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24 July 2008

• The French Fuhrer: Genocidal Napoleon was as barbaric as Hitler, historian claims
• PETRONELLA WYATT: Crime-ridden. Crushingly dull. Intellectually backward. Is there ANYTHING good about the countryside?
• Cost of living outstripping pay packets by biggest margin for 20 years
• Murray through in Toronto but his pal Wawrinka puts up a fight
• Shaun Wright-Phillips set to revive his career at Portsmouth
• Why millions of people may be just 11 days from financial ruin
• Toby had a HUGH and cry over which actor would play him, but luckily one guy had him PEGGed
• Mass boycott looms as ICC reject plea to move Trophy
• Jamaican sprint stars race in for party at the Palace
• Meet Midget Jones! Georgia's being hailed by Hollywood as the next Keira Knightley
• John Cleese's Basil Fawlty-style rant at his ex wife and mother - 'I thought I'd never get rid of her'
• Community post offices 'are doomed by a lack of funding'
• Sam Sparro: A feather in his cap for the chirpy Sparro...
• Strong turnout set for by-election
• Sprint star Monty out to pass 11-plus at the festival of athletics
• Forget the Far East: why not try moving to the North East, a traditional hotbed?
• United's Indian summer: China is conquered, they're big in Japan, now it's time for the jewel in the crown
• Murray progresses in Toronto
• Ferguson to play key role in hunt for his Manchester United successor
• Bachelor boys of Leeds have Saints and Wembley in their sights
• Keane snaps up Colgan
• Sporting birthdays - July 25
• The maddest Hatter - it’s minus 30 at Luton as Harford warms upfor the scariest job in football
• Serbia keeper Stojkovic insists he enjoyed his Everton trial
• Trekkies and Dr Who geeks banned from RSC's new production of Hamlet
• Ex-NATO chief slams Russia in BP row
• Jailed: Supermarket supervisor faked till refunds to steal £500,000 over five years
• Here comes the bargain bride: In a £2.50 bespoke wedding dress bought on eBay
• Thousands of asylum seekers could be allowed to STAY in Britain in an 'effective amnesty'
• Brown confronted over NHS delays... by an 8-year-old visitor to Downing St
• Spurs defender Kaboul set to follow Tainio to Sunderland after agreeing personal terms
• Schleck trek wrecked, then decked by check at Le Tour
• British toddler fighting for his life after falling from Spanish hotel balcony
• Only a THIRD of foreign criminals in Home Office scandal have been kicked out of Britain
• Police discuss Menezes death report
• Backstrom flying high after an albatross in first round of Russian Open
• Libya halts oil shipments to Switzerland after Gaddafi's son is arrested in Geneva hotel for 'beating up domestic staff'
• It doesn't cut THAT kind of grass, Lily...
• Fayed strikes oil millions from 'secret' oilfield under his estate
• 'Violent movies are to blame for knife crime wave,' blasts Sir Richard Attenborough
• Former England coach Ashton rejects national academy post
• Judge pulls out KNIFE in court during teenage stabbing trial
• Mosley wins £60,000 in privacy case
• Voters go to polls in by-election
• Tevez: Give Ronaldo Real deal
• People SHOULD confront youths who misbehave despite fear of knife crime, says police chief
• Mother accused of killing her new-born baby faints in the dock
• Miller: There are no problems
• Briton charged with strangling her newborn son in Crete hotel faces year in jail before trial
• Binmen refuse to remove pensioner's tree branch... because it was 5mm too thick
• Hollywood sweetheart Meg Ryan gains ten stone... after donning a fat suit
• Keane swoops for Colgan to keep the numbers up at Sunderland
• Cameron welcomes UUP merger talks
• Bush on America's financial crisis: 'Wall Street got drunk, now it's a question of waiting for it to sober up'
• Soldier killed driving ambulance
• Down in the mumps Owen hoping to be fit for Newcastle curtain-raiser
• Supermodel Petra Nemcova enjoys passionate kisses with mystery man
• Bills set to soar for 8 million Southern Electric customers
• Overseas drivers face law clampdown
• THE INSIDER: Only one destination for Spurs star Berba... Muntari move casts Lamps shadow... Everton can't buy V Love... Newcastle and Sunderland still chase committed McGeady... Plus Harper and Pennant
• Scan to decide Bosingwa fate
• Why Cruella de Vil's cigarette could put an 18 certificate on 101 Dalmatians
• 'Politics' will upset Arsene's plans for Arsenal, warns Hleb
• Penpals meet 40 years after their friendship began via message in a bottle
• Wolves priced out of Balde move
• Wanted: Nosey parkers to monitor police CCTV cameras
