Soaring numbers of foreign diplomats and embassy staff in London are being arrested - but escape justice because they claim immunity from prosecution... more
Liam Fox set to attend the first day of construction of a new multi-billion pound aircraft carrier which got the go-ahead despite massive cuts in the MOD budget
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Novel triggered by the story of Josef Fritzl, who kept his daughter locked in a cellar for 24 years and fathered her children, has made the shortlist for the £30,000 Orange Prize... more
The King's Speech may be piling up the plaudits and be widely tipped for glory at the Oscars later this month, but it has found one unlikely critic: the American Humane Association... more
Charles Taylor's lawyer stormed out of court today after judges refused to accept a written summary of the former Liberian president's defence case at the end of his war crimes trial... more
Traders' attention was turned stateside as whispers spread that department store group Macy's is on the shopping list of two private equity giants... more
Investors were doing their best to look on the bright side today after the combined losses from Royal Bank of Scotland and British Airways reached £1.79 billion during the first six months of the year ... more
With the FTSE 100 poised to break through the psychologically important 5200 barrier, the overriding issue is one of investor confidence in the rally... more
The flow rate of good news at Tullow hit record levels after the London-listed African explorer says it may have hit the jackpot amid the riches already found in Uganda... more
Stand by for take off at British Airways was the advice Goldman Sachs gave to clients as it added the shares to its influential Conviction Buy list... more
He is famously incapable of relaxing on holiday. So it comes as no surprise that faced with the horrific prospect of a month of leisure time, Gordon Brown wants to do voluntary community work... more
Six months ago, Catherine Kallon was a redundant PA. Today, from her studio flat, her influential fashion website attracts 12,000 hits a day. But success has come at a price... more
Twenty-two London schools are being twinned with their counterparts in Africa, in a scheme run by the charity for which Evening Standard readers raised £171,000... more
The latest bunch of attention-seeking exhibitionists and eccentrics, unveiled on Big Brother last night, look likely to take the show back to its outrageous worst.... more
With just five exhibits, Scratch The Surface appears to do just that, but with further examination you soon realise just how tangled the web supported by the slave trade really was.... more
While Leonardo DiCaprio has become a much better actor since working with Martin Scorsese, Blood Diamond over-simplies the Sierra Leone conflict, says Derek Malcolm.... more
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