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The Sunday Times Children of Iraq Christmas Appeal

How the story began: Shams Kareem

The story of a little girl blinded by a bomb in Iraq sparked flood of donations from Sunday Times readers, changing her life

Christmas Appeal: How you can help the children of Iraq

Hussein is among more than 8,000 have been disfigured in the conflict in Iraq, but could benefit from life-changing treatment at Amman hospital

Appeal: How you can help the children of Iraq

Abdullah, 9, is learning to walk and talk again after a bomb exploded in his face. You can give hope to thousands like him

Experienced canoeist died in river

Flood victims: Chris Wheeler died after becoming trapped under a tree as police hunt for woman swept into river

Second conjoined twin wakes with a raspberry

Krishna, the second conjoined twin, has woken up and blown the signature raspberry her guardian has been waiting for

Speaker’s wife lost job over phantom degree

John Bercow's wife was dismissed from a City PR firm after claims she he had misled the them about having a degree from Oxford

Peer pays £1.5m for double VC

Billionaire Lord Ashcroft paid the record-breaking price for the medals awarded to Captain Noel Chavasse in 1916

Armchair army to save rainforest

A conservation group led by Johan Eliasch is launching an appeal to recruit 100,000 green heroes to protect trees in the Amazon

Cheques to be bounced into history

Consumer groups and small businesses are angered by a plan by British banks to halt the use of cheques by 2018

First female helicopter crew takes on Taliban

The crew includes Flight-Lieutenant Michelle Goodman, 32, from Bristol, the first woman to win the Distinguished Flying Cross

Finders of huge Saxon hoard to net £3m

The gold and silver artefacts are worth double the amount of the most expensive ancient treasure previously found in Britain

Bank customers in line for £6bn refund

Supreme Court will rule on whether the Office of Fair Trading can investigate the legality of unauthorised overdraft charges

‘Street traders’ to net millions

Editors of The Sunday Times Rich say 10 of Britain’s richest started out on market stalls and are now worth a combined £4.8bn

Life sentences sought for Meredith’s killers

Prosecutor says that that DNA and other evidence linking the accused to the crime was 'irrefutable and well corroborated'

Tory tells of communist past as Eric the Red

Eric Pickles has revealed for the first time his passion for Leon Trotsky and Karl Marx as a teenager growing up in Yorkshire

Foreigners oust old county set

Wealthy Russians, Chinese and Indian buyers are increasingly displacing traditional owners of retreats in the home counties

UK envoys called back to calm Muslim hotspots

At 'outreach' meetings, Muslims can talk to the diplomats directly about British foreign policy in Iraq and Afghanistan

Straw pledges action to end libel tourism

Justice secretary says the large legal fees involved in defamation cases in English courts are jeopardising freedom of speech

Kevin Halligen: a man on the run

The security consultant who worked with the McCanns has fooled those on both sides of the Atlantic with charm and trickery