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Hospitals teach foreign doctors how to rebuild children's faces

09.11.09

Britain's top plastic surgeons are heading a project to help severely disfigured children from around the world... more

Clooney's barmy army in The Men Who Stare At Goats

06.11.09

The Men Who Stare At Goats, taken from Jon Ronson's non-fiction book about the US Army's attempt to use paranormal powers, doesn’t quite cut it.... more

Chelsea barracks developers win race to buy US Embassy

03.11.09

American Embassy building is to be sold to the foreign developers responsible for the Chelsea Barracks scheme... more

US embassy wins listed status

22.10.09

US Embassy in Grosvenor Square has been protected with listed status, it has emerged... more

Third of child sex offenders escape with police caution

23.09.09

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Worry over oil price may fuel a string of knockdown deals

21.07.09

Oil industry fears that the current high price is unsustainable could, along with signs of stress in some investors, spark a run of bargain basement acquisitions ... more

Former soldier tells of why he went to war in Iraq

01.07.09

They are the same age, left university at the same time and their tastes in books and music overlap but there the similarities end. Former soldier Patrick Hennessey tells anti-war protester Richard Godwin why he went to Iraq... more

My recipe for motherhood

10.05.09

As Madonna returns to Malawi to find a new daughter, top London (and Paris) chef Hélčne Darroze reveals how she, too, felt the need to adopt abroad... more

Oil explorer Soco rakes in the cash

10.03.09

Soco International is avoiding the insolvency fears spreading through the exploration sector by reporting cash balances of $303 million (Ł219 million)... more

Terror and glamour in The Baader Meinhof Complex

13.11.08

An account of the German student militants who became cult heroes, in The Baader Meinhof Complex, delivers a lesson for today.... more

Strong show by Ł39m Premier

28.08.08

Premier Oil’s net profits soared almost 250% to Ł38.9 million in the first half and it says all four of its major developments have made strong progress... more

Grinning Glitter is back but still free to go abroad

22.08.08

Gary Glitter is still free to travel abroad despite being put on the sex offenders register for life... more

Gary Glitter flies back to Britain for heart treatment on the NHS

19.08.08

Gary Glitter was released from a Vietnamese prison and is flying back to London to take advantage of free medical treatment on the NHS... more

Simple but powerful piece does justice to the dead

01.08.08

Designing memorials is a fraught business. Emotions run high and the task, of representing tragedy in dumb building materials, is essentially impossible. Think, for example, of the traumas of the Diana Memorial... more

Gary Glitter plans a musical comeback after finishing his jail sentence

24.06.08

Former British glam rocker Gary Glitter, who is serving a jail sentence in Vietnam for molesting two girls, plans to return to singing after being released in August.... more

Prudential adds to Vietnam fund

23.06.08

The Prudential's property arm is raising a second portion of a fund for Vietnam despite the country's economy hitting turbulence... more

Soco makes new gas find in Vietnam

16.06.08

London-listed explorer announced a new gas discovery in the South-east Asian country... more

Painful truth

08.05.08

Winter Soldier was made in 1971 but was not shown publicly in America until recently after being pieced together from a damaged negative.... more

Five to try: best restaurants for noodles

23.04.08

Ramen, beanthread, udon, spaghetti — noodles are a cheap and cheerful option. Here are five restaurants offering tasty dishes.... more

Pricey rice hits East and West

18.04.08

Rice futures surge for a fifth day to a new record, as export restrictions bite and Aussie farmers shift out of the crop... more

Here's why it can only get worse on pensions

10.03.08

It has been the singular achievement of this Government to take the best private-sector occupational pension provision in Europe and, by a mixture of short sightedness and misplaced intervention, virtually to destroy it... more

No Country for Old Men by Cormac McCarthy

22.02.08

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Prosaic scenes of strange beauty

23.10.07

The Genius of Photography is an informative but relatively small exhibition that explores influential images in photographic history.... more

Sienna starts a hippy riot

24.09.07

Grosvenor Square was closed to allow hundreds of extras to take part in filming for Sienna Miller's latest movie.... more

Jagger Jnr proves he can act

31.08.07

James McLure's 1979 black comedy double-bill -Lone Star And Private Wars - descends into farce but boy, can Jagger Jnr act.... more

Jagger's son lights up the stage

29.08.07

James Jagger asks Mick and the family to stay away as he smokes his way to preview night success at Islington's King's Head Theatre.... more

Fit as a Fiddler

30.05.07

There are some simply great tunes and moving performances in this impeccable revival of musical favourite Fiddler on the Roof, says Fiona Mountford.... more

War chronicler turns his focus on men of God

31.01.07

Don McCullin, a rakish, atheist war photographer, says he is just the person to take the pictures of religious leaders going on show at the National Portrait Gallery.... more

Protest that states the obvious

21.12.06

Tate Modern's modestly sized Media Burn brings together eight artists and works all of which use the manipulation of media images or conventions to make political points. ... more

Shadow brings enlightenment

18.12.06

Josh "DJ Shadow" Davis makes music for the head and heart rather than the dancefloor: and his live shows have become revelatory multimedia extravaganzas.... more