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18 July 2008

• Salma Hayek's engagement to billionaire called off just months after birth of first child
• Darwin wrote to wife daily in jail
• Hamilton sets Hockenheim pace
• Mortgage lending at two-year low
• Man quizzed over abduction bid
• Police injured in litter mob attack
• FA charge for Evra
• Bounty for private firms to find benefit claimants a job
• Second weekend rail strike planned
• Keothavong blows her big chance as Bartoli comes back from the brink
• Real mum: Ulrika struggles to lose weight after the birth of her fourth child
• We've had 658 laptops stolen, MoD confesses
• EU slams Iran after TEN public executions in ONE week
• Son of a convicted killer rejected for police role despite barely knowing his father
• Inter Milan president wants a decision from Lampard over future plans
• United's Evra and Chelsea groundsman charged with improper conduct
• Cavendish outpaces old guard for unprecedented fourth Tour victory
• Moratti wants Lampard decision
• Pope urges all faiths to unite against 'indiscriminate violence' in the name of religion
• Deco hopes Lampard stays at Chelsea for Champions League push
• Children as young as 13 raided £100,000 from security vans while being directed by modern-day Fagins
• Ferguson confirms Berbatov bid
• Chris Evert shows off her HUGE wedding ring as she supports new husband Greg Norman on the fairway
• Gilberto motivated by silverware as Arsenal star moves to Panathinaikos
• Brown lands Giants role
• McDonald's apologises after group of mothers staged sit-in over breast-feeding ban
• EastEnders' Pam St Clement swaps her Pat Butcher earrings for a tam after she picks up honorary degree
• Newcastle's £7m signing Gutierrez to earn his stripes at Hartlepool
• Fergie insists: Ronaldo will be staying at United next season
• Devastated Britney gives up custody of her children to ex-husband Kevin Federline
• He's in the money: David Tennant poised for £1.5million payday to play the Doctor
• 'Wrong' woman given abortion after nurse mixed up patients
• Longer wait for school test results
• Tigers keen on King
• England facing uphill battle
• Sister to challenge barrister probe
• Hamilton sets the pace
• Mother lied to protect lover over her son's car-crush death
• Spurs' Kaboul wouldn't join Sunderland 'in an earthquake' says player's agent
• Great White Shark turns back the clock with Evert's help
• Canoeist wife: I was forced to lie
• Zaki set for Wigan move
• Hammers get touch over Green contract
• PM seeks way out of borrowing rules
• Baby No.2 on the way for Ben Affleck and Jennifer Garner
• THE INSIDER: Spurs will stump up extra cash for Bentley... Baggies to capture Carson... Warnock won't go to Toon for £2m. Plus Petric, Hulse and more
• Estate agent wins £30,000 compensation after boss ordered her to get smaller breasts
• 'New signing' Van Persie is just as good as Ronaldo, insists Gunners star Clichy
• Wenger wary of 'killing Arsenal's young Guns by bringing in a big name
• Black Cats bid for Spurs quartet
• Strictly good friends: Anton Du Beke reveals what REALLY went on with Kate Garraway
• Steve's oarsome challenge: Could Steve Redgrave transform a group of young hoodies into a Henley rowing team?
• Unions hand wish list to Government
• Godfather of SOLD! James Brown mementos make £420,000 at auction
• Wenger wary of splashing cash
• Brown, Sarkozy and the others? They're all just novices, declares gaffe-prone Berlusconi
• Hamilton sets the pace at Hockenheim as he targets outright lead in championship
• Cook hit by umpire blunder
• Grease is the word: Amy Winehouse goes for the Pink Lady look
• Met criticised over surveillance
• Citizenship class for young Muslims
• Blackburn reject Tottenham's £9m bid for Bentley as Rovers want £17m
• Norman rolls back the years
• Daisy Lowe proves a hit on the decks... just like DJ boyfriend Mark Ronson
• Nicole Kidman steps out with no sign of a baby bump just TEN days after giving birth
• Police tell man to get rid of knife he found just 50 yards from murder scene because they're too BUSY
• Van de Velde counts his blessings after another good round at Birkdale
• Following in Dad's footsteps: Sting's daughter Coco wows star-studded crowd at London gig
• Berbatov can be United's new Cantona, insists ex-Old Trafford legend Pallister
• BBC journalist arrested in Singapore on drug charges faces 20 years jail and 15 strokes of the cane
• Paul Young: I've lost everything - but I'm not bitter...
