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More Bon Jovi classics? We're livin' on a prayer

04.11.09

It was the hits from their hair-metal heyday that provided the highlights of Bon Jovi's intimate BBC Radio Theatre gig.... more

Bloomberg spends $100m to buy third term as NYC mayor

04.11.09

Billionaire Michael Bloomberg has narrowly won a third term as New York mayor in a race far closer than many had expected... more

Father 'too fat to commit murder'

29.10.09

A businessman accused of killing his son-in-law claimed he was too fat to be a murderer... more

Steward’s call for inquiry is a pure confection

06.10.09

Comedy lawsuit of the week comes from something called the Steward International Enhanced Index Fund, which is suing Cadbury’s top brass for daring not to embrace a (putative) bid from Kraft Foods ... more

Mother-in-law sues woman comic for making her a joke

26.08.09

A comedian is being sued by her mother-in-law for making her the butt of too many gags. ... more

Barack Obama condemns Lockerbie Bomber's release

21.08.09

President Barack Obama led the US in voicing condemnation over the release of Lockerbie bomber, calling the decision to free al-Megrahi a 'mistake'... more

WORLD: US hacker steals 130 million identities from credit cards

18.08.09

Millions of British credit card holders may have been targeted in one of the largest identity theft cases in history... more

WORLD: Rabbis who ran 'Soprano' syndicate are held by FBI

24.07.09

Dozens of New Jersey politicians, officials and prominent rabbis arrested in FBI swoop on Sopranos-style syndicates... more

Mid-air death pilot was in good health, says widow

19.06.09

An airline pilot who died at the controls in mid-air had no known health problems, his wife has said... more

Jonas Brothers show is virgin on deafening

16.06.09

The breathless ohmygodohmygod brigade just didn't stop screaming at the Jonas Brothers's Wembley Arena gig.... more

Unilever in 'discounts on your mobile' trial

29.05.09

Fancy a pound off your half litre of Ben & Jerry's Cookie Dough ice-cream? Just hand your mobile phone to the cashier and she can scan a unique barcode you have downloaded on to your screen to get your discount ... more

London's old-school diners

15.05.09

We have the lowdown on three of London's old-school diners, including Russell Brand's favourite in Hampstead...... more

Robots on a slow march

13.02.09

A healthy chunk of the population here ended up working in technology thanks to a childhood fascination with all things robotic. So it's surprising to find how little robots have permeated what we like to think of as the Gadget Center of the Universe.... more

Widow of 9/11 is one of 50 killed as plane hits New York town

13.02.09

A September 11 widow was among 50 people killed when a plane crashed into a house in New York State... more

Nick and Norah bring romance to ipod generation

29.01.09

The most original thing about Peter Sollett's Nick and Norah's Infinite Playlist, a film about teenage angst, is its title.... more

Words to beat weapons as warring gangs are summoned to peace talks

21.01.09

London's most violent gang members are to be invited to face-to-face meetings using tactics copied from the Northern Ireland peace process... more

Captain Cool: Darling, I've had an accident

16.01.09

The pilot who crash-landed his plane into the Hudson river called his wife and said: "There's been an accident."... more

Bankruptcy looks better than bailout for US car industry in meltdown

08.12.08

U.S politicians trying to understand the collapse of the "Big Three" automakers could do worse than take a drive along the freeway in New Jersey... more

Bounce goes out of global share markets

06.11.08

The Obama Bounce looks well and truly over as stock markets around the world plunged on growing fears of a prolonged global recession... more

Alistair Cooke body parts gang is jailed

23.10.08

Three men who conspired to plunder corpses and sell body parts, including the corpse of British broadcaster Alistair Cooke, have been jailed in America... more

CDs of the week

12.09.08

Mike Skinner is becoming one of our most poetic chroniclers of urban life, Jonas Brothers are a more wholesome McFly and David Sanborn is back.... more

DVDs of the week

01.07.08

Be Kind Rewind has a lot of heart, Mad Men is a pitch that's hard to refuse and The Other Boleyn Girl is not what you'd expect.... more

D-day for Astra on blockbuster

23.06.08

Drug firm AstraZeneca is due to find out today the fate of its case against generic drug maker Teva Pharmaceutical Industries in the fight to protect its blockbuster drug Seroquel... more

Lehman on trail of Ł3bn after diving into the red

09.06.08

Wall Street bank forced to rush out results and announce Ł3.05 billion fundraising to shore up balance sheet... more

Oh what a night for Valli: Frankie goes to the West End for Four Seasons musical premiere

19.03.08

The stars turned out alongside Four Seasons heartthrob Frankie Valli, at the Prince Edward theatre in Soho to watch the musical based on the group's colourful life, Jersey Boys... more

Frankie goes to the West End...but will he last four seasons?

19.03.08

Broadway triumph Jersey Boys is well-written and a refreshing change from usual rock 'n' roll tribute musicals.... more

Storm hits rail and roads with worse to come

10.03.08

The worst storms of the winter left hundreds of thousands of rail, road and air travellers suffering major disruption today as forecasters warned more is to come... more

Season for a Frankie Valli show

17.10.07

Frankie Valli has announced plans to bring Jersey Boys, the hit Broadway musical about his life, to London next spring.... more

An original riposte

27.09.07

Jeffrey Blitz's film Rocket Science gets confused at times but remains a strikingly original riposte to the usual Hollywood coming-of-age epics.... more

Rock for the serious-minded

06.09.06

Yo La Tengo's loyal fans were treated to some impressive vocals at Bush Hall in west London, but some of the band's new songs were rather slight and not yet mastered for live performance.... more