The suave Chief of Detectives in the 1960s series 'Burke's Law'
Corrections
Appeals
Opinion
Opinion RSS Feed - click to grab the feedLeading Articles
- Leading article: Wise monkeys
- Leading article: Be generous, be happy
- Leading article: Climate change demands better political leadership
Commentators
- Liz Hoggard: Who are we to poke our noses into other people's marriages?
- The truth is out there: 12/12/2009
- Geoffrey Wheatcroft: Plank by plank, Blair's case collapses
- Robert Fisk’s World: You can glimpse the divine in a carpet as in a cave
- Andrew Grice: Bad case of jitters on Tory bandwagon provides a test of nerve for Cameron
- Howard Jacobson: I don't believe in the joy of giving. What's wrong with a tangerine and a Toblerone?
- Christina Patterson: There's nothing like the kindness of strangers
Columnists
- Richard Ingrams’s Week: Ian Fleming's creations are preferable to reality
- Dylan Jones: A landmark deal between Google and authors' associations in America will let readers search millions of books
- David Lister: Too many popstars, not enough singers
Letters
Environment
Environment RSS Feed - click to grab the feedClimate Change
- Rich nations slam climate draft, thousands protest
- Copenhagen comes down to a numbers game
- Mark Lynas’s Copenhagen Notebook: 12/12/2009
- Anti-corporate demonstrators arrested
Nature
Sport
Sport RSS Feed - click to grab the feedCricket
Football
- Premier League roundup: Chelsea and Man City drop more points
- Figueroa's wonder-stike not enough to earn Wigan full points
- City pair face early exit to African Cup
- Valencia: 'It's about more than scoring goals'
- Scholes and Giggs to get new United deals
- Young promises Villa adventure
- Everton fear top scorer Saha will be on the move
- Ancelotti gives team ultimatum
- Benitez rattled by Klinsmann's criticism
- Wenger enraged by Catalonia's request to call up Fabregas
- Ashton urged not to sue as career ends
- James Lawton: How to stop Pompey, or any other clubs, going the same way as Leeds
- Chris McGrath: When goalkeepers turn goal-scorers
- Shankly: flawed, feared but forever revered
- Awkward choices for player of the year
- Neil Warnock: It's my players' Christmas party tonight – I hope they don't get as sloshed as I did
- Football in brief: Modric poised to hand Spurs a boost with return from leg injury
- Villa aiming to show Real exactly what they missed
- Manchester United: potential transfer targets
Golf
Racing
Rugby
- Kingsley Jones: 'In my day we'd all just play injured'
- Brian Ashton: Baa-Baas showed what imagination can deliver
- Perpignan fall to boot of O'Gara
- Parks finds his range to down Gloucester
- Brive set for win-or-bust game
More Sports
- Sport in brief: New Neath-based club take on the mantle discarded by Crusaders
- McCoy takes pride of place on alternative SPOTY shortlist
- Boxing: Klitschko has sights set on Haye
Life & Style
Life & Style RSS Feed - click to grab the feedFashion
- Getting to the bottom of an enduring appeal
- Dressing table: Make-up to make you sparkle
- Duffel standards: There's only one coat to be seen in this winter
- Carola Long: Stick to short, tailored or clingy shapes and avoid anything reminiscent of Interview with the Vampire
Food & Drink
- Galvin La Chapelle, 35 Spital Square, London E1
- Stuff the turkey: Part two of Mark Hix's delicious alternative Christmas feast
- Anthony Rose: 'Most of the Aussie wine on UK retailers' shelves is at the cheaper, duller, branded end of the spectrum
- Wine: Something for the weekend?
