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Brooke Mueller heading to Mexican rehab facility

18.07.11
Brooke Mueller is reportedly going to check into a rehab programme which will cure her addictions by giving her a drug that will "rewire" her brain... more

Energy ministry spends £7,000 on away day at wetlands centre

02.03.11
Chris Huhne's energy and climate change department spent more than £7,000 on an away day at the London Wetland Centre, the Standard reveals ... more

Chris Huhne warns against 'car crash summit' at Cancun climate talks

09.12.10
Latest round of United Nations climate talks are reaching 'crunch point' as government ministers from around the world make a final push for progress towards a new deal on tackling global warming... more

Conservative MP set to become first to resign over fees rise

08.12.10
Conservative MP Lee Scott was today poised to become the first government member to resign over the increase in tuition fees... more

City Spy: Why George Osborne cares about Irish

22.11.10
George Osborne was in bullish mood during his trip to Brussels to meet fellow European finance ministers... more

Mexico hotel blast kills seven

15.11.10
Explosion kills five Canadian tourists, including a nine-year-old boy, and two staff at a hotel on Mexico’s Caribbean coast... more

Lord Prescott: Ditch binding agreement on emissions

04.11.10
Negotiators should ditch hopes of a legally binding agreement on reductions in climate change gases and push instead for a voluntary framework at the upcoming Cancun summit, John Prescott said ... more

British Airways passenger numbers creeping up

03.11.10
British Airways gains almost 7% more passengers on its flights compared with October last year... more

Top 10 tropical treats

21.10.10
Kate Simon rounds up what’s hot in the Caribbean, from nature trails to luxury hotels and new flight routes... more

BBC’s £100,000 on Chile rescue leaves it short to cover G20

14.10.10
The BBC is planning to cut its coverage of the G20 and the Oscars after spending more than £100,000 on the rescue in Chile... more

Sexing up the climate figures spells disaster

01.09.10
A globalised world needs a globalised nightmare — and in climate change, we have just such a spectre... more

Mexican police find more drug gang victims after mass grave discovery

08.06.10
Video: Mexican police discover six more bodies of people killed by drug gangs days after 55 corpses were found in an abandoned silver mine... more

South America 'backs Argentina' over Falklands oil

23.02.10
Argentina says it has the support of Latin American leaders for its claim to the Falkland Islands... more

Eva Green's Eden - on holiday in Mexico with the French actress

29.01.10
The sugar-sand beaches and rose-petal foot baths at the Banyan Tree resort in Mexico can bring a smile to the most sultry French actress's face discovers Eva Green ... more

Divinely inspired hijacker's 'bomb' was can of fruit juice

10.09.09
A Bolivian religious fanatic briefly hijacked a plane in Mexico City by claiming a can of juice was a bomb... more

Thomas Cook to be hit by £20m swine flu bill

13.08.09
Swine flu will cost Thomas Cook £20 million this year, the holiday company’s chief executive Manny Fontenla-Novoa predicted ... more

'Half of children suffer swine flu drug side-effects'

31.07.09
More than half of children taking Tamiflu suffer side-effects such as nausea, insomnia and nightmares, researchers said... more

Go Mex, the no-frills way at El Camino

11.06.09
Portobello Road's El Camino is no Wahaca — but as a neighbourhood café it’s a little gem. ... more

When Labour is in power, stock markets fall

05.05.09
Former Warburgs director John Littlewood is pamphleteering for the Right-leaning Centre for Policy Studies. His research shows the London stock market has fallen 26% since Labour came into power in 1997 ... more

London student fighting swine flu ‘in a bad way’

01.05.09
A 22-year-old London man with swine flu was “in a bad way” in hospital... more

Supplies of anti-flu drug Tamiflu to be kept under guard

30.04.09
London was on red alert amid warnings that up to 94,000 could die if a swine flu pandemic strikes... more

Six Londoners feared to have virus are told to stay at home and await test results

29.04.09
Six people from London, including two honeymooners, have been quarantined at home with suspected swine flu... more

Honeymoon couple are first cases in the UK

28.04.09
The newly-wed couple who became the first people in Britain to contract swine flu are responding well to treatment, their relatives said ... more

Pandemic warning as flights are cancelled

27.04.09
Britons are warned to avoid all but essential travel to Mexico as the deadly swine flu virus can no longer be contained... more

Pandemic fears wipe billions off travel shares

27.04.09
Billions of pounds were wiped off the value of travel companies around the world amid growing fears of a swine-flu pandemic... more

Chatroom hoax on fan who thought he was playing away

16.02.09
A married Manchester United supporter drove 400 miles for what he thought was going to be an affair with a woman he had chatted to on the internet - only to discover it was a hoax set up by two Liverpool fans he had met on holiday ... more

Young gun Vela can show his firepower

11.11.08
Football: Arsenal's teenage Mexican striker is ready to make the most of another chance to shine in the Carling Cup... more

Double take! The clean-cut young boyo who became ... Ifans the terrible

16.03.08
It is hard to imagine dishevelled Rhys Ifans without his trademark shabby chic style. But here's the Welsh actor looking, it has to be said, rather clean-cut. No lanky punk-rock appearance, no jangling jewellery and no leather jacket. Instead, the star is almost unrecognisable ... more

A disappointing end to a disappointing summer

03.09.07
With Theo Randall, the ex-head chef at River Café, at the helm, Mark Bolland had high expectations for the InterContinental Hotel's restaurant. He was left thoroughly disappointed.... more


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