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07 August 2008

• 'I love Anna Friel... I just won't marry her': David Thewlis' surprise confession
• 'Pickpocket' foreign fuel giants 'ripping off' Britons to keep energy bills down in Europe
• Pietersen's dream start to the captaincy boosted by Harmison
• Villa swoop for Shorey
• EXCLUSIVE: Jennifer Aniston reveals her 'plump new pout' as her 40th birthday looms
• Sienna Miller tries to distance herself from married lover... by walking a few feet away from him
• The next big thing: The Script
• Sinfield looking for Leeds spark to ignite season against Bradford
• British scouts head to barbecue after hospital release following Canada bus crash drama
• What happened when I asked to do 'adult' TV... Konnie Huq on the perils of leaving Blue Peter
• Depor accept Newcastle's Coloccini bid
• Messi's on the mark
• House prices fall by 8.8%
• I want to die at home, Paul Newman tells his family as he's given 'weeks to live'
• Ronaldo almost says ‘Sorry’, but United fans’ reaction is crucial
• Barclays reveals profits slump
• £54,000 on taxis and film festival jaunts: What Labour job-making boards did with taxpayers £15 billion
• Businessman uses Aston Martin to decapitate himself in horrific suicide as revenge against his ex-wife
• Villa close in on defensive pair
• Beauty brand L'Oreal accused of 'whitewashing' Beyonce
• Morrison's a bargain for Coleman as Clinton signs up for Coventry
• Luftwaffe pilot flies in to say sorry to city he once bombed... and crashes in a field
• New bid to give children MMR jab
• Gavin Beijing dream is over
• BBC scraps outdoor broadcasts in Beijing 'because reporters are too sweaty'
• Chelsea tractors 'worthless' as price of second-hand cars plunges 12%
• Emigrating British family turned away from Canada because their daughter, 7, is disabled
• Emergency £1.8m fund launched to halt measles epidemic in UK
• Time short in Robson's cancer battle
• Plastic flowers banned from cemetery for posing a 'health and safety risk'
• Future of SATs in doubt after major exam boards rule out taking over marking
• Is today, 8/08/08, the luckiest day of the year?
• Ronaldo commits to another year at Utd
• Home office set to ban 'date-rape' chemicals
• 'Sinister' lesbian stalker broke into lawyer's home armed with rope and a knife
• Detectives probe 100 'Madeleine sightings' in Belgium after claims she was stolen to order
• Whale slams 'barbaric' drugs ruling
• Frustrating morning for England
• Massa insists mistakes must stop
• We're innocent, say BA chiefs charged with price-fixing
• Aussie monarchists in a froth over beer ad supporting 'publicans'
• Meet Aussie the goldfish who swims upside down
• The heart-breaking moment I realised my mother had cut me off forever, by violin virtuoso Vanessa-Mae
• Reading full-back Shorey gets his wish and joins Villa in £3m deal
• 'Make petty criminals apologise'
• Proteas name unchanged team
• Assessment call over turbine grants
• McCanns probe paedophile ring lead
• Teenager shot dead in shop
• United will not prevent Anderson from playing for Brazil in Beijing
• Interest rates set to stay at 5%
• United's Rooney virus a 'lie from the pit of hell' - organiser denies that striker incurred illness in Nigeria
• Reedie IOC election bid fails
• China defiant as athletes protest and Bush slams human rights on the eve of Olympics
• Caught on camera: The horrific moment a mother and baby were hit by a car... but survived
• Top ref Clattenburg suspended over reports of alleged debts
• The night Max got the munchies: Boy aged three goes on a 3am trek in his pyjamas to buy some sweets
• Madge and Guy's pub facing probe over 'tourist rip-off'
• Police set to launch random breath tests in battle to beat drink driving
• Pietersen has faith in batting
• Everton: Stadium plans not dead
• LIVE CRICKET: Pietersen aiming for winning start at The Oval at the start of new era for England
• Rooney has a chance of being fit for United's league opener against Toon
• Pictured: Beijing loses smog battle as Great Wall is blanketed in pollution one day before Games begin
• Anderson agrees new Giants deal
• Surrogacy 'orphan' trapped in limbo after prospective parents divorce
• Lib Dems attack Olympics 'junket'
• Newell delighted by Prince coup
• Mum throws daughters from top-floor window to save them from house fire
• Temperatures could soar 4C in Britain putting coast at risk, warn top scientists
• Halifax dumps Howard from its TV ads because he's too jolly for a recession
• Rumer Willis has ANOTHER fashion disaster as she steps out in hideous grey dress
• Police find final missing body part of British teen stabbed to death in Brazil
• Sahar warning for Crouch and Defoe
• Gardeners on guard as marauding hordes of snails invade vegetable patches
• Troubled Pakistan's President Musharraf 'to be impeached'
• Rise in women drink-drivers
• Emma Watson's date with dashing actor she met at polo (and he even carries her bags)
• Teenager gunned down in gang crossfire had recently proposed to girlfriend
• Pro-Tibet activists leave China
• Trotters sign Shittu
• Ljungberg leaves Hammers
• Government 'call in' threatens stadium plans
• Katie Holmes further fuels pregnancy rumours by covering up her 'baby bump'
• Taxpayer fury at £7million Olympics 'junket' for 640 public servants
• Thaksin going nowhere
• Ronaldo - I'm staying
• House prices fall almost 9% as Bank of England keeps interest rates on hold
• CAS rules in favour of European clubs
• Harmison returns as Bopara misses out
• Injury ends Lloyd career
• Gay relationships 'not sinful'
• 20 most overcrowded jails named
• New arrest in student murders probe
• Tibet demo Britons 'to be deported'
• Men push commuter on to rail track
• Number 10 TV: Gordon Brown to star on his own online channel
• Plans for 'Euro CIA' could 'force Britain to share security secrets'
• Glitter will be 'free to roam the world at will' the day he leaves jail
• Archbishop's views on gay marriage make his job 'untenable', says church leader
• Philip privacy complaint
• DR ARIC SIGMAN: How seeing movies like Batman can turn our children violent
• Strachan warns his young Bhoys: Don't expect too much action
• ALEX BRUMMER: Can it be right for a hedge fund manager to make £28m on the back of so many people's misery?
