Article Archive - 12 August 2008

12 August 2008

Girl, six, freed after 39-hour armed siege ends
Fergie banks on Berbatov: United seal the deal for £25m Spurs striker
Breakaway MDC faction deny Mugabe's party's claim of a power-sharing deal in Zimbabwe
How a naked yoga session on a beach led to a £10,000 manhunt
Mumsy Natasha Kaplinsky's last minute dress rehearsal for motherhood
Turner's Earners: All the top tips for Wednesday August 13
Graduates facing a record debt burden of more than £20,000 EACH
Eto'o not Bridge bound after striker scores five in four games
Gunmen shoot four people dead in German ice-cream parlour rampage
A new Starr is born: Ringo's granddaughter takes to the stage with her rock band
Grandad Larceny: Britain's oldest career criminal, 76, jailed after his 68th conviction since 1943
A third of over-55s face retirement in the red with thousands of pounds of debt
A drop of respect: Jeff gets on with it and gives a lead to the game
Villa boss O'Neill planning £6m raid on Newcastle for England U-21 man Milner
Hughes to stay at City but Corluka edging towards White Hart Lane
Indian officials tell poor people to start eating rats: 'The beauty is we have billions of them'
Health and safety killjoys ban get-well cards in hospital ... because they clutter up wards
Ramsey could play as injury ravaged Gunners now lose Cesc
'We did NOT have sex on the beach - we were simply kissing and hugging,' British woman tells Dubai court
Sporting birthdays - August 13
John Lennon's 'still dangerous' killer denied parole for fifth time
Warnock tells Ince: I want to leave Ewood Park
Spurs sign Sanchez
No chance of United improving, insists Chelsea captain Terry
Beijing Diary: Radcliffe gives it a go as China plays rent-a-yellow-crowd card
Hunger strike at immigration centre
Cook lives the dream after claiming bronze in dramatic Eventing final
BT threaten to call bailiffs over couple's 1p bill
On this day in sport - August 13
Emms relishing the badminton battle after tasting sweet revenge
It's good to talk: Warring Daley and Aldridge bury the hatchet
Cameron slams stamp duty 'dither'
Town hall snoopers want bedroom access to check tax discount pensioners are living on their own
Boy, 13, becomes 'youngest person ever' charged with possessing a gun
Vegas bride Peaches Geldof shows off her ring... but not her husband
Council snoopers to get new powers to seize phone and email records - with taxpayers footing the £50m bill
Office workers sent home in disgrace after having sex in window as onlookers cheered
Forget the yobs, it was the police who did me more damage, says airgun-toting teacher
Injury plagued Radcliffe will race for marathon gold in Beijing
'No smugness': Cameron insists Tories aren't taking next election for granted
Soaring number of arrested Britons
Boro bid for Hoyte
Pioneering technique ends baby wait
Rape payouts cut for drunk victims
Pacing pavements: Mika hits the town with 'beautiful big girl' Adele
GP with 2,500 patients kills himself after being unable to cope with pressures of job
Sidwell out of cup tie
Get a vroom! Scarlett and fiance Ryan pucker up on the back of his vintage motorbike
Sultry Julianne Moore defends onscreen nudity in stunning new photo-shoot
Twente boss McClaren worries team will struggle against Arsenal in qualifier
Injury blow for Pienaar
Valencia turn down United bid for homebody Silva - agent
Belgium sighting is not Madeleine
Amazing Emms and Robertson comeback ain't half badminton
Hammers boss Curbishley plays down Green link to Gunners
Figures show more house price gloom
Catch me if you can: George Clooney in hysterics as he speeds away from fan on his motorbike
Flood alerts issued for parts of UK
ICC attempt to allay players' fears over playing Champions Trophy in Pakistan
Cas swoop for Widders
Thaksin committed to City vision
Cook: City future not in jeopardy and Thaksin is going nowhere
Guitar player who claimed £5,000 in benefits for bad back caught jumping around on stage
I wish I had more time - Radcliffe
Man who stabbed himself to frame his neighbour is told to move house or go to jail
House prices fall £1,600 in a month as number of home loans is halved
Van Persie: Dutch 'proud' to have ex-England manager McClaren
Pensioners banned from playing cards - because of elf 'n' safety
THE INSIDER: Hull's new King... Spurs make Nene wait... Seb's low down on Moyes' priorities but could still leave City soon... Plus Joe Cole and David Healy