• Funeral for murdered Ben Kinsella
• Pattinson gets shock England call
• Last chance saloon for Stokes as Keane warns him: Stay in shape
• Boy, 13, among six arrested over murder of teenager shot dead at barbershop
• Keegan: I need to sign new players but they must be better than the ones I have
• Open may have to be suspended with storms threatening to hit over weekend
• Drogba demands showdown talks after Chelsea reject Barca swap with Eto'o
• Bellamy back to scoring form with West Ham manager Curbishley purring
• Boy, 12, pleads with mother to get off rail tracks seconds before she is killed by train
• Teenage British student attacked by lion - but she survives by staying silent
• Boro boss tells Ramos and Benitez: We won't listen to Downing offers
• Judge due to decide on Chambers ban
• EXCLUSIVE: Ronaldo takes brunette actress back to his Hollywood hotel room at 2am
• Widow died after ploughing her car into a river while practicing her driving ahead of a lesson
• Green: West Ham don't care about me
• Hanley calls it a day
• EastEnders stars join 1,000 mourners at funeral of murdered teenager Ben Kinsella
• Mischa Barton strips off for her raunchiest photoshoot ever
• Dead dolphin found in a garden that lies half a mile from the sea
• Hughes hails City quality
• Police officer bitten in vicious mob attack... after asking girl to pick up a piece of litter
• Bronzed ambition: Kelly Osbourne goes orange for a trip to the Big Apple
• Chambers decision on Friday
• EPL to attract foreign stars
• Inter hoping to sway Chelsea with new £11m bid for Lampard
• Furious Green sparks transfer frenzy by feeling 'undervalued' at West Ham
• LIVE TEST CRICKET: England bowled out for a measly 203 and South Africa reach stumps on 101 for three
• Calmer start at Royal Birkdale
• Lindsay can't stop cuddling lover Sam as they go on ANOTHER public date
• School finds the key to well-behaved pupils...bribe them with chocolate
• New look Revenue/Customs saves cash
• Athletes delighted as drug cheat Chambers' Olympic dream is over
• Liverpool put midfielder Voronin up for sale in bid to seal Barry's bitter switch
• Wenger could look to Barry
• Citizenship lessons for young Muslims to help beat extremism
• Desperate Housewives Eva and Nicollette Sheridan show off their matching knobbly knees
• Innocent driver killed after stolen car being chased by police flips into path of oncoming car
• Shot barrister's family take court action over 'flawed' Chelsea siege inquiry
• Flintoff: I don't want captaincy
• Barca target £24m Spurs striker Dimi after being priced out of Adebayor
• Eriksson lookalike fools Mexican football chiefs into thinking he's the real Sven
• £30bn rail link to put Sheffield within three hours of Paris
• Lyle quits after 'meltdown'
• Plan for mixed-sex jails considered
• 'I don't look like that' insists Rachel Hunter as she dismisses 'bloated' circus picture
• Supernanny row at school that shut boy in 'cupboard'
• Nelson Mandela interrupts 90th birthday celebrations to make plea for poor
• I've made Spurs an offer for Berbatov and I will sign him, insists United boss Ferguson
• Mamma Mia! Stunning Meryl Streep, 59, shows off her plunging neckline at premiere
• Super skinny Cheryl looks thinner than ever at Girls Aloud racecourse gig
• Gilberto leaves Arsenal
• Pictures that show Ronnie's 'new love' is a dead ringer for wife Jo
• British police failed to stop DNA evidence in McCann case from being made public
• Incest slave Elisabeth Fritzl accuses her father of murdering baby who died in cellar
• Union leaders hand Labour a checklist of 130 demands as Brown's position weakens
• Gas price 'may see increase of 70%'
• The Open 2008 - Round Two as it happened from windswept Birkdale
• Cahill to miss season start
• What the back pages of the papers say - July 18
• Barca to rob Chelsea?
• Facebook taunts lead hoodie gang to stab teenager yards from home
• City secure comfortable win
• Flintoff will play - Vaughan
• I got lucky, says McDowell
• Ferguson confirms bid for new player
• More online child protection urged
• Hard-up drivers running out of fuel
• MAIL COMMENT: Why testing is more important than ever
• Cost of card fraud soars to £535m as Chip and Pin drives criminals to plot new schemes
• Army chief hails troop welfare plan
• Government 'failing on knife crime'
• Canoeist's wife no longer loves him
• Terror focus 'undermining MI5 work'
• Government urged to drop US firm
• Asian policeman suing Scotland Yard
• Warning over 'summer of discontent'
• Hazel Blears calls for green belt rules to be scrapped to pave the way for more housing
• Borrowing to surge as Brown moves the economic goalposts
• The N-word and why black power could keep Obama out of the White House
• One in four schools still waiting for test results as heads call for abolition of SATs and league tables
• Number of strike days have trebled since Brown took over
• Coe vows to beat 'seedy chemists'
• Canoe wife says she wished he HAD died when he faked his death
• TONY HAZELL: Why we should not pay out for Equitable Life
• Stress of deportation battle 'killed' exemplary Gurkha soldier, 55
• Batman and the immorality of using a dead man to hype a movie
• Revealed: Middle Britain will be hardest hit by falling house prices
• Parents 'may sue over drug death'
• Terror suspect 'caught making bomb'
• Cuban lover of Briton at centre of Shakespeare Folio probe tells of her shock at his arrest
• Keane's £23m move for Spurs quartet
• How China's taking over Africa, and why the West should be VERY worried
• A knife attack every 4 minutes; 130,000 per year - but ministers still insist crime rates are falling
• The £24 suit from M&S: New round of price cuts hits High Street
• Gas boss: It's time to wear two jumpers
• You've messed up our Sats, minister
• Ticket inspectors stole cash fares in card scam
• Drivers avoid C-charge by parking outside zone
• Westminster to build 500 affordable homes
• First view: a new angle to the Tate Modern extension
• Comment: Makeover is simply better
• New high-speed rail 'would end need for Heathrow expansion'
• Mickelson's determined to hit back
• City's 21st stab victim killed near MP's home
• Freddie Mac plan to boost coffers with a £5bn shares sale
• £9.2bn borrowing surge as Brown loosens rules
• Unions demand right to secondary strikes
• Is Soros taking his biggest gamble ever?
