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Europe needs Blair’s style of leadership says Mandelson

06.11.09
Lord Mandelson launches last-ditch push for Tony Blair to become EU President as he warns that Brussels needs strong 'leadership' to compete on the global stage... more

British military tells Obama not to dither as UN evacuates 600 workers

05.11.09
Latest: British military chiefs urged President Obama not to dither over Afghanistan as the allied death toll continues to rise... more

America offers Burma a deal on sanctions

05.11.09
A senior US diplomat said today Washington will not lift its sanctions on Burma unless its ruling generals make concrete progress toward democratic reform... more

Lovells ready to merge with top US law firm

29.10.09
City law firm Lovells is reportedly on the verge of merging with top US law firm Hogan & Hartson ... more

Tribuna is grand as the grand tour

29.10.09
Buckingham Palace visitors won't be able to tear themselves away from Johan Zoffany’s Tribuna of the Uffizi.... more

The Blairites are back - and they want to run Europe

28.10.09
Will he, won't he? Rarely has there been such a fuss over a job without the main candidate having even said he wants it... more

The scariest thing about Halloween

27.10.09
If there's one thing more baffling than seeing the customs of your youth dying before your eyes, it's seeing them resurrected, Night of the Living Dead style, in an unrecognisable form... more

Foreign recovery could be a tonic for UK’s sick economy

27.10.09
Economics analysis: The Government has long boasted that Britain is better placed to deal with the global recession than other major nations... more

UK 'must help forge strong European foreign policy'

26.10.09
Britain must take a lead in developing a strong European foreign policy if it is to retain its influence around the world, Foreign Secretary David Miliband warned... more

Merrill still tells its bosses to use private jets

21.10.09
Bailed out companies and banks in the US are adopting very different rules on how they should behave having taken taxpayers’ money, Neil Barofsky, the overseer of recipients of $700 billion (£426.1 billion) of government money reported ... more

All the fun without the fair

15.10.09
If being crushed inside the Frieze tent makes you hyperventilate, don't despair - some of the best one-off shows are in other parts of town... more

Arnold Schwarzenegger's wife 'breaks driving law' he backed

14.10.09
Arnold Schwarzenegger has promised to terminate his wife using her mobile phone while driving after she was caught apparently breaking a law.... more

Super Cooper: Dominic Cooper's Hollywood education

09.10.09
Dominic Cooper on his teenage cross-dressing, the dangers of dancing at the Oscars and that scandalous rehearsal-room romp.... more

US bankers to lose cash salary

06.10.09
Top bankers at some of London’s major American finance houses are set to have the cash element of their pay slashed ... more

US economy clicks with the Google effect

02.10.09
It was Google’s 11th birthday this week and to celebrate, the ubiquitous search engine company misspelled its name as Googlle on its home page. The double “l” was supposed to look like the number eleven... more

‘Hundreds’ of British troops likely to die in US Afghan surge

28.09.09
Military chiefs are prepared for 'scores, if not hundreds' more British soldiers to die in a new troop surge to win the Afghan war... more

The big draw: Old Masters v Turner at Tate

21.09.09
World's greatest art collections have lent works not seen in Britain for decades as part of a blockbuster show highlighting JMW Turner's debt to the Old Masters... more

Dave disappoints at Blenheim Palace

21.09.09
Some of the biggest names in corporate life were at Blenheim Palace in Oxfordshire on Friday night for the closing black-tie banquet at the annual Oxford Analytica conference, a big pow-wow on global politics and business... more

Obama abandons 'Star Wars' shield on Russian border

17.09.09
America will ditch plans to build a 'Star Wars' missile defence system in eastern Europe which put it at loggerheads with Russia... more

Fans arrive at 4am to get hands on Dan Brown book

15.09.09
Fans of Da Vinci Code novelist Dan Brown queued up to buy a signed copy of his long-awaited new book outside a London store today... more

Terror cell jailed for 100 years over airliner bombs plot

14.09.09
Airliner bomb plotters jailed for life for planning what judge called an atrocity comparable with the September 11 attacks... more

It is still right for us to be in Afghanistan

11.09.09
Eight years on from the attacks on New York and Washington of 11 September, 2001, experts say al Qaeda has been greatly weakened... more

Why Obama needs to find his fairway to heaven

10.09.09
The final and decisive round of the PGA Championship last month unfolded in a manner few had predicted... more

Gordon Brown demands exit timetable in return for 2,000 more troops

10.09.09
Gordon Brown prepares to send more troops to Afghanistan if other countries agree to increase their deployments... more

Glyndebourne family to sell Old Master for £10 million

09.09.09
One of the most significant Old Master paintings is to be put up for sale in a boost to the British art market... more

Larry Coryell's dream team plays brilliantly

10.06.08
A journalism graduate, Larry Coryell is one of the few jazz stars who could write his own reviews and possibly sell them.... more

CDs of the week

30.05.08
Paul Weller has started taking chances again, The Zutons are in it for the long haul and Buika makes an impression.... more

Raucous night of hobo blues

25.01.08
Heavily bearded and with a tractor driver's cap, Seasick Steve looks like no other star around, yet a star is exactly what he is.... more

Off the record

25.01.08
David Smyth discusses Juno, the Oscar-nominated comedy that has a soundtrack that deserves an award itself.... more

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