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David Cameron must breathe new life into the Coalition

25.07.11
The Prime Minister needs to review his policies and reshuffle the ministers charged with delivering them... more

Thank you, Harry, for giving us football fans the most incredible and unforgettable time

14.04.11
All week this was jocularly referred to as the 5-0 game. The impossible task. Escape from the anacondine death grip Real Madrid curled around Spurs in the Bernabeu would have constituted the greatest act of daring and heroism since Jack Sheppard busted out of Newgate wearing a big floaty dress and leg manacles... more

Andreas Panayiotou: Life is like monopoly, now I buy hotels

12.08.10
The age of austerity seems to mean little to Andreas Panayiotou: he’s investing millions in a new Waldorf hotel, as he tells Ross Lydall... more

Magical sound of jaws hitting the floor as Penn & Teller come to London

15.07.10
Move over Derren Brown. Budge up Paul Daniels. Veteran American magicians Penn & Teller are back to bedazzle the UK for five nights.... more

Coney Island fairground strongman killed crossing road

12.01.10
Fairground strongman Joe Rollino, aged 104, dies in a road accident in Brooklyn... more

The best books of the year

19.11.09
Our reviewers name the titles that have meant the most to them over the past 12 months... more

Morgan Stanley backing Barclays after its Houdini act impresses

11.08.09
Some City brokers still have issues about Barclays and the apparent ease with which it has escaped the fallout from the banking meltdown which engulfed its rivals... more

Regina Spektor is charmingly bonkers

30.06.09
Regina Spektor — anti-folk heroine, Russian émigré and all-round oddball — headlined the first night of the Serpentine Sessions.... more

Dignified in defeat, the beauty of Barcelona softened hardest heart in football

28.05.09
Football: As a contest, this was a wretched anti-climax. As an exhibition of football, it was a joy to behold... more

How Britain blew its chance with the Muslim world

21.05.09
In March, just before President Obama's visit to London, the US embassy called my office at the Al Jazeera English bureau in London... more

Sound check: David Byrne plays a building

15.05.09
A wacky sound installation created by the Talking Heads frontman David Byrne will turn the Roundhouse into an instrument that anyone can play.... more

Jermaine Jenas has got his bite back thanks to Harry's Houdini act

31.10.08
Spurs star still reliving the epic 4-4 derby draw as Redknapp brings back the feelgood factor... more

Houdini comes a cropper in Death Defying Acts

07.08.08
Guy Pearce and Catherine Zeta-Jones star in Death Defying Acts. It might have turned out well if the two had dovetailed more neatly together.... more

Murray's facing a brutal reality

02.07.08
The pumped-up British No1 will have to play the game of his life to combat the power of the Spanish master Nadal.... more

Britain HAS Talent ... it's just finding it that's the hard bit

12.04.08
There's no doubt Britain's Got Talent, which returns tonight, can be very funny. It can also be humiliating and utterly ridiculous. Here, one of its judges describes how the contenders were chosen... more

Rescued but at a cost

26.03.08
One of SE10’s few good restaurants - The Spread Eagle- has been saved. But many of the locals will still be dismayed.... more

'I'm sexier than ever,' says Zeta-Jones - but her husband looks ready for the plastic surgeon again

10.03.08
She may be 38, but Catherine Zeta-Jones says she has yet to hit her peak when it comes to sex appeal. The actress, who showed off her car-crash curves in a series of stylish outfits while on a promotional visit to Australia, insists her best is yet to come ... more

Park Avenue princess: Catherine Zeta-Jones makes a return to classic glamour

07.03.08
She may think she's too old to play nude scenes, but actress Catherine Zeta-Jones can clearly show the young starlets a thing or too about style. The glamorous Welsh-born star showed off her classic Park Avenue princess style at the opening of Elizabeth Arden's new flagship store on ritzy Fifth Avenue, New York ... more

Belly-dancing Catherine Zeta-Jones's mesmerising turn in new Houdini film

12.02.08
Catherine Zeta-Jones has cast her magic over a new film based on famous escape artist Harry Houdini. The actress, who dons a sheer, belly-baring outfit in one scene, plays a psychic who has an affair with the magician in the upcoming 1920s biopic Death Defying Acts... more

Hip-hop Houdini

04.10.07
Dynamo has been called Bradford's answer to David Blaine and if he improves his banter, could really generate some electricity.... more

Hollywood's new royalty

16.01.07
After the Golden Globe successes and record growth in the British film industry, we name our top 50 major players.... more


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