• McCanns will be cleared and want all Maddy files
• Bank pair raise £8bn - but may need more
• The bendy bus that didn't
• City closes as 6,500 swap ties for trainers
• Family of barrister shot dead by police win court review
• Menezes probe: Met is top-heavy
• Buskers fear TfL will scrap Tube pitches
• Waitress says Wood calls her from rehab
• We're all going on a summer holiday ... near home to save cash
• 'Enough is enough', says sister of murdered teen
• Storming Norman rolls back the years
• Ferguson confident that Berba deal will go through
• Lyle's Open wound just can't be closed
• Comment: The Golden Rule is tarnished
• Comment: Homes for all
• No tall order for fighter Flintoff
• Cycling has opened my eyes to the city I live in
• The Emperor who holds up a mirror to our times
• What Joanna Murray-Smith has to say
• Kier cuts 375 jobs to add to the housebuilding misery
• Finnish firm sheds 160 UK workers
• Kate Moss ditches the scruffy look for Vogue
• Heroes star Hayden launches pop career
• Christian Bale takes on the Terminator
• Love conquers all for Norman
• BHP Mitsubishi in Oz coal buy
• Google's £6.4bn cash pile worry
• Wii wins in US for Nintendo
• Dresdner mulls London spin-off
• BP's £900m punt on difficult fields
• UBS caves in on Swiss accounts
• Danny Williams is fighting fit for big clash
• More mistakes will kill off world title hopes, warns Massa
• West Ham see red in Green's contract row
• Virgin being wooed to run 'supersurgery' in Camden
• Restaurant offers - celebrity chef special
• Ben Haim to end Blues misery
• Bellamy's double delight
• Councils sign up to Boris alcohol ban on under-21s
• Drugs cheat Dwain Chambers banned from Beijing Olympics
• Gilberto to cash in with more titles
• Lawyer in Ghaffur's Met battle is fighting his own £10m race case
• Purnell's purge on dole cheats
• This fraud story will be challenge for SFO chief
• America hopes it will be Super Hank to the rescue
• Duval still a believer as he rolls back the years
• Price-setting focus is shifting
• CDs of the week
• Slocum is reserving judgement
• Pop Babylon by Imogen Edwards-Jones & Anonymous
• Monty on drink-driving range
• The Lodger: Shakespeare on Silver Street by Charles Nicholl
• Anne Keothavong blows her bid for glory
• End Games by Michael Dibdin
• Rayner can turn things Sussex's way
• America America by Ethan Canin
• Netherland by Joseph O'Neill
• Red-faced tour chiefs desperate for a clean day
• Dr Gunther's zoo of death
• Drinking from the Claret Jug won't be so sweet this year
• Chambers is left with nowhere to run by judgement
• Comment: Chambers ruling is a victory for athletics
• Inflation set to climb well over 4%, Bank's No2 warns
• Pandit buys time as Citigroup's results better than feared
• Revel with a cause at Surya
• Russia extends TNK man's visa
• Best Buy aims to shine in UK
• Sales bounce for big-name stores
• JPM's bid to let surplus offices
• Robin's like Ronaldo, says Gael
• Canoe wife 'wanted to keep family together' with lies
• Singer wins 'bigot' libel claim
• Revealed: Labour's most radical benefits shake-up
• Brown links 'compromised think-tank's neutrality'
• Van de Velde bid is in good shape
• Fancy dress for Ben's funeral
• Comment: The night my street was turned into a crime zone
• Flintoff fails as England suffer
• Police hurt by girls rioting over litter
• Deco's plea for Lamps to stay
• Spurs will up Bentley bid after £11m fails
• Practice is perfect for Lewis as he reigns in the wet and dry
• Sir Alex: Ronaldo will stay at United
• Win tickets to Ben & Jerry's Sundae on the common
• The Emperor who holds up a mirror to our times
• Hallelujah, Leonard Cohen
• Fashion in the mirror shatters the image
• Steamy sex in Street Scene
• Serenades at the Serpentine
• Damon Brown makes music last
• Cézanne takes you down...