Cesar hailed as Spurs boss Ramos lands veteran Spanish goalkeeper
Pietersen has Ashes win in his sights
Kerry Katona plans £15,000 extreme body makeover to regain size eight figure
Stuart and Rachel face the public vote as they are nominated for eviction
Steven Gerrard scores own goal with ugly £350,000 gym at the bottom of his garden that upsets the neighbours
Decomposed body of Briton who vanished is discovered buried under rocks in Spain
Cole: Arsenal must ditch 'Harlem Globetrotter' style if they want success
Spofforth so close to Olympic medal
Last again! Britons Tonia and Stacey slide to another synchronised flop
Barry's Reds move hangs in balance as he may play for Villa in UEFA Cup
Toned Gabriela shows Lembit what he's missing on a Cheeky holiday to Marbella
Teenager carjacker, 14, jailed after subjecting victim to ten-hour kidnap ordeal
University applications 'solid'
The cat that's got the cream: Pussycat Doll Nicole keeps a firm grip on Lewis Hamilton
Teenager Walcott will be a world-class player for England, says Joe Cole
Upbeat Capello is tight-lipped about revealing squad and new captain
Bent in Capello's thoughts
Florence wins silver after coming from fourth place in slalom canoeing final
Mel B turns her back on Britain as she admits she prefers US soaps to Corrie and 'Enders
Walcott will be world-class: Cole
Cameron quits break to target Brown
Olympic joy for Team GB as paddler scoops a silver in slalom canoeing and three-day eventers take two bronzes
Not so Bon: Ageing Simon shows off Le paunch...while wife Yasmin still looks stunning in bikini
Yo-yoing Janet Jackson desperately trying to lose weight for new world tour
More than a third of 14-year-old boys have a reading age of 11 or below
Russia urged to end offensive
The moment Cheryl Cole is reduced to tears on the X Factor
Porky Hammer striker Ashton's told to get rid of the flab by Fabio
Boris Johnson brands Gatwick bosses 'chimpanzees' after his holiday bags go missing
Murray lifted by doubles success
League monitor City situation
Sleek Katie Holmes outguns unco-ordinated Tom Cruise in the fashion stakes
'Madeleine' CCTV woman not traced
Study probes rise in A-level grades
Rape payouts cut for drunk victims
Former Arsenal star Overmars gets go ahead for Eagles comeback
Daley row after Olympic disappointment
Major master looking for spring success
Armoured cars on streets of Beijing as terrorism fears grow
Villa boss O'Neill clinches an £8m deal as Spanish star Carlos quits Rangers
'I'm worth it' says trader as he is handed record-breaking £156m bonus
Met chief 'tried to stop Muslim officer who was head of security for 2012 going to Beijing'
Russia and Georgia both agree to ceasefire negotiated by Sarkozy
Could pregnancy be improving the fashion sense of the 'worst-dressed WAG'?
Former Rangers star Gio sold rivals Celtic to Crosas
Experts predict inflation rate rise
Hospitals on alert as drinkers steal high-alcohol hand gels used in battle against superbugs
Fresh heartache for McCanns as police say Belgian sighting is NOT Madeleine
Clean up wards or lose your patients, hospitals are warned
Tomlinson given Beijing green light
Para Lee Clegg wrongly jailed over Belfast shooting returns to frontline as Afghanistan medic
Snoop on phone records to spot crime, watchdog urges councils
Villa agree fee for Cuellar
Financial question marks for City
Pompey complete Kaboul signing
Adlington ends swimming gold drought
England seal first win of KP era
Small firms leave offices for home
Collett awarded big payout
Humans wiped out giant kangaroo
Inflation-busting water bill rise
Police baffled by Antigua murders
Unstoppable Phelps makes it a hat-trick of gold medals as he sails home again
GB women keep hockey medal hopes alive with draw against Argentina
'Frenzied killer' murdered students
Injured footballer awarded �4.5m
Man charged with teenager's murder
Supermarket sparks fuel price war
Brown under fire as ex-minister warns Labour is in a 'deep hole'
Payouts slashed for rape victims who were drunk
Ministers' dithering over stamp duty 'stops housing market in its tracks'
Sir Bill Cotton, king of BBC comedy, dies at 80
French illegal immigrants detained in the centre they helped to build
Police face 13 hours of form-filling just to keep watch on a known burglar
On this day - August 12
Motorists hit with £633million bill as councils push up price of parking in town centres by 14 per cent
Food shopping costs �27 a week more
Are you busy doing nothing three hours a day?
