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

Murray shows patience with biggest game ahead

British No 1 is happy to play a waiting game Click on link below to follow the match live

• Rafa Nadal blog

• Jankovic displays substance and style

Another spectacular for Paralympics opening

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

Business news 

Record bail-out in US

The US Treasury will announce a rescue of Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac in what is likely to be the biggest ever financial bail-out

Hutton plans for 1m ‘green collar’ jobs

Initiative aims to halt the shrinking of Britain’s manufacturing base and the economy’s reliance on the services sector

• Hutton coaxes industry back to health

• Ministers plan help for manufacturers

MFI cooks up merger with kitchens rival

A deal with Homeform would create a combined company with 360 stores, employing more than 5,000 people nationwide

Comment 

Brown’s fallen into Salmond’s tax trap

In local taxation Alex Salmond has found the perfect subject to stoke Scottish resentment

• Michael Portillo

Cynical choice leaves McCain in shreds

In choosing a woman he doesn’t know or understand John McCain reveals a dishonourable lust for office

• Minette Marrin

What a relief, boom has turned to bust

Recession, falling house prices and fuel costs will provide a welcome break from our excessive spending habits

• India Knight

Life & Style 

Eat my dust, Obi-Wan

When Ewan McGregor, the Star Wars actor, rode a motorbike across Africa, he had back-up, unlike the young Briton Tom Smith, who tells of crashes, wild animals and dodgy diets

What a roasting

Can you imagine learning to cook in the galley kitchen of a transatlantic sailboat? No? Well, read on...

Renovating a mill in rural France

How a derelict water mill in southwest France put the translator on the trail of a resistance heroine

Arts & Entertainment 

Alfred Hitchcock: showman or psycho?

Novelist Jonathan Coe believes the director’s true genius, revealed without words, shows how we live in a world of pain

Damien Hirst says greed is good for artists

Next week, Hirst becomes the first artist to sell brand-new work at auction. Could this be the end of the gallery?

Jonas Brothers: No sex, no drugs, just rock’n’roll

They’re clean-cut Christian virgins with absurdly perfect hair - meet Jonas Brothers, America’s new tween-pop sensations