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Friday, 13 June 2008
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News
UK
- Wayne's wedding: The only thing money won't buy...
- No fuel for forecourts as tankers' strike begins
- Harrods and Selfridges unite to join staff blacklist
- Man died after inhaling spores of garden fungus
- Navy says sorry for death of submariners
- Brown says world needs 1,000 extra nuclear power stations
- A revamp for Lord's? It's just not cricket
- Freedom Of Information: Watchdog targets government and public institutions
- Safe Conservative territory pitched into political spotlight
- Davis resignation: Unlikely hero of liberal Britain shocks the political establishment
- The Haltemprice and Howden declaration
- How frustrated rival pulled a late-night surprise on his leader
- Labour takes wind out of Davis's sails by refusing to contest by-election
- Davis' successor is no pushover
- SAS man who climbed the greasy pole – and jumped off
- Man is remanded over shop murder
World
- Russian buyer snaps up £2.7m decoration that was worn by the tsar
- Europe holds its breath for result of Ireland's vote
- Riddle of the pet rabbit serial murders
- Greenpeace in hot water over 'submerged La Manga' images
- The end of Communism? Cuba sweeps away egalitarian wages
- Supreme Court condemns Guantanamo
- As euro soars, NY landmark falls to Italian
- Obscenity trial halted as judge admits putting porn on his website
- Morgan Freeman and Charleston's first integrated prom
- Gaza 'genius' helps beseiged city survive a year of Israel's blockade
- Olympics inspire Chinese parents in search of a name
- US ambassador warns of ‘massive starvation’
- Zimbabwe opposition negotiator is accused of treason
- Britain and US 'complicit in war crimes by Ethiopian military'
Business
- Blow for Bank as consumer inflation fears escalate
- Retailers are latest to feel wrath of markets as sales slide
- BP chairman blasts Russian partners as 'corporate raiders'
- Wall Street's leading woman pays price for Lehman's losses
- Iberdrola pulls out of the running for British Energy
- Brown calls for global talks to tackle oil and food price crisis
- Gas giants face collusion inquiry
- Citigroup to close Old Lane hedge fund
- Yahoo rejects Microsoft's advances and seals advertising deal with Google
- Woolworths fined for breaking FSA rules
- Google admits it still can't make money from YouTube
- Will the king of beers accept its prince?
- The Investment Column: Savills not too posh to be pushed into maelstrom
- Market Report: Investors dig in to Camec on talk of Swiss interest
People
- Cultural Life: Sophie Thompson, actress
- Scolari: If you thought Mourinho was mad...wait till you meet Big Phil
- The 5-minute Interview: Kay Burley, Journalist
Science
Education
- Private schools chief quits after attacks on state sector
- Tenth of brightest pupils opt out of higher education
Obituaries
- B. L. Burtt: Plant taxonomist
- Vo Van Kiet: Reformist Vietnamese premier
- Nat Temple: Clarinettist and bandleader
Opinion
Leading Articles
- Leading Article: Laudable principle,reckless egotism
- Leading Article: How to unnerve Mr Ahmadinejad
- Leading Article: The price of addiction
Commentators
- Rupert Cornwell: Cuban leader must learn from Gorbachev's mistakes
- Michael Brown: David Davis is one of my best friends, but his sole character flaw has got the better of him
- Ellie Levenson: Such cheap snobbery about Wayne's wedding
- The Sketch: Deal or no deal, are we still expected to believe the PM?
- Dominic Lawson: Why should Democratic Unionists hold us to ransom?
- Matthew Norman: We are the world leaders in ineptitude
- Steve Richards: The first piece of good fortune for Gordon Brown
Columnists
- Tracey Emin: My Life In A Column
- Miles Kington Remembered: How to get the most out of churches, pubs and crop circles
- Pandora: Queen Mother's horse enlists
- Thomas Sutcliffe: Why TV must look to its past
- Brian Viner: Elect a leader who doesn't split infinitives
Letters
Environment
Nature
Sport
Football
- Villa reject third Barry bid
- Allardyce moves ahead of Ince in Blackburn race
- Transfer News and Speculation, 13 June
- How Mendes has made himself key player behind the biggest deals in Europe
- The language barrier that may have been lost in translation
- Why the man from the Gaucho is certainly not another Mourinho
- Torres and Kaka top list as Blues plot transfer binge
- Austria 1 Poland 1: Austria stay alive thanks to Webb's intervention
- Croatia 2 Germany 1: Bilic energises Croatia to leave Germans in need of recharging
- Donadoni will pay price if Italy fail to break defence
- Henry and Vieira to be recalled by the French
Cricket
- Twenty20 boom is 'scary' admits Collingwood
- Australia 226-7 v West Indies: Symonds luck runs out to hand West Indies upper hand
Rugby
- 'To win we must play with courage'
- All Black camp's insecurities give Borthwick's team a chink of light
- Gatland denies Hook at full-back is a gamble
Golf
Tennis
Racing
More Sports
- Brian Viner interviews Mo Farah
- Robles puts Bolt in shade with his own world record
- Castleford to give Sargent his stripes
- Problems for Malbon as he asks for deadline extension
Life & Style
Health & Wellbeing
- Super surgeries to be built in London
- Surgeon: organ trade should be legalised
- Advanced breast cancer drug is launched
- One in four body piercings goes wrong
- The Big Question: What are polyclinics, and why are doctors so angry about them?
