After Glastonbury sales of Janelle Monáe's album soared 5,000 per cent. Here the tuxedo-wearing pop sensation tells Jasmine Gardner how she has gone 'from wonderground to mainland'... more
Police in Kansas City are treating the death of an 18-month-old boy who drowned in a bathtub as a potential homicide after a five-year-old girl told social workers that she held him under the water to stop his crying... more
Rescue crews dug through piles of splintered houses and crushed cars in a search for more victims of a half-mile-wide tornado that killed at least 116 in Missouri... more
Diamond earrings that were the 'something borrowed' worn by Lady Diana Spencer when she married Prince Charles are to make a reappearance for the wedding of Prince William and Kate Middleton... more
As the sequel to 1987’s Wall Street launches, John Lanchester says new superfast forms of computer trading pose far more of a risk to financial markets than the likes of Gordon Gekko... more
With jazz megastars becoming ever more scarce, featuring two of them in one supergroup was a masterstroke for London Jazz Festival's closing night.... more
Karrin Allyson is a bit special. Not only is her voice warm, husky-edged and in tune, but her devotion to the jazz tradition, sets her apart from most other children of the Seventies.... more
A London band has performed a record-breaking number of gigs in a day. Buck Brothers raced between 28 venues in the capital to break the record for most performances in 12 hours.... more
Sound check: German industrial metal band Rammstein literally play with fire in their live performances - and now they are about to unleash their singeing spectacle on London. Watch out for your eyebrows
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