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Atiha Sen Gupta is the playwright for today

20.10.09
21-year-old Atiha Sen Gupta is one of a new generation of writers who are putting the most vexed contemporary issues centre stage.... more

Gordon Brown to meet top US military commander

21.08.09
US military leader General David Petraeus will meet Prime Minister Gordon Brown today, a Downing Street spokesman confirmed... more

Spyware woes for BlackBerry in UAE

30.07.09
Mobile phone users are accustomed to rogue emails and text messages, claiming to be from their phone company, but actually containing nasty software from a nefarious third party. What they’re not so used to is getting nasty stuff from the phone company itself.. ... more

Teenager in the frame for photography award

20.08.08
This is one of the highlights of the Wildlife Photographer of the Year competition... more

Comment: Kremlin is exploiting uncertainty in the West

11.08.08
Georgia's bloody battle with Russia was a tragic blunder by an inexperienced leadership in Tbilisi: but none the less for that, a stark warning to Russia's neighbours and the West... more

Solzhenitsyn, tortured poet of Stalin's Gulag

04.08.08
Russia is in mourning today following the death of Nobel prize-winning author Alexander Solzhenitsyn, who helped to free the Russian people from Soviet tyranny ... more

In the grip of twin terrors

18.05.07
Tom Morton-Smith's debut play - Salt Meets Wound - is full of ambition, good acting and good old-fashinoned gripping drama.... more

Critic's choice: Top 5 exhibitions

22.02.07
An exhibition spotlighting the beginning to Andy Warhol's career is among the must-see shows and it's your last chance to see Max Penson's photography at Somerset House.... more

Critic's Choice: Top 5 exhibitions

01.02.07
A gangly palm tree fills the White Cube's West End space, At Home is hard to resist and The Wallace Collection celebrates Francesco Xanto Avelli.... more

Critic's choice: top 5 exhibitions

11.01.07
The last chance to see Stubbs at Tate Britain, plus 13th century Indian bronzes and Italian wartime satire are among Hephzibah Anderson's exhibition picks.... more

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