Once they trained together every day, counting reps and comparing butts. These days, Madonna is waging the war of the workouts with her old gym buddies Gwyneth Paltrow and Tracy Anderson. Michael Kirkham plays referee... more
Market round-up: Artificial hip maker Smith & Nephew catches the lurgies from an American rival, as investors fret that the orthopedics market is still on its sick bed... more
Ice clings to trees in Chicago along Lake Michigan, while more than 100 drivers who were trapped in their cars for up to 12 hours in minus 11C temperatures were rescued in Indiana... more
One of the (many) contradictions to arise out of Tony Blair’s book A Journey is why, in 13 years, did nobody ever point out that Bank of England independence was not Gordon Brown’s idea as everyone was led to believe but Blair's... more
A pilot wanted on financial fraud charges parachuted out of his plane over the US and allowed the aircraft to crash in an apparent attempt to fake his death... more
Never mind the economic damage being wrought by the financial crisis, the havoc it is visiting on popular English usage is just as disorienting... more
You know exactly what's going to happen at any given minute in Make It Happen; Darren Grant's film about Lauryn, a small-town girl from Indiana.... more
High drama at Christie's in London sent the largest Monet Waterlilies ever sold to an astonishing £40.1 million - a record price for the artist... more
Hollywood director Sydney Pollack, who won a pair of Academy Awards for the epic romance Out Of Africa and acted in films such as Tootsie and Michael Clayton, died on Monday after a battle with cancer.
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The new Indiana Jones film looks set to be a box-office smash if its premiere is anything to go by but what do the critics really think? Experts weight in on the new release.... more
Steev Buscemi’s portrait of working-class life is not exactly full of the joys of spring. But Lonesome Jim is worth seeing for a genuine attempt at some sort of dire truth.... more
Lisa Verrico applauds Murder By Death, a US band that dares to look different and whose mournful guitars evoke a curious, spooky, lawless life.... more
The Complete Depeche Mode goes on sale, hard-rocking Glaswegians Biffy Clyro release an early taster of their revitalised sound and Nick Cave returns to his garage rock roots.... more
Restaurant group Kobe Jones, which specialises in Japanese-Californian food, has outlets in Sydney and Melbourne and now they're introducing some innovations to London.... more
Marina O'Loughlin hasn't come across a restaurant so determined to ward off trade as Kobe Jones and, as she discovered, it's a downright contrary place.... 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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