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Tuesday, 19 August 2008
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News
News RSS Feed - click to grab the feedObituaries
- Levy Mwanawasa: President of Zambia who fought against corruption and was a fierce and vocal critic of Robert Mugabe
- Professor Michael Baxandall: Influential art historian with a rigorously cerebral approach to the study of painting and sculpture
- Douglas Farnie: Historian of the cotton industry
- Terence Rigby: Actor admired by Harold Pinter
- Nicola Rescigno: Co-founder of Dallas Opera
- Lee Young: Jazz drummer and bandleader
- Peter Coke
Voices
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- Michael Brown: Why not tell voters the truth?
- Denis MacShane: The mood has darkened across the whole of Europe
- Frances Crook: When prison fails, community sentencing can work
- Alan McGee: An original beauty is born in Scotland's rock'n'roll city
- Ian Oliver: Legalising drugs would only make matters worse
- Podium: Pervez Musharraf: I am resigning to give my country the chance to heal
- Susie Rushton: Urban Notebook
Sport
Sport RSS Feed - click to grab the feedCricket
- England set to follow Australia by pulling out of Trophy
- Willoughby pair leaves Hampshire struggling on first day
- England game rained off
- England face safety or cash decision over 'unloved' Trophy
- Scotland 156-9, England 10-0 (match abandoned; no result): Bresnan and Patel shine before rain hits Scottish showpiece
- Jones hopes of international return shattered by fresh injury
- Durham on the up after Wagh's fall sparks Notts collapse
Olympics
- Bolt breaks world record
- Ohuruogu gold gives GB best tally for a century
- Ohuruogu targets 'full set of medals'
- Hoy in historic hat-trick
- Veteran Danvers claims shock bronze
- Double delight for Britons caught up in 'fight in a lake'
- Reade crashes into tomorrow's BMX showdown
- Record-breaker Hoy hoping to inspire future golden years
- DeGale breezes into semis to ensure another medal
- Sotherton anger at doping cheat
- Shaw digs deep for bronze but Dempsey falls short
- Reade bounces back from early BMX fall
- Hoy cycles into record books with hat-trick of pure gold
- James Lawton: Olympic flame triumph cannot mask burning question
- Ohuruogu the Orient Express
- Mason wins high jump silver
- After The Party: What happens when the Olympics leave town
- Bronze for hurdler Danvers
- Silver medalist fails drugs test
- Star sailors on course for medal
- Payne and Patten continue medal rush
- Olympics: it just gets better
- David Ashdown's sports picture diary: Beijing Olympics - Synchronized swimming
- Argentina 3 Brazil 0: Argentina in final after routing arch rivals
- On the Beijing Beat: 'Free expression' struggles to find outlet at the Games
- Pendleton swaps baking cakes for sweet success
- Mason bolts from the blue with leap to unlikely silver
- Jeffries swaps his burger van for medal chance
- The ride of their lives: Britannia rules the wheels
- From helmet to tyres, how nothing is left to chance
- Triathlon: Yorkshire lad who dared to win
- Jeffries assured of boxing medal
- Disappointment for Cavendish and Wiggins
- Lessons in how to lose in style
- Goodison gets GB off to a golden morning
- Dom Joly: How a brush with Spanish royalty made me king of the media centre
- David Ashdown's sports picture diary: Beijing Olympics - Triathlon
- On The Beijing Beat: IOC announces back to the future dope-testing regime
- Brabants eager to add to compatriots' medal haul
- James Lawton: Price packs the punch to walk in step with legends
- Idowu leaps ahead as Rutherford medal quest fails
- Gymnastics: Tweddle the loser as age doubts mar He's triumph
- Ready, steady, go – the race to turn gold into millions
- London to stage parade in honour of Beijing medallists
- Heartbreak for China as hero limps out before first hurdle
- DeGale progresses to middlewight semi-finals
- Bronze for windsurfer Shaw
- 'Trainaholic' reaps reward for absolute dedication to his art
- Cyclists move into gold medal positions
- 1 Bankers could face jail after report urges the Government to introduce new criminal offence for reckless management
- 2 Breaking the Silence: In the reality of occupation, there are no Palestinian civilians – only potential terrorists
- 3 Richard Nieuwenhuizen death: Six teenagers and 50-year-old father convicted of manslaughter in shocking case of referee killed over a game of football
- 4 Exclusive: Newcastle's star talent-spotter on brink as Joe Kinnear sparks walkout
- 5 Vast methane 'plumes' seen in Arctic ocean as sea ice retreats
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