• Karadzic's female companion insists: 'I didn't know he was the Beast of Bosnia - and we were NOT lovers'
• Pete Doherty fined £900 after pleading guilty to smashing photographer's camera
• Governments propose Ireland border checks for the first time in 80 years
• Wife Swap contestant died of drink and drugs binge after partner ran off with lesbian lover
• Hodgson desperate to sign Johnson from Everton before rivals pounce
• Johnson interests Rangers
• Obama-mania spreads to France and Britain the day after 250,000 Berliners turn out to hear the 'black JFK' speak
• The 12-minute TV ad: Commercials get longer as watchdog relaxes rules
• Stevie G's cousin backs new Barry partnership at Anfield
• Painter given £30 fine for smoking 'at work'...in his own van
• Real Madrid president Calderon insists they don't need Ronaldo for success
• Schoolgirl, 6, horrifically burnt at family barbecue loses fight for life
• Biker chic: Posh proves a fashion inspiration for Paris Hilton
• First pictures of the 'sex abuse bunkers' at the centre of Jersey children's home investigation
• Southampton struggling off the field, as club expect £5m pre-tax loss
• Now Natasha Kaplinsky takes her baby bump to Downing Street
• Labour plan will ban MPs from taking on lucrative second jobs
• City boss Hughes keen to keep Everton and Spurs target Johnson at club
• '180% rise' in destitute refugees
• Meet the pet rabbit that didn't flopsy about when it came to saving its owners when their house burned down
• End of an era: Relief for Sarkozy as French parliament scraps the 35-hour working week
• Blowin' in the wind: Gwyneth Paltrow's flyaway new hairdo
• Bosingwa worry for Blues
• Bolton boss Megson tells Hull gaffer Brown to make 'serious bid' for Meite
• It's a clash of Eastenders as Becks relishes reunion against West Ham
• Grandmother arrested on race charges after telling rowdy Asian students to 'go home'
• Liverpool complete signing of French Under 19 striker Ngog from Paris St Germain
• Man City's Bojinov faces further stint on sidelines, adding to striker crisis
• O'Neill set to play Barry in Villa's Intertoto clash with Odense
• What would Dumbledore say? Harry Potter's Ron Weasley gets bloody and battered in new adult role
• Bubble's burst for New York show after thieves swipe more than 3 tons of soapy solution
• Madeleine detective's book launched
• The town that cut antisocial behaviour the old-fashioned way... by giving kids a curfew
• Murray triumphs over Johansson to progress into third round in Toronto
• Recovered: The complete skeleton of a young dinosaur (that's 70 million years old)
• Eva Mendes bounces back from rehab with seductive Calvin Klein lingerie campaign
• Microsoft billionaire Bill Gates joins £190 million bid to stub out smoking in the developing world
• Roman villa's remains to see light of day 60 years after being discovered
• Rich boy's toy: The 325ft luxury yacht big enough for a tennis court AND a garden
• England physio Lewin backs Capello to have Wenger effect
• Agent admits Sporting's Arsenal target Miguel is open to offers
• Shilton: Robinson has England future
• 'Embarrassed' girl, 9, gets court protection in New Zealand to change her name from 'Talula Does The Hula From Hawaii'
• Sarah Jessica Parker's marriage rocked by claims her husband Matthew Broderick had an affair
• Hammers refuse Baggies permission to secure Welsh defender Collins on loan
• Move to Hull is on the landscape for Gardner after Spurs agree £2.5m deal
• Archbishop in call on aid promises
• Darwins' fraud cash being recovered
• Businessman awarded £22,000 in landmark libel ruling over malicious fake Facebook profile
• Browned off: Sun worshipper Ronaldo turns a distinct shade of mahogany
• F1 boss Max Mosley awarded record damages in 'Nazi orgy' privacy case
• TENNIS: Federer set to lose four-year grip on No 1 ranking after shock defeat
• Man-eating bears kill two scientists and lay siege to survivors trapped in remote forest base
• Families in 'eco-towns' must have one person who does not drive to work, say ministers
• Motorist 'demonised' by ministers in drive to cut pollution, says top government advisor
• Romanian Patulea's bare-faced cheek earns him shot at big time with Lincoln
• Scolari hails Chelsea's young general Franco and says he'll play a big role
• Raikkonen to see out Ferrari deal
• Ex-Palace chairman Goldberg backs Jordan's 'sensible' decision to sell
• New Blackburn manager Ince to make move for Liverpool midfielder Pennant
• Party animals Chantelle and Chanelle paint the town black and white
• The hi-tech machine that reveals nine out of ten women could be damaging their breasts by wearing the wrong bra
