Monday, 16 August 2010


The First Post

Ten things you need to know this Monday

Nick Clegg's in charge (or is he?), plus BAA tries to avert airport strike and FA insists Capello's replacement will be English

What did our boys die for? Ever the Afghan question

Obama could learn from Gorbachev, says the author of an acclaimed account of the Soviet debacle

Lockerbie: Megrahi's four specialists 'not consulted'

The Mole: Case for an inquiry grows as cancer specialists say they never gave Megrahi only three months to live

Stubborn Oprah won't stop magnificent Franzen

Jonathan Franzen's first book since The Corrections is getting fantastic reviews - but not from Oprah Winfrey

'Model prisoner' Amanda Knox prepares for appeal

Amanda doesn't break down in tears any more, says her jailer. She's confident she'll be out soon

CEO sued for $20m after 'stepping on clerk's breast'

British broker Marcus Bolton accused of 'vile' attack on female trading floor clerk