Glee on Monday, Gossip Girl on Wednesday, Skins on Thursday. That's my social-life substitute sorted for the next few weeks: watching characters a decade younger than me bonking, boozing and belting out showtunes on their path towards adulthood... more
Godolphin came agonisingly close yet again in Australia's most prestigious race when Crime Scene was narrowly beaten by Shocking in the Melbourne Cup... more
The Governor of the Bank of England made clear that he had not been fully consulted about the Government’s proposals for regulatory reform of the financial sector ... more
Barack Obama’s affair with hedge-fund managers, sparked in happier economic times, is over. A year ago, it was hard to move in Manhattan without hearing a money manager coo over Obama’s brilliance, pragmatism and global perspective. Now these erstwhile fans talk about him as if he were a Central Park mugger
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The sky is a crisp blue, the cherry trees are in blossom and a spring of renewal beckons after a black winter. It is also the time when London's parks, at last, come into their own... more
The four short-listed contenders in the Deutsche Börse Photography Prize are stretching out lazily in the new building of the Photographers' Gallery.... more
Katie Holmes treated daughter Suri, two, to a day out in New York's Central Park on Thursday. The cute twosome looked like a catalogue picture of a family outing as they played on a slide and swing.... more
The American Scene displays a long list of artists whom most of us have never heard of and includes the little-known prints of household names.... more
Pamela Anderson has long held the enviable status of being one of the world's most desirable women. But everyone has bad days, and yesterday she went for a stroll looking uncharacteristically dowdy.... more
For years Madonna proved unflappable in the face of controversy, but yesterday the stress of her latest - and most difficult - personal drama was written all across her face.... more
Madonna has been playing host to late night visits from a New York Yankee player amid mounting rumours her seven-year marriage to Guy Ritchie is on the brink of collapse, an American magazine has claimed.... more
Desperate Housewives star Eva Longoria was pictured yesterday in West Hollywood wearing a T-Shirt that proclaimed: 'I want more privacy!'. In a dig at the Press, Longoria, 33, sported the slogan during a Friday visit to the Toast Bakery Café with husband Tony Parker.... more
With 30,000 runners raring to go the 2008 Flora London Marathon is fast approaching. But you don't have to be in the race to get in on the action.... more
She may be a 37-year-old mother of two but supermodel Claudia Schiffer yesterday showed why she still cuts it in the fashion world. She looked stunning in spats and a beret during a New York photoshoot with Chanel maestro Karl Lagerfeld. The German model appeared lose her composure for a second when she stumbled to the ground. But with Lagerfeld snapping away, it became clear it was all part of the project for the French label... more
An infectiously tranquil representation of temporary escape, Tod Papageorge's photographs exert their magic, dissolving all awareness of the King's Road outside.... more