- Cranberry and pecan cheesecake
- Stuffed onions
- Roast suckling pig
- Marinated scallop and duck liver salad
Health & Families
- Teenagers to get pill without prescription
- Coroner brands maternity shortages as 'scandalous'
- Parents fail to secure unlawful killing verdict
- US study exposes big drinking of older alcoholics
- Coin tosses can be easily rigged: study
- India's food inflation soars 19 percent
- Chromosome changes can cause cancer: US study
House & Home
- "Silver surfing" on the rise, says new report
- US residents gorging on data bytes: study
- Speaking volumes: For green-fingered christmas presents, look no further than these recent books
- Weekend Work: Time to tend to your Christmas rose
Gadgets & Tech
Christmas 09
Arts & Entertainment
Arts & Entertainment RSS Feed - click to grab the feedMusic
Classical
Films
TV & Radio
Theatre & Dance
Books
- Walcott finally wins his poetry professorship
- Solzhenitsyn's widow cuts 'Archipelago' to student size
- Authors' word choices create unique 'fingerprints'
Travel
Travel RSS Feed - click to grab the feedNews & Advice
- Travel by numbers: Winter skating
- Something to declare: Egyptian temperature alert; East Coast bargains; on track in Peru
- My Life In Travel: Bernard Cribbins
- Travel Challenge: February half term in Florida
- Simon Calder: What awaits Walt in Wilts? Twin-town tales
- Travel Agenda: La Plagne's igloo village; Europe's railways; solar eclipse
48 Hours In
Africa
- Kicking off the celebrations: South Africa's Sun City turns 30
- On the road: Butchery and beauty in a Moroccan medina
Americas
Australasia & Pacific
UK
Skiing
Money
Money RSS Feed - click to grab the feedSpend & Save
- Wealth Check: 'Can I rely on property as my nest egg?'
- Questions Of Cash: 'Dormant account ran up £400 charges'
- Derek Pain: Portfolio mourns for Pubs'n'Bars' last orders
- Why your job is at risk more than ever before
- Money Insider: Savings best buys – blink and you'll miss them
- Mark Dampier: Chinese market has all the right goods
- Consuming Issues: Beware - loyalty doesn't pay
- Alice-Azania Jarvis: 'Stuck with a couple of incompetent locksmiths – I sure do pick 'em'
Loans & Credit
Mortgages
Pensions
Tax
Extras
Extras RSS Feed - click to grab the feedPuzzles & Games
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1 The 50 best Christmas gifts for women
2 The 50 best Christmas gifts for men
3 Appeal over danger men wanted abroad
4 The funniest football chants
5 The Sin City VIP service that seduced Tiger Woods
6 BANNED: The most controversial films
7 Present perfect: Christmas gifts for fashion followers
9 The 50 Best Christmas Gifts for Men
10 There Will Be Blood named film of the decade
11 Sunspots do not cause climate change, say scientists
12 Manchester United: potential transfer targets
13 Private Viewing: Pick of the property market
Emailed
1 If you look young, you'll live longer
2 Sunspots do not cause climate change, say scientists
3 59p stethoscope on iPhone proves a hit
5 James Lawton: Benitez walks alone and directionless in the sad shadow of Shankly
6 6m votes took X Factor Joe to victory
7 Appeal over danger men wanted abroad
8 Virginia Ironside’s Dilemmas: My daughter is unhappy I'm giving money to charity this Christmas
9 Cadbury talks to Hershey over alternative to Kraft £10bn bid
10 Sarah Churchwell: Tiger Woods and the first law of sexual economics
12 Bruce Anderson: From Blair to Darling, Labour only ever acts out of self-interest
Commented
1Sunspots do not cause climate change, say scientists
2Why it's getting easier to carry a gun in the US
3Yasmin Alibhai-Brown: Christians shouldn't be blaming others
4Blix talks of Blair's 'impression of lack of sincerity'
5Sun sets on sceptics' case against climate change
6Bruce Anderson: From Blair to Darling, Labour only ever acts out of self-interest
7There Will Be Blood named film of the decade
8Tories to compel peers and MPs to pay UK tax
9James Lawton: Benitez walks alone and directionless in the sad shadow of Shankly
Columnist Comments
• Bruce Anderson: Labour only ever acts out of self-interest
If Brown could scrape home, he wouldn't care what state the country was in
• Yasmin Alibhai-Brown: Christians and PC
It's not PC enforcers who are guilty of neglecting the spirit of Christmas
• Simon Carr: Put carers in high-visibility jackets
Joggers should wear lights front and rear. But not number plates