Sport News 

Stunning lap secures pole for Hamilton at Spa

For the fifth time this season the British driver will be starting at the front of the grid for the Belgian Grand Prix on Sunday

Another spectacular for Paralympics opening

Transcendence, integration and equality are the themes of another eye-catching display in Beijing's Bird's Nest Stadium

• A great leap forward or backward for China

Murray shows patience with biggest game ahead

British No 1 is happy to play a waiting game as Tropical Storm Hanna threatens to delay his US Open semi-final

Business news 

FTSE 100 sent spiralling towards 5,000

The benchmark index finished its worst week in more than six years with a further 2 per cent slump after a day of gloom

Development agencies to fund housing scheme

Nine agencies will have to channel £300m from regeneration to help fund the Government's rescue scheme

• Rescue package for home buyers 'won't work'

• Borrowers in negative equity to be left out in the cold

Philips changes mood with new product launch

The electronics company is poised to leap into the bedroom with a daring product that it hopes will electrify relationships

Comment 

Can Labour find its self-respect?

Brown's flailing leadership is a national emergency. His party must show it has the stomach to tackle it

• Matthew Parris

Hockey moms beat misogyny at its own game

Sarah Palin has put her children in the spotlight, and that is a dangerous place for a politician's family

• Janice Turner

The sad wreck of our maritime heritage

A changing tide threatens the historic remains of ships that lie all around Britain's coast

• Frank Pope

Life & Style 

The top 50 lifestyle icons

The top fifty people who influence the way we eat, exercise and think about ourselves

Curse of the schoolgates

Mums make an average of eight new friendships when they have kids but form them in haste and you'll repent at leisure

Turning cancer cells into a work of art

One scientist is turning the images of nuclei, chromosomes and cell division she sees in her microscope into art

Arts & Entertainment 

How Mark Rothko became an Anglophile

How a 1959 visit to England led to the legend of the New York art scene donating nine precious paintings to the nation

Kelly Reilly takes revenge in Eden Lake

She's known as a theatrical actress but Kelly Reilly gets nasty in her horror film debut. Cross her at your peril

The meteoric rise of actress Hayley Atwell

From Woody via The Duchess to Brideshead Revisited, the actress is rocketing to stardom three years after drama school