• Home >
• 2008 >
• August

10 August 2008

• Isaac Hayes, the composer of Shaft, dies aged 65 after being found slumped beside treadmill
• Magnificent gymnast Louis Smith is a history-maker already
• Once a Hollywood legend, Doris Day is now an ageing recluse called Clara
• British gymnastics hopes turned on their head as Tweddle & Co struggle
• Redundancies could soar with a quarter of firms planning to cut jobs
• Mugabe: There are only 'little hurdles' to Zimbabwe deal
• Cancer patients are 'three times more likely to consider suicide'
• European Union 'employs more staff than the British Army', lobby group claims
• Soldier who kept loaded gun in Germany barracks is jailed
• Why factory farms are to blame for new superbugs
• Prison service draws up emergency plans over fears of Muslim plot to kidnap guards
• Top Asian police chief WILL lodge racism claim against Scotland Yard
• Sir Paul and new love Nancy get their pics on Route 66
• Gordon Brown's latest book project is British through and through
• Giant footprint fireworks in Beijing Olympics opening ceremony 'faked'
• Householders to be hit by £1,000 water bill with prices set to soar 60%
• Sporting birthdays - August 11
• Victims suffered head injuries
• Johnson at centre of power struggle as polls say Labour must ditch Brown to win
• Kaka 'could still join Chelsea'
• Quality of NHS care plummeting because Government failed to predict massive rise in immigrant births
• Chilling eyewitness accounts of the cost of the Georgia conflict
• Katie Holmes means business... turning up for rehearsal with briefcase and NO denims
• Poll delivers fresh blow to Brown
• Drogba happy to stay a Blue
• Dangerous offenders will be denied bail, vow Tories
• The 'excruciating anguish' of John Edwards' wife as she faced her husband's affair - and terminal cancer
• Ousted Thai PM Thaksin flies to London rather than face corruption charges
• It’s trophy No 30 for Sir Alex after Pompey’s comedy of shoot-out errors
• Britain urges ceasefire in Georgia
• Parry: Barry price too high
• Rhys Ifans is still lounging around with his Sienna lookalike
• The couple who face legal threat from council for feeding 'noisy' garden birds
• Author, 93, uses profits from first novel to buy massive house to spare friends misery of care home
• Anderson accepts stroke of luck
• Anderson strikes to boost England
• Harrington back in contention
• Robson seals Celtic win
• Scientists plan to plant hundreds of GM trees, despite fears of contamination
• Robson penalty gives SPL champions Celtic a winning start
• Thanou excluded from Beijing Games
• Look out Britney! Brand (and an elephant) get a little overfriendly
• Trio make move before rain arrives
• Amy looking frail as she leaves her flat for the first time in a fortnight
• LIVE COMMUNITY SHIELD: Manchester United v Portsmouth
• Scientists apply to plant GM trees
• Jewell: Rams must dig deep for victory
• Harmison puts England on track
• Bodies may be of Chinese students
• Newlywed graduate, 24, who set up business selling legal 'party drug' found drowned in bath by distraught husband
• Harmison makes early impact
• McCanns cautious over sighting lead
• Family wins battle for a second bin (and it only took two years!)
• Murray beginning quest for gold
• A-levels need 'more hard work now'
• Rain and injury frustrate England
• Magnificent Cooke storms to Britain's first gold medal at Olympic Games
• Brits left with battle for Bronze
• Dead cat found in bathroom of murdered Chinese couple at centre of police investigation
• Phelps smashes world record as he claims his opening gold
• Murder probe after two bodies found
• Swimmers struggle again on day two
• Georgia 'overrun' by Russian troops as full-scale ground invasion begins
• Owls of joy for Laws
• Relative of US volleyball coach killed
• Potters in Zigic talks
• Long steals the show for Saints
• Wednesday thrash Burnley in opener
• Delight for Doncaster
• Fallon fails in medal bid
• Men's four off to a flyer
• Ainslie bounces back
• 50 arrests at climate camp
• Daughters' tribute to murder victim
• Gordon Brown's relations with Health Secretary Johnson ‘at breaking point'
• Darling: I’ve been stitched up by No 10 on stamp duty
• Today's school pupils really do work harder... or at least they think they do
• Gerrard 'fixer' uses legal aid to launch appeal against jail conviction... while on the run
• How the Beijing authorities have even silenced the taxi drivers for the Olympics
• More than 50 protesters arrested over plans to build coal-fired power station
• Bank of England's rate cut hope dashed by sky-high inflation
• Mugabe and Tsvangirai 'on brink of signing power-sharing deal'
• After 'Hot Legs' Rod, Rachel looks set to marry her much younger ice man
• Credit crunch brides opt for Friday weddings to save money on cars, caterers and photographers
• Banks 'must be ready for recession'
• Surge in violent females - police
• BA will give up hundreds of U.S. flights to forge American Airlines pact
• Plea for 'secret detention' probe
• Academic freed from Brazilian jail