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Tuesday 11 December 2007

New statistics show one in five babies born in UK last year had a foreign-born mother

One in five babies is born to foreign mother

Immigrants are having more children than British women, fuelling a new "baby boom".

Government crackdown on weak teachers

Ex-CIA spy: We used torture and it worked

Led Zeppelin sales soar after gig success

NEWS

Bombs kill 62 in Algiers

Ten UN staff among dead as suicide blasts hit Algeria.

Schumacher takes over taxi

Trout leap free from pond

SPORT

Champions League

Live: Blogs and updates from all tonight's games.

England made to toil

Zola: Capello the right man

BUSINESS

Fed cuts rates again

Federal Reserve cuts rates to 4.25pc as growth slows.

Chocolate will get pricier

US heading for a recession

TELEGRAPH COMMENT

Richard Siklos: Black authored his own demise

Alan Cochrane: Cameron fires up Union in bitter cold

Andrew O'Hagan: Canoeist makes a mockery of grief

YOUR VIEW

Should we worry about Britain's rising population?

What is the secret of a long and healthy life?

ARTS AND FEATURES

Have they still got it?

David Cheal reviews Led Zeppelin at the O2 arena.

Mick Brown: no need to tour

Your reviews from the O2

Led Zeppelin homepage

Sober side of the season

Christmas and New Year are hellish times for anyone who has a problem with drink, reports Lesley Garner.

Treasures and tea towels

Taking stock of museum shops, Richard Dorment sorts trinkets from trash.

Happy to be ambushed

The joy of radio is that we can be taken by surprise, says Gillian Reynolds.

Delicious double helping

Two performances of Britten's Billy Budd back to back are powerful.

FEATURES

So 2005

Will a goat do? Buying presents to impress involves imagination.

Christmas

ARTS

Two faces

Very different stories about the art market were told at two sales.

Market news

STAGE

Sublime

The greatest Wagner conductor returns to the Royal Opera.

Trailers

TRAVEL

All at sea: the adventure begins

Guy Grieve and his family finally cast off their mooring ropes and set sail on their voyage in the Caribbean.

Guy Grieve's previous column

SCIENCE

Woman about to exercise wearing a cyberspace fitness watch

'I've been tagged'

Melissa Whitworth gets a short, sharp shock as she tries the 'bodybugg' for size.

View from the lab

Heard the one about the blonde who loved cereal? It's no joke says Steve Jones.

TELEGRAPH BLOGS

"The United Kingdom will work only if its people, at least on some level, feel British. If we no longer regard each other as fellow countrymen then, sadly, we'd be better off apart."

Daniel Hannan

Ed Balls for Prime Minister?: Iain Martin, Nothing beats a babka: Sally Peck, Proof Santa doesn't exist: Maddentisit, Growing old: Carlos Cortiglia.

TELEGRAPH TV & TALK

Bali: Adelie penguins among species in danger

EDITOR'S CHOICE

Can John Edwards slay giants in Iowa?

A new face of Britain? Flag poll results

It's time for a museum of British history

Call Yourself British

Led Zep review: 'Then it got better still'

Your reviews

'Mathlete' breaks calculation record