Credit card interest rates up despite cut in base rates
Judge admits Madeleine's case was at a 'dead end' in December - but it took another 7 months to clear McCanns
Arrogant, illogical and totally out of touch, NICE must be scrapped ...it's killing too many people
Judge brands court worker an 'illiterate idiot' after spelling word wrong four times on charge sheet
INVASION: Russia launches blitz on Georgia as Putin brushes aside calls for ceasefire
Police arrest 100 at climate camp
The new pill that could signal the death of the common cold
One third of whites claim they are victims of racism
Blues winger Larsson wants top flight - but City offer new deal
Johnson snubs new deal at Man City and could be Arsenal-bound
Shame of binge drink Britons abroad as number arrested on holiday soars 15% in a year
OWEN MATTHEWS: Why puppet-master Putin is more dangerous than ever
Villa agree £7.8m fee to sign defender Cuellar from Rangers
EXCLUSIVE: City in crisis as Shinawatra forced to borrow £2m from ex-chief Wardle just to pay the players
MAIL COMMENT: Why brutal Putin doesn't fear the West
Terry Wogan hits out at BBC bosses for caring more about their wage packets than values
More woe for Everton: Pienaar sidelined after breaking big toe
Magpies eye Warnock but Ince wants to keep Rovers together
Sean Connery: How he seduced a movie legend and faced the wrath of the Mafia
Motivated KP is ready to get tough
By Jupiter, I'm seeing planets, not stars
My fight to save my fertility (and how I survived Sir Alan)
Businesses urged to open lavatories to public
Westwood opposes plan to build flats on roof of her old home
Russia fights on the page as well as on the front line
Let's stop testing children and educate them instead
So you think Obama is a reformer. Dream on
Phelps' gold rush gathers pace
'My rape payment was cut because I was drunk'
Dirty wards could cost hospitals their licence
Labour councillor cautioned for gay insult at election
In town on a budget? Start crying, says tourist guide
Train that runs on soya and seeds
Capital's secret gardens are granted a new lease of life
The return of Putin and humiliation for the West
Jewish radio closed by Galloway insult case
Student faces Greek trial over nightclub killing
Met chief 'tried to stop his head of security for 2012 going to Beijing'
Collins Stewart's profits crash 82% as listings fall off
New rules to curb 'chuggers' who harass shoppers
Trains into London now slower than in 1987 - or is just a ruse?
Boris should play hardball with Bob Crow
Berbatov on brink of United transfer
My simple plan to make London a real cycling city
ITV shares pumped up by Big Brother bid talk
Comment: Rail swindle
Comment: War stops but no real peace
BBC pays tribute to 'giant' of television Sir Bill Cotton
I'm worth it says trader given �156m bonus just to stay at hedge fund
C in the Eighties would be worth an A grade now
More than a third of teenage boys fail their reading Sats
Russia orders halt to invasion of Georgia
'Like at Stalingrad, we must fight for every house in this town'
How the conflict unfolded
Inflation rise hits families
Glimmer of hope as housing slump eases in London
Ashton's told to get rid of the flab by Fab
Met takes two minutes to answer 999 call
If they fought to get tickets why are there so many empty seats?
What's next for Next - in English, please
InterContinental Hotels sees past gloom with bet on China
Ex-Focus boss turns his sights on Woolies
Rise of the human dolphin
'Passengers suffering under BAA monopoly'
Boris slams Gatwick over lost bags
Adecco praise for Page as it targets a buy
Women's hockey hopes still alive after fightback
Cole: Confidence is sky-high at Chelsea
Impressive start in regatta sees Clark taking aim at laser target
Unsynchronised Tom must learn to duck and dive
Another �173m loss for UBS as the rich pull out
Lucinda Ledgerwood fights back
Tesco dives into India with Tata deal to rival Wal-Mart
HSBC hopes for Korea deal rise
Mine giants bet on solar power
�3 more years of market turmoil�
DVDs of the week
JPMorgan Chase takes a hit on loans
Investors embracing the dollar as metals lose their lustre
'Painful' fourth for Spofforth despite late comeback in pool
ICC allay players' fears
Ryder Cup rivals fear Harrington
Capello's backing Bentley to up the pressure on Becks
Gullit quits and Lalas sacked in Galaxy shake-up
Capital poorly served by GPs who work out of office hours
Florence times his run to perfection
Comment: Stalking this stag will be a long hard trail
Comment: This aggression cancels 'business as usual'
Faulds: I never had chance of gold
Stand up to Putin, say Tories
Faulds: I never had chance of gold
Four-stone diver's winning recipe: no dinner for a year
Perfect run seals silver in canoes for Britain
British coach Edwards in blast at judges after Murray's shock exit
Train fares rocket by 10%
Oil price dives after Russia�s �ceasefire� in Georgia conflict
Headache over rates as inflation hits highest since 1992
Crossrail bill set to soar by �4billion, say experts
Smashers serve up a thriller
Eventing team keep their cool to claim the bronze
Johnson's joy at deal for stars
Yes, Noah and the Whale are a real band
Scots design another winner with Architecting
There's no one quite like Edward Aczel
Murder on the Seine with Noseda
Mulgrew Miller is Old master with new tricks
Two become one at The Globe
Flying Horse has a facelift
Shame Greyhound isn't busier

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