• Chelsea star Bosingwa's troublesome thigh could end China tour
• Two children die of heatstroke 'after fathers leave them locked in boiling cars'
• Cameron left stranded as his bike is STOLEN as he shopped for salad
• Ex-Arsenal physio Lewin: Bergkamp is the best pro I've worked with
• What a top cancer researcher told his staff: Limit your mobile phone use to avoid tumours
• Heartbroken Dale pines for his evicted sweetheart Jen
• Police killer is freed early from prison - but then jailed for 30 years for bungling bid to smuggle £350m of cocaine
• One million listeners desert radio shows of Wogan and Moyles but radio bosses insist: 'We're not concerned'
• What price morality? Judge champions Max Mosley's right to hold S&M orgies
• Gay pulls out of London clash
• Retail figures in biggest fall since 1986 as credit crunch hits the high street
• UK 'blocking' EU green energy plans
• Former Coronation Street gymslip mum Tina O'Brien parades her growing baby bump
• Ramos hopes £4m Robinson sale to Blackburn will fast-track Spurs' bid for midfielder Bentley
• Caught on camera: The moment a gang of teenagers nicked David Cameron's beloved bike
• Friedel nears Ewood exit
• Black Cats to continue Spurs raid
• Peaches heads home for an early night, three days after alleged overdose
• Labour fears for Glasgow East as by-election rests on knife-edge
• GB UNITED: Who should United boss Fergie pick in the XI? Have your say...
• Obama heckled as he makes a surprise visit to Jerusalem's Western Wall
• Christian Bale 'flew off the handle after family begged for £100k'
• The truth is in there: Pregnant Gillian Anderson shows off her bump at X-Files premiere
• Girl, 8, kicked out of tennis tournament after father gave her secret instructions through a hidden ear-piece
• Sastre seizes yellow jersey
• Well hello Dolly! Giant hurricane batters Texas and Mexico, dumping up to 20 inches of rain in just 12 hours
• Say it with fashion: Lindsay Lohan pays tribute to her lesbian lover on her T-shirt
• Cameron to unite Tories with Ulster Unionists in historic deal
• Tottenham prepared to lose £5million in Berbatov sale by letting Bulgarian go to Barca or Milan rather than United
• Olympic chiefs tasked 'over costs'
• Burgess blow for England
• Black Cats pounce for Tainio
• Flintoff: Lay off Pattinson
• Hammers sign Swiss ace
• Rovers accept Friedel bid
• Police brand pay offer 'insulting'
• More people without bank accounts
• What the back pages of the papers say - July 24
• Soldier killed by roadside bomb
• Father charged over quad bike death
• Johnson future in doubt
• Boy, seven, 'was driving crash car'
• Couple jailed for canoe death fraud
• 'Extraordinary' hero's George Cross
• Brown: King deal near
• Owners of country retreats could be forced to let them out to tenants all year
• EU food safety experts say NO to cloned meat
• Parents call for scrapping of Sats
• It's GB United: Britain to field a football team at 2012 Olympics
• Parents will be warned if their children download illegal music - and could face speed sanctions
• Government report: 'Use steamy TV soap scenes to talk to your kids about sex'
• Passport strike hits holidaymakers
• The new age of the canal: More passengers now than during the 18th century heyday
• English plan for foreigners changed
• 'The most brazen, brilliant, liar I've met': Reporter's verdict on her exclusive interview with the notorious fraudster
• South's fortunes go north after landing lucky loser spot and winning
• Gordon Brown defies unions' 'squeeze the rich' call
• The secret pictures and emails that reveal canoe wife was lying all along
• M&S cuts its plastic bag handout by astonishing 80% after ban
• Dramatic aerial race over the Thames
• Life through Huggy's lens
• Ripley's world of the weird
• Authors slam education plans for under-fives
• TV chef joins fight to save farmers' market
• Putting Met chiefs on the beat 'is a waste'
• Shot swan becomes foster father to 50 orphaned cygnets
• Time is nearing to drive down to electric avenue
• Lightning sets pace for future green machines
• Evans still has it all to do, claims boss Sergeant
• Policy wonk now playing vital role as Tory moderniser
• Boris Johnson aide takes the blame for failure to vet Lewis
• Miller clears the air with Vaughan
• Travelling in Britain
• Million take flight for the big getaway
• Heathrow doesn't need third runway says top travel agent
• Roger Federer beaten again and faces losing his world No1 status
• Mayor puts a block on £1bn 'Ugly Sisters' skyscrapers
• Emin fights Foster tower in Shoreditch
• Facebook? Better to tweet your friends...
