Prime Minister David Cameron is flying home early from Africa to concentrate on the escalating crisis over phone-hacking and police links with the media... more
It will take 20 actors 69 hours in shifts over eight days to recite the entire King James Bible at the Globe - more than spiritual guide, it's a fascinating literary work that was meant to be read aloud... more
