Attempts to prop up tottering European banks are doomed to fail unless political leaders tackle the region's sovereign debt crisis, ratings agency Moody's has warned... more
Monday night and I am in tour guide mode, marching my friend from the former East Germany through the streets of Hoxton and Clerkenwell to show off the trendier haunts of the capital... more
The Barbican's enormous and excellent survey brings many of its incarnations together, taking us from the earliest photographic experiments and forays into stop-motion techniques to the latest in CGI technology... more
Berlin has always been famous for its unique brand of decadence but with the arrival of a 24-hour club scene, East and West are bonding in a beat-fuelled frenzy like never before. Let the raving begin
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Unknown is fast-paced, competent and thoroughly undistinguished - the sort of movie that tries to give you everything but ends up as nothing more than easy entertainment... more
A man in his forties is being treated in a psychiatric hospital in Germany for stalking Chancellor Angela Merkel with love letters and trying to get into her homes... more
Dali and de Meuron in Madrid, Hollywood glitz and
pre-Columbian sculptures in LA and Norman Foster and truffle fries in the Bowery. Embark on a 21st-century grand tour, say Hannah Nathanson and Pandora Sykes... more
Matt Smith dates London's hottest lingerie model, takes road trips with the Arctic Monkeys and time-travels for the BBC. Not bad for a failed professional footballer from Northampton, says Hermione Eyre... more
One hundred relatives of Polish tourists involved in a bus crash in which 13 died and 29 were injured arrive in Berlin not knowing if their loved ones are among the victims... more
There’s an over-long election limping to its conclusion this week - the Oxford Professor of Poetry - a laureateship but with no daft obligation to write about Kate Middleton or corgis... more
Lucian Freud gives a rare interview about dancing with Greta Garbo, photographing Adolf Hitler, getting into debt with the Krays and being kept waiting by Kate Moss... more
Max Färberböck's film - Anonyma: A Woman In Berlin - is an honourable effort to illustrate a period in post-war German history that remained conveniently shrouded for years
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The Mayor of Tower Hamlets defeated Labour to be elected. Livingstone not only backed him but some of Ken's key players are now at the heart of running the council. Stephen Robinson reports
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