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City's 21st stab victim killed near MP's home

A teenager has been stabbed to death outside a row of £1million homes - the 21st to be killed in London this year Comments

Brown aims to cut troops in Iraq
Further poll blow for Labour
Police probe party-goer's murder
Regulator considering Sats options
Poll backs jail for knife-carriers
Surgeons may get operation bonuses
Chancellor calls a halt to spending
Survey highlights number of 'Neets'
Olympic chiefs to review drugs ban
Found knife 'was not murder weapon'

Councils sign up to Boris alcohol ban on under-21s

A ban on selling alcohol to young adults looks set to be rolled out across London after councils gave their backing to the groundbreaking anti-binge drinking plan Comments

Mayor backs ban on alcohol for under-21s

Canoe wife 'wanted to keep family together' with lies

Anne Darwin claimed she had no idea she was breaking the law by pretending her husband was dead to claim insurance money

Friends of Ben Kinsella wore fancy dress at his funeral

Fancy dress for Ben's funeral

Friends of Ben Kinsella, the teenager stabbed to death in north London, wore fancy dress to celebrate his life Comments

Business

Bank pair raise �8bn - but may need more
HBOS and Barclays secure a combined �8.5bn in fresh capital

Freddie Mac's �5bn shares sale | Kier cuts 375 jobs

Sport

Dwain Chambers loses Beijing battle
Sprinter loses High Court bid to be allowed to compete at Olympics

Sir Alex: Ronaldo will stay | Deco's plea for Lamps to stay

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First view: a new angle to the Tate Modern extension

A plan for a glass ziggurat to house the £215 million extension to the Tate Modern has been dropped Comments

Comment: Makeover is simply better

Family of barrister shot dead by police win court review

The sister of a barrister shot dead by police after a five-hour siege in Chelsea has launched the first stage of a landmark legal case Comments

�9.2bn borrowing surge as Brown loosens rules

Public sector borrowing surged by £9.2billion last month as the economic slowdown hammered public finances Comments

Comment: The Golden Rule is tarnished

Lawyer in Ghaffur's Met battle is fighting his own �10m race case

The lawyer hired by Tarique Ghaffur in his legal showdown with the Metropolitan Police, is himself fighting his own £10million discrimination claim Comments

Is Soros taking his biggest gamble ever?

The buzz in the City is that George Soros, the greatest speculator of the age, is betting heavily that the FTSE will plummet Comments

Revealed: Labour's most radical benefits shake-up

The Government's entire welfare reforms - including plans to scrap Income Support and make thousands of disabled people look for work - have been leaked to the Evening Standard Comments

Westminster to build 500 affordable homes

A council is building more than 500 affordable homes in the heart of London, in the biggest public housing scheme of its kind for a generation Comments

Comment: Homes for all

Virgin being wooed to run 'supersurgery' in Camden

Billionaire Virgin boss Sir Richard Branson is being wooed to run polyclinics in London Comments

Gas boss: It's time to wear two jumpers

Householders were facing a new blow on gas bills with a warning they could soar by two thirds within two years Comments

We're all going on a summer holiday ... near home to save cash

The urge for long-haul holidays in exotic locations has taken a major hit thanks to the credit crunch and the the Terminal 5 fiasco Comments

McCanns will be cleared and want all Maddy files

Kate and Gerry McCann will demand complete access to police files when they are finally cleared on Monday of any involvement in the disappearance of their daughter Madeleine Comments

New high-speed rail 'would end need for Heathrow expansion'

Plans for a new high-speed rail service are to be revealed on Monday in a bid to demolish the case for expansion at Heathrow Comments

'Enough is enough', says sister of murdered teen

The sister of Ben Kinsella, one of the 21 teenagers to be killed in London this year, today issued an emotional plea as he was buried, saying: "Enough is enough" Comments

London's 21st teenage stabbing victim this year

Ticket inspectors stole cash fares in card scam

Two married ticket inspectors have admitted using stolen credit cards to pocket thousands of pounds in fares Comments

Buskers fear TfL will scrap Tube pitches

Buskers could disappear from Tube stations because of a change in management, it was claimed Comments

Dr Gunther's zoo of death

The corpse of a 16ft tall giraffe, treated with chemicals to preserve its body, will the centrepiece of the O2 Centre's new blockbuster Comments

The bendy bus that didn't

A bendy bus caused traffic jams in the West End after it failed to negotiate a bend and smashed into a bollard Comments

Brown links 'compromised think-tank's neutrality'

A think-tank which staged at least 42 events at 11 Downing Street while Gordon Brown was Chancellor has been rapped for compromising its independence Comments

Singer wins 'bigot' libel claim

Yusuf Islam, the former Cat Stevens, accepted substantial undisclosed libel damages over a claim he was a sexist bigot who wouldn't speak to women not wearing a veil Comments