• BG Group faces fight for Aussie fuel giant
• Robinson sale boosts Spurs bid for Bentley
• Trader's collapse helps to force down crude oil price
• Finance site is equity target
• Hard times for easyJet as oil price hits profits
• David Beckham keen to nail the Hammers
• Comment: A view saved
• Kingfisher off colour as the slump goes on
• Comment: Heathrow doubt
• Fab's got Wenger touch, says Lewin
• Comment: Sporting legacy for 2012 Games
• JJB Sports sounds the alarm after sales slide
• Make mine a small one, bartender...
• Obesity is not a medical problem, say doctors
• New GPs face 'desperate' times as jobs dry up
• US lenders are sued for 'fraud'
• Profits nosedive at Credit Suisse
• Profits nosedive at Credit Suisse
• Checks on Crete death mother's two other sons
• Canoe wife forced to hand over cash
• Moment David Cameron became a victim of crime
• Goldman £5bn buyouts play
• Why fuel bills are going up - and it's not just oil that is to blame
• 'Politics' will upset Arsene's plans, warns Hleb
• False start for £100m push to win gold
• Comment: London's legacy stuck on starting blocks
• 2012 Games 'must encourage more people to take up sport'
• Pick up a copy of today's Evening Standard and receive a FREE 16 page Motor Show supplement
• Let Ronaldo join Madrid, urges Tevez
• My property predictions by Foxtons £370m guru
• Goldberg: Jordan is right to sell
• Clubs told to comply over Olympics
• Officers injured as they smother human fireball
• Scolari hails Chelsea's young general Franco
• Tap water or bottled? It all tastes the same to us
• 'Film police marksmen to stop them colluding'
• Big ideas are fine but the small things matter too
• £30 annual 'tax' for unlimited downloads to stop Net pirates
• Magic for Fox as he leads radio breakfast battle
• Injured Bosingwa faces early exit from China trip
• Max Mosley victory: the death of kiss-and-tell
• Prodrive steers into profits rally
• West Brom fail in move for Collins
• Irish face a tough Euro test in Kiev
• Economic slump aids online trade
• Porsche cleared to swallow VW
• Scotland Yard prevents 13 terror plots in one year
• Why Bergkamp gets Gary's vote ...
• Call to ban MPs from lucrative second jobs
• Labour fears Glasgow election on knife-edge
• Frustrated Priaulx sees Seat conspiracy
• Stanford's £400,000 cup bonus
• It's a crying shame about Yell
• Farewell Prudence, he never even loved you
• Batman star Bale 'pushed sister after cash plea'
• Will Smith tops Hollywood earners list
• Should 'Lightning' be allowed to strike twice?
• Liverpool in swoop for £1.5m Ngog
• Hodgson in race to seal deal for AJ
• Max's credibility is still on the line
• TV cameraman told to pay £22,000 for Facebook lies
• Norman suffers Open misery
• Silent wife only learned of 'spankings' in newspaper
• Southern Electric warns bills will surge
• Free speech 'put into bondage'
• Comment: Judge seems to like press freedom less than people who buy newspapers
• Comment: Mosley's privacy
• Women who give 'little boys' a caning for cash
• Police swoop on 'woman ringleader of smash and grab raids'
• Weekend gig guide
• The Gaol: The Story of Newgate – London’s Most Notorious prison by Kelly Grovier
• Cazenove ex-trader on insider charges
• The Forsaken: From the Great Depression to the Gulags: Hope and Betrayal in Stalin's Russia by Tim Tzouliadis
• Knife-trial judge pulls out blade in court
• Marrying Anita: A Quest for Love in the New India by Anita Jain
• Dawnay, Day directors quit
• Fayed strikes gold from 'secret' oilfield under his estate
• Record 3.9% decline in high street spending fuels recession worries
• Dilshan the first winner in TV trial
• Cork hurts Hants with double blow
• Terror fears don't put ICC off Pakistan
• Ford rolls downhill to the tune of £4.3 billion
• French set to win British Energy with £13 billion bid
• Restaurant offers - 50% off
• Our doctors aren't there just to keep us happy
• Catchee Damon Albarn's Monkey
• This Joker's serious in The Dark Knight
• Growing up is so much harder to do
• Makhmalbaf's timely swipe at the Taliban
• Lovers, losers and a long time in Paris
• Good old days in Wink the Other Eye
• Epic celebration of anniversary with Belohlávek
• We're off to sing The Wizard
• Baby Mama misses its chance
• Quiet City and Dance Party are true to life
• Lou Reed's Berlin is determinedly downbeat
• Before the Rains is beautifully shot