Is Britain broken or great? Yes, I'm confused too. In a very different tone to his dire warnings about the global economy, David Cameron has found time this week to launch a new tourism drive under the brand Great Britain... more
The Dominique Strauss-Kahn affair - the chambermaid versus the French financier - always looked like a clash of cultures, French versus American... more
The maid who accused Dominique Strauss-Kahn of sexually assaulting her in a Manhattan hotel room has broken her silence, saying: 'I want him to go to jail'... more
Ken Livingstone accused of showing 'a lack of judgment' after it emerged he has been paid thousands of pounds to front a programme on Iranian state television... more
London-based businessman Bill Browder has vowed to avenge the death of the lawyer who helped him uncover a '$230 million tax fraud' — wherever it leads... more
Just when you thought the leaders’ debates would be rubbish, along comes Britain’s first-ever televised version of the US presidential debates and we’re blown away... more
Media Analysis: Magazine publishers are preparing their soundbites and statistics for their ritual showdown when six-monthly circulation figures are unveiled... more
According to C4’s Secret Millionaire in November 2007, Chek Whyte was “one of the richest men in England”. To ram home the message, we were shown a yacht and a manor house, which contained leather-bound books bought “by the yard” for decoration... more
Facing the greatest crisis they have ever experienced, American newspaper editors have cancelled their annual convention for the first time since the Second World War... more
Former RBS boss Sir Fred Goodwin has enjoyed - and latterly endured - a variety of nicknames and epithets over the years, charting precisely his rise and fall from grace... more
The President-elect is known to have been deeply hurt by the treatment of his relative during Kenya’s Mau Mau rebellion. It could yet impact on the UK’s ‘special relationship’ with the US... more
Economy: Further massive injections of capital may be necessary to save the global banking system from collapse, US Federal Reserve chairman Ben Bernanke warned... more
The Prime Minister, Gordon Brown, tellingly remarked in the House of Commons this week of his role in the economic downturn: "Not only have we saved the world ...". Unfortunately, the world begs to differ, or at least, the German finance minister does... more
Sarah Palin faced a bitter backlash from John McCain's allies as it emerged that Republican Party lawyers were heading to Alaska to retrieve her $150,000 (£95,000) campaign clothes... more
It's four years since we last saw them all. Now the Sex And The City girls are back on the big screen. Here they reveal how their own lives - and loves - have changed
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An industry employing hundreds has grown up around the Harry Potter films. Mike Goodridge went to watch the crew at work - and talk to the fifth film's star.... more
Nearly £200 million of art went under the hammer at Christie's in New York with an Andy Warhol painting of a car crash selling for a record £36.04 million.... more
On Monday Don Johnson takes the lead in the West End production of Guys and Dolls. The fallen idol of Miami Vice says he has cleaned up his act - and isn't just here for the money.... more
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