Bush bails out US mortgage giants

The Bush administration ripped up years of laissez-faire economic policies last night and launched a government takeover of two of the most powerful mortgage companies in the US. The move is designed to forestall a collapse in house prices that could plunge America into a new Great Depression and trigger chaos on the world's financial markets.

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Andy Murray will be the first Brit to reach the US Open final in 11 years

Murray beats Nadal to reach Open final new

Andy Murray tonight triumphed over world number one Raphael Nadal to reach the final of the US Open for the first time.

Pupils could be put in for tests when they are ready for them, along the lines of music examinations, under an exams overhaul

Balls signals end for SATs after 'fiasco' over marking

Next year's national curriculum tests for 1.2 million 11- and 14-year-olds in England could be the last, the Schools Secretary, Ed Balls, signalled yesterday.

Britain counts the cost of weekend's deadly deluge

The heavy rains that caused severe flooding and killed at least six people across Britain began to ease in many parts of the country yesterday.

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Palin power helps McCain draw level in race for the White House

The introduction of Sarah Palin as a running mate and a week of sustained attacks on Barack Obama from the Republican National Convention have helped John McCain draw level in the latest opinion polls.

Zola tops short shortlist for West Ham job

Gianfranco Zola has emerged as the firm favourite to become the next manager of West Ham United. The 42-year-old Italian has hugely impressed club executives with his ideas and enthusiasm for the job and his name will figure at the top of a reduced shortlist which will be presented to the West Ham owner and chairman, Bjorgolfur Gudmundsson, this evening.

No Money for Old Men: Tommy Lee Jones sues studio for $10m

As sheriff Ed Tom Bell, he risked death in the fight for justice, pursuing Javier Bardem's psychotic murderer across the desolate and lawless landscape of west Texas. Now Tommy Lee Jones is taking his love for the letter of the law a step further – albeit for more self-serving reasons.

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Darling on brink of suspending the golden rule

Chancellor Alistair Darling is understood to be close to temporarily abandoning the Government's fiscal rules rather than changing them when he presents his pre-Budget report later this autumn.

Pollution can make you fat, study claims

Children exposed to pesticide in womb twice as likely to be overweight, refuting idea of sole personal responsibility.

Electronic smog 'is disrupting nature on a massive scale'

Scientists deduce the key to finding love: declare it

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Study finds huge differences in regional health spending

Cancer patients in the metropolitan borough of Knowsley, near Liverpool, can count themselves fortunate in one respect. Unlucky though they are to have the disease, they live in the area with thehighest spending on cancer treatment in the country.

Field's collection for M&S hits stores in mid-October

Sex & the city near you: Carrie's stylist brings Manhattan to M&S

If the highs and lows of Marks & Spencer are one of the retail world's favourite soap operas, then the British chain has just revealed its most daring plotline so far. On Saturday night, in New York, at the start of the city's fashion week, the Sex and the City stylist Patricia Field showed the collection that will appear in M&S stores from next month.

Punk wars: McLaren accuses his son of selling fake clothes to dealers

Will power: The Daily Telegraph editor talks tough

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More children say they cannot complete exam scripts in longhand

Handwriting standards blamed as pupils ask for exam 'scribes'

Thousands of teenagers need "scribes" to help them write their A-level and GCSE papers because they are incapable of answering questions in longhand themselves, a study has revealed.

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