Arts & Entertainment
Film & TV
- Mary Kate Olsen - she wants to be alone
- How Sir David Lean had an epic falling out with Steven Spielberg over the filming of a Conrad novel
- In Search of a Midnight Kiss (15)
- Irina Palm (15)
- The Happening (15)
- Numb (15)
- Priceless (12A)
- Taxi to the Darkside (15)
- The Incredible Hulk (12A)
- Last Night's TV: Margaret Thatcher: The Long Walk to Finchley, BBC4
Music
- The beatbox goes on
- On the hunt for meaning with Seattle band Fleet Foxes
- Caught in the Net by Elisa Bray
- Tom Waits: a conversation with himself
- Album: Aimee Mann, @#%&*! Smilers (Superego)
- Album: Larry Jon Wilson, Larry Jon Wilson (1965)
- Album: Lil Wayne, Tha Carter III (Cash Money)
- Album: N*E*R*D, Seeing Sounds (Star Trak)
- Album: Solomon Burke, Like a Fire (Pinnacle)
- Album: Dennis Wilson, Pacific Ocean Blue (Sony BMG)
- Fleet Foxes, University of London Union, London
- Powder her Face, Royal Opera House: Linbury Studio Theatre, London
Art & Architecture
Theatre
- Kevin Spacey joins Oxford University
- You write the reviews: Troilus and Cressida, Barbican, London
- The Chalk Garden, Donmar Warehouse, London
Books
- Boyd Tonkin: A Week in Books
- Daren King: The author who dances
- Cover Stories: Joya's story; shock as Friedman goes; The Group reconvenes
- Book of a Lifetime: The Anathemata, byDavid Jones
- Attachment, by Isabel Fonseca
- Semi-invisible Man, by Julian Evans
- Bonk, by Mary Roach
- A Fraction of the Whole, by Steve Toltz
- Kirby: king of comics, by Mark Evanier; Superheroes!, by Roz Kaveney
- The Broken Word, by Adam Foulds; Mandeville, by Matthew Francis; For All We Know, by Ciaran Carson
- Breath, by Michael Symmons Roberts
- Evening is the Whole Day, by Preeta Samarasan
- Pick of the picture books
- Bloody Old Britain, by Kitty Hauser
- Paperback: You'll Win Nothing With Kids, by Jim White
- Paperback: Girls of Riyadh, by Rajaa Alsanea
- Paperback: The Truth That Sticks, by Martin Bell
- Paperback: Tennis Whites and Teacakes, by John Betjeman
- Paperback: The Sirens of Baghdad, by Yasmina Khadra
- Paperback: The Line Upon a Wind, by Noel Mostert
- Paperback: Microtrends, by Mark J Penn with E Kinney Zalesne
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2 Exposed: the hygiene scandal on the high street
3 Now the opposition takes up arms in Zimbabwe
4 'I fell in love with a female assassin'
5 Bush 'may convert to Catholicism'
6 Chris Martin gives Radio 4 interviewer the cold shoulder
7 Queen's Birthday Honours: Full list
8 Andy Gill: 'Why I hate Coldplay'
9 Tories urge Davis to change his mind as contest threatens to descend into farce
Emailed
1 Ahead of the herd: Norman Foster redesigns the elephant house at a Denmark zoo
2 How Sir David Lean had an epic falling out with Steven Spielberg over the filming of a Conrad novel
3 The cheesy secret behind successful decision making
4 Tom Waits: a conversation with himself
5 Don't hire cowboys; you'll only shoot yourself in the foot
6 Bush 'may convert to Catholicism'
7 Caution: Some soft drinks may seriously harm your health
8 Exposed: the hygiene scandal on the high street
9 Fade to black: Is this the end of oil?
10 Gaza 'genius' helps besieged city survive a year of Israel's blockade
Commented
1 Helena Kennedy: Why I support this passionate politician
2 Sarah Churchwell: His skin colour won't stop Obama. The colour of his politics might...
3 Yasmin Alibhai-Brown: Calling Obama black is an insult to his mother
4 Tony Blair: As the world becomes smaller, the need to understand each other's faith grows
5 Andy Gill: 'Why I hate Coldplay'
6 Surgeon: organ trade should be legalised
9 Deborah Orr: How bright, privileged young people can turn into murderous sociopaths
10 Hugh Pennington: This is shocking – diners should be worried
Columnist Comments
• Deborah Orr: How bright, privileged young people can turn into murderous sociopaths
Fifteen years is plenty of time for a mother of three to reflect
• Howard Jacobson: It's the end of civil liberties as we know it
We dread every new CCTV camera as we dread a nightmare
The Independent On Sunday
- Clinton: 'I ask you to work as hard for Obama as you have for me'
- Threat of world Aids pandemic among heterosexuals is over, report admits
- Security chiefs offer late boost to plans for 42-day detention
- Children at breaking point: Knives, guns, bullies...growing up in today's UK
- No longer joined at the hip: Why 'Tony's twin' is on his own
- Britain vs Britton: TV presenter Fern attacked over weight loss surgery
- Martha Wainwright: Why do I get nerds?
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