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Saturday, 3 May 2008
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News
UK
- Arbroath, home of the smokie, scales down its fishing fleet
- Mayor Boris: From blundering buffoon to tidy candidate
- Cripes! Boris takes London (and rounds off a rotten day for Gordon Brown)
- Brown's humiliation at the ballot box revives talk of a leadership challenge
- Greens register modest national gains
- Conservative leader completes transformation of the 'nasty party'
- Clegg delighted by party's unexpected wins
- Election2008: in brief
- Ken Livingstone: A long, colourful career dogged by controversy
- Fantasist and alcoholic jailed for plot to blackmail royal over 'gay sex tapes'
Europe
- Corporate jollies to oust 'cultural fuddy-duddies' from Pompeii ruins
- Plus ça change: forty years after battle of Sorbonne, Paris students go on the march
- Josef Fritzl: The making of a monster
World
- Helicopters shatter peace in the Hamptons
- Pregnant staff at Bloomberg claim sexual prejudice
- Obama shares 10 surprising facts
- High petrol prices see Americans ditch SUVs
- Quartet opens door to ending Hamas isolation
- Israeli police grill Olmert over new campaign fund allegations
- Pakistan coalition averts collapse with deal to restore ousted judges
- Tsvangirai faces run-off election
Business
- Xstrata in talks to buy Macarthur Coal
- Thailand proposes Opec-style cartel for exporters of rice
- House prices suffer worst decline since 1996, says Halifax
- Varley's 'enforcer' Idzik in shock departure at Barclays
- Rentokil to slash dividend after first-quarter profits fall
- Fierce takeover battle looms for RBS's insurance arm
- BAE technology may have been 'compromised', says Pentagon
- Jeremy Warner's Outlook: Ministers think housing woes all America's fault. They should look to beam in own eye
- Jeremy Warner's Outlook: Commodities enter bubble territory
- Pamela Harper: Luxurious job for a West End shopper
- Market Report: Admiral rallies as giant Allianz seeks a purchase
People
- Nancy Dell' Olio: Viva la diva
- My Secret Life: Greta Scacchi, actress, 48
- The 5-minute Interview: Vieux Farka Touré, Musician
- Tarka Cordell: a life in the fast lane
Education
Obituaries
- Aden Hashi Ayro: Militant Islamist leader in Somalia
- Julie Ege: 'Sex Symbol of the 1970s'
- Professor D. T. Whiteside: Historian of mathematics whose prodigious work on Newton's papers astonished the scholarly world
Opinion
Leading Articles
- Leading article: Mr Brown faces an uphill struggle as he surveys this new landscape
- Leading article: Civil War in the West End
Commentators
- Ian Gibson: Disappointed? I am angry! Let's show some conviction
- John Curtice: Tories are finally banishing ghost of Black Wednesday
- Chris Schuler: btw
- Rainer Nowak: As Austrians, we must rise above our persecution complex
- Andrew Grice: A Day in Politics
- Howard Jacobson: No need to be surprised when a house of horrors turns up on a quiet provincial street
- Deborah Orr: The real tragedy after 11 years of Labour is that we have learnt so little
- Christina Patterson: Why the Chinese have reason to feel pride
- Steve Richards: A tidal wave is sweeping over Labour
Columnists
- The Weasel: A sting in the tale
- Richard Ingrams' Week: The perils and pitfalls facing today's historians
- Dylan Jones: If you ask me
- David Lister: The Week in Arts
- Will Self: PsychoGeography
Letters
Sport
Football
- Wenger refuses to burden Arsenal with player wages
- Grant glee at keeping Ferguson off the red
- Keegan hails input of Chelsea coach
- Liverpool's £10m bid for Barry shows their limitations
- Scolari likely to resist lure of Eastlands
- Ronaldo wins football writers' prize for second year in a row
- Charlton miscount gives Giggs chance to set appearance record in Moscow
- Ferguson wary of Hammer blow
- Going up and coming down
- Gattuso harbours Premier ambition
- Rangers return to title marathon after a cup night to savour
- Avram Grant: Out of the blue
- Stan Hey: 6-5 against
- Sport on Radio: Jaundiced shades of Green obscure the picture
- Brian Viner: A knight to challenge Sir Alex in footballing derring-do
- Neil Warnock: What I've Learnt This Week
- Redknapp accuses police of 'unlawful' raid
- Brian McBride: Strife of Brian
- James Lawton: Grant's most haunting of pilgrimages a valuable reminder of football's real place
Cricket
- New Zealand 348-9 Essex: Cook suffers finger injury as Marshall seizes centre stage
- Yorkshire 299 Nottinghamshire 356-6: Read century offers timely reminder to Vaughan
- Sussex 475 Surrey 164-2: Relentless Ramprakash nears another landmark
Rugby
- Crunch time in the battle for play-off places
- Mike Ruddock: 'There's a football culture in rugby now. Patience has been drastically reduced'
Racing
- Chris McGrath: Rock-solid New Approach looks safest refuge in field of classic uncertainty
- Equestrianism: Hoy steers Moon Fleet into the lead
More Sports
- Bradford seek sprinkle of Cardiff magic dust
- Snooker: Rocket finds 'perfection' as he blasts into the final
Life & Style
Fashion
Food & Drink
- A top French restaurant in Croydon? My dear, how priceless
- Charles Campion: Real food
- Spanish lessons: Iberian-inspired recipes from Hix
- Wine: Bubble jeopardy
- My Life On A Plate: Tom Aikens
- Wine: Something For The Weekend?
- Butter beans, ham and asparagus
- Broad beans, salt cod and Jersey royals
- Padron peppers and chorizo
- Broccoli on sourdough with smoked anchovies
Health & Wellbeing
House & Home
- Peter York: The way we live now
- Diary of a Dorset Garden: Grass roots
- Anna Pavord: Weekend work
- Urban Gardener: Gone roaming
Motoring
Arts & Entertainment
Film & TV
- Little Einsteins: Can watching telly make your children cleverer?
- Play school: Train your child's brain
- It's a sex (and the city) thing
Music
Art & Architecture
Theatre
Travel
News & Advice
- Simon Calder: The man whose business is travel
- Something To Declare: Malta; Spain by train; Prague; Thailand – Plus Bavaria
- Five Best: Summer Alpine escapes
- My Life In Travel: Dan Cruickshank
48 Hours In
Africa
Americas
Asia
Australasia & Pacific
Europe
UK
Money
Invest & Save
- James Daley: The truth about comparison websites
- Share competition: Pick a stock and win £100
- VoIP: How to make calls abroad for free
- Prepaid cards could be the way we all spend in future
- Wealth Check: 'Should I abandon my plans to buy a home?'
- Questions Of Cash: The trouble with travelling to Russia
- Thrifty Living: The sewing world needs a celebrity to give it a spruce up
- Where to invest in the Subcontinent
- Escape from the global credit crunch in India
- The Analyst: In a nervous market, seek safety
- No Gain, No Gain: Why good news these days isn't as good as it was
- Private Investor: I'm banking on an upturn – but not just yet
Extras
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1 Body works: Photographs from the weird world of bodybuilding
2 A new torch controversy: the battle for Everest
3 Red Duchess a rebel to the last as she snubs family and leaves all to wife
4 Josef Fritzl: The making of a monster
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6 Liverpool's £10m bid for Barry shows their limitations
7 Cripes! Boris takes London (and rounds off a rotten day for Gordon Brown)
8 Mayor Boris: From blundering buffoon to tidy candidate
Emailed
1 Green tax revolt: Britons 'will not foot bill to save planet'
2 The great organic myths: Why organic foods are an indulgence the world can't afford
3 Red Duchess a rebel to the last as she snubs family and leaves all to wife
4 High petrol prices see Americans ditch SUVs
6 Mobile phones 'more dangerous than smoking'
7 Corporate jollies to oust 'cultural fuddy-duddies' from Pompeii ruins
8 University appoints world's youngest professor
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Columnist Comments
• Howard Jacobson: When a house of horrors turns up on a quiet street
Our fascination proves we know the dungeon is never far away
• Deborah Orr: After 11 years of Labour we have learnt so little
I think it is safe to say that the New Labour project is not looking healthy.
• Christina Patterson: Why the Chinese can rightly feel pride
Watching people in Tiananmen Square, I saw something I'd rarely seen in my life
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