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Friday, 16 May 2008
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News
UK
- PM: tax move a necessity, not a political ploy
- Senior Shadow Cabinet figures in row over 'cash for influence'
- Brown against cut in abortion limit
- Musical fallout: Pop goes the politician...
- The Big Question: Why are girls committing more crime, and should we be alarmed?
- Bell ringer comes a cropper in church tower accident
- Through the keyhole of the castle voted UK's best home
Europe
- You are a celebrity, judge tells sister of Spanish royal
- Kampusch defends mother from kidnap plot claims
- Italian tolerance goes up in smoke as Gypsy camp is burnt to ground
World
- Obama attacks President for 'appeasers' jibe
- California ban on gay marriage thrown out
- Bush ignores Palestinians in speech on 'catastrophe day'
- Death toll predicted to reach 50,000
- Beichuan: a vision of hell
- Afghan death squads 'acting on foreign orders'
- Paranoid Burmese junta steps up security around Suu Kyi
- Butter that brought fat profits to the mud huts of Ghana
Business
- Hunter looks to continue legal fight over Dobbies Garden Centres
- Deloitte values BA’s Heathrow slots at £2bn
- FSA fines Axa’s mortgage broker Thinc £900,000
- CBS takes over CNet Networks for $1.8bn
- Shell's support for carbon capture plant raiseshopes for emissions cuts
- Oil veteran Boone Pickens makes $2bn gamble on wind farm in Texas
- German growth spurt surprises analysts
- Abbey poaches top RBS executive
- SABMiller ups beer prices after ingredients costs soar
- Wish you were here? Is the travel industry 'recession proof'
- Market Report: Cairn gains on bullish forecasts for oil prices
- The Investment Column: Surprise cash call should make investors wary of Balfour Beatty
People
Media
Education
- Delay in helping dyslexic pupils 'costs £1.8bn a year'
- Setting harms education of some young children, report warns
Obituaries
- Tommy Burns: Popular player, manager and coach unswerving in his devotion to Celtic Football Club
- Ivan Dixon: Kinchloe in 'Hogan's Heroes'
- Jeff Torrington: Author of 'Swing Hammer Swing!'
Opinion
Leading Articles
- Leading article: This debate over abortion is unwanted and irrelevant
- Leading article: How to weather the financial storms
- Leading article: Tone deaf
Commentators
- Joan Bakewell: No wonder the toffs are back with a vengeance
- Terence Blacker: Ignore the experts: here's the secret of happiness
- The Sketch: Sanity seems to have hit Gordon. The end is nigh
- Hermione Eyre: Cool title, but what does it mean?
- Dominic Lawson: He appears to have robotic self-discipline. But inside, Brown is a ferment of emotion
- Matthew Norman: These petty buffoons who ruled over us
Columnists
- Tracey Emin: My Life In A Column
- Miles Kington Remembered: Stuck for an idea? Then why not recycle some old ones?
- Pandora: What's the buzz around IDS?
- Thomas Sutcliffe: Bombs and bare-faced cheek
Letters
Environment
Nature
Sport
Football
- Anfield finance fears grow as credit crunch hits Hicks
- Summer Sales: Transfer news and speculation
- Eriksson remains in limbo over City role
- Ballack shows ruthless streak in free-kick row
- Ronaldo opens door to Real as he ponders United future
- Pompey's players' players relates to Cardiff
- Jones dedicates Wembley day to father 'killed' by abuse charges
- Wembley awaits Ramsey, the boy who would be king
- Champions League Competition
- Russia tells English fans to 'behave' in Moscow
- Rangers fans say best team won
- Moscow: We don't want Manchester's violence
- Tributes paid to a true football man
- Fans flock through gates at record rate
- Nwankwo Kanu: 'For years African players have been exploited...'
Cricket
- New Zealand 208-6 v England: McCullum fireworks add to his star status
- Surrey 278 Hampshire 204-7: Surrey's attack adds to plight of Mascarenhas
- Lancashire 113 & 233 Nottinghamshire 202 & 33-1: Shreck has the pace to join Nottinghamshire's national service
Rugby
Tennis
Racing
More Sports
- Chambers to open dialogue over doping
- Rugby League and cricket in unique double bill
- Mean Machine into first place
Life & Style
Health & Wellbeing
Arts & Entertainment
Film & TV
- Maze prison was as bad as Guantanamo, say producers
- Jack Kirby - the real comic book hero
- The Air I Breathe (15)
- La Antena (PG)
- Charlie Bartlett (15)
Heartbeat Detector (12A) - Outpost (18)
- RFK Must Die: the Assassination of Bobby Kennedy (NC)
- Shutter (15)
- Smart People (15)
- Some Came Running (PG)
- Terror's Advocate (12A)
- First Night: Hunger, Cannes Film Festival
- Last Night's TV: The Artful Codgers Channel 4
Flipping Out: Israel's Drug Generation, BBC4
Music
- Cultural Life: Alice Coote, Opera Singer
- Introducing hip-hop's songs of praise
- Elisa Bray: Caught in the Net
- Saluting the old masters of rock'n'roll
- Come on over to the dark side with The Zutons
- Album: Beth Rowley, Little Dreamer (Blue Thumb)
- Album: Bonnie 'Prince' Billy, Lie Down in the Light (Domino)
- Album: Mick Hucknall, A Tribute to Bobby (simplyred.com)
- Album: Santogold, Santogold (Lizard King/Atlantic)
- Album: The Ting Tings, We Started Nothing (Columbia)
- Album: Vetiver, Thing of the Past (Fat Cat)
- Babyshambles, Kentish Town Forum, London
- Falstaff, Theatre Royal, Glasgow
Art & Architecture
- Picture Post: The British Library reveals a collection of 17th-century manuscripts of a Sanskrit epic
- Robert Lenkiewicz: Larger than life and death
- Anonymous: The 'Chi-Rho' from 'The Book of Kells' (c.800)
Theatre
Books
- Boyd Tonkin: A Week in Books
- Emily Perkins: The benefit of distance
- Cover Stories: Political memoirs; the environmental Bible; Dorling Kindersley
- Spicing Up Britain, by Panikos Panayi
- The Oxford Book of Modern Science Writing, ed. Richard Dawkins
- A Country in the Moon, by Michael Moran
- Alfred and Emily, by Doris Lessing
Twenty Chickens for a Saddle, by Robyn Scott - Pilcrow, by Adam Mars-Jones
- Sea of Poppies, by Amitav Ghosh
- Pandora in the Congo, by Albert Sánchez Piñol, trans. Mara Faye Lethem
- Napoleon's Cursed War, by Ronald Fraser
- Isaac Rosenberg: the making of a Great War poet, by Jean Moorcroft Wilson
- Book Of A Lifetime: Things Fall apart, Chinua Achebe
- Paperbacks: Playing With the Grown-Ups, by Sophie Dahl
- Love Marriage, by VV Ganeshananthan
- Paperbacks: A Late Dinne, by Paul Richardson
- Paperbacks: Historic London, by Stephen Inwood
- Paperbacks: Black Mass, by John Gray
- Paperbacks: Why Aren't They Here?, by Surendra Verma
- Paperbacks: Icons of Graphic Design, by Steven Heller & Mirko Ilic
- Paperbacks: One Hundred Days: One Hundred Nights, by Christopher Bigsby
Travel
News & Advice
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In pictures: The Cannes Film Festival
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Commented
1 Howard Jacobson: Rebel too strongly against seriousness and what do you end up with? Boris Johnson
2 Terence Blacker: Ignore the experts: here's the secret of happiness
3 The great organic myths: Why organic foods are an indulgence the world can't afford
4 David Canter: Fritzl, like Fred West, believed he was a good man
5 The great organic myths rebutted
6 Joan Smith: Success is no antidote to addiction
7 The Sketch: Cameron's tune is sweeter than PM's 'karaoke Conservatism'
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