• £30million trail of the mansion raiders: Traveller family who targeted super-rich jailed for 50 years
• Hospitals hit back over pest cases
• Man convicted of triple execution
• MAIL COMMENT: How can the NHS put a price on life?
• Palace denies Duke 'cancer' report
• Gang jailed over country home raids
• Murder squad police to question Rockefeller kidnapping suspect
• ITV half-yearly profits plummet 28%
• Pilots' union call off walkout
• The blonde helping Wills move back with dad, at the age of 26
• Harmy needs to perform or it will be Oval and out
• Trafalgar Sq festival will give us taste of the action in Beijing
• WAGs and riches? Not for Lion-heart Harris
• Teenagers on bail rob hundreds of security vans
• Lib-Dem plan: Say sorry and avoid jail
• The 15 London wards with the most criminals
• We may sue hospital say family of mother killed by E.coli bug
• Baby hedgehogs fight to survive unsettled summer
• Brownlee in the running for historic Brit medal
• Gears give up but hardy cyclist finishes 860-mile epic ride
• Faithful gay sex is same as marriage, says Archbishop
• Westbourne Grove opens again to buses
• City banker for the high jump
• London first: 'magic' wand that can spot mouth cancer
• Health giants join forces in research powerhouse
• Don't bet on the Games giving China democracy
• Biggest threat to Paula is the smog
• Leading role for a man in our life stories
• Bring on the 48-hour alert
• Bring on the 48-hour alert
• City millionaire's body lay in his flat for three weeks
• Parents raid pensions to meet costs of university
• Federer: Murray is my main rival for a golden end to season
• Detectives made attempt to bug McCanns' villa
• 'I'll challenge ban on kidney drugs until I die'
• Emergency £1.8m to fight off measles 'epidemic'
• Green row as Boris cancels low-carbon vehicles order
• Beijing's secret war on human rights activists
• Protests will go on vow Tibet pair
• Australians throw down the gauntlet to Team GB
• Smog all the way to Great Wall
• 'Junket' to China costs taxpayer £7m
• From a one-eyed shooter to a jailed drug addict, this is the true spirit of the games
• Innocent boy dies in crossfire
• Anti-knife plea by mother of victim
• Storm as Brit star is ruled out of Olympics
• Care home patients 'left dead in bed for days'
• Wellcome ‘is building a Marks & Spencer stake’
• Energy bills rise 'to fund the French'
• Stamp duty delay wrecks sales
• Lock, stock and tourists over a barrel
• Random breath tests in battle to beat drink driving
• Gordon Brown in web bid to boost image
• Crossrail backers raise doubts over financing
• Modric a doubt for start of season
• Sexism in City - and the truth about salaries
• Borthwick and Farrell split top job
• Clarke inspired by Harrington's heroics as he returns to the big stage
• Shock exits for seeded Spanish pair
• Favre out of retirement to join jets
• What I Talk About When I talk About Running by Haruki Murakami
• My first encounter with the dark beauty of Beijing
• Barclays chief says sorry as profits dive
• Halifax axe Howard's happy face
• Hammerson crashes £417m into red as it takes value hit
• In The Dark by Mark Billingham
• BA ex bosses face charges on price fixing
• New Friends Provident chief facing tough task
• Volatile world markets boost online gambling
• Trainer O'Brien hits Ladbrokes' earnings
• The Fame Formula: How Hollywood's Fixers, Fakers and Star Makers Created the Celebrity Industry by Mark Borkowski
• The Deportees by Roddy Doyle
• Basketball link in Siemens trial
• Warner hurt by slow ad growth
• Mrs Woolf & the Servants by Alison Light
• US heading for £200bn shortfall
• Honesty's the best fund policy
• Blears puts Smithfield development in limbo
• Queen riding on horse proposed as permanent statue for fourth plinth
• Sats results are halted after 'absent' pupils error
• Harmy back with a bang
• Billionaire pair told to take monthly drug test
• MMR doctor 'in a hurry' to link jab with autism
• Four BA bosses charged over price-fixing scandal
• Rowntree moves up for Johnson
• Drugs chief's Olympic fears
• Generator hit by £45m blowout
• Labour blamed for trains woes
• Bank risking recession by leaving interest rates at 5%
• Piping Live! Glasgow International Piping Festival
• Virgin media is losing the low payers
• Eco-protest hits Gatwick
• A Night Out in London: Never Forget & Browns
• Messi on target after deal
• Birdie blitz shows Monty isn't ready to give up on Ryder Cup quest
• Playwright, wit and smoking diarist Simon Gray dies of cancer
• Revisited Brideshead is no match for TV ancestor
• Nothing like an old fool in Elegy
• When will they allow Mummy to rest in peace?
• Timon is credit crunch tragedy
• Games with the Olympics
• Desert Storm for Flat Horizon
• Justice or revenge in Fall?
• Art that's good enough to eat in American Scene
• Animal magnetism in Fox and the Child
• Brutal boys from Brazil
• Predicting what's going to happen
• CJ7 tells toy story
• Miraculous ascent in Blindsight
• Houdini comes a cropper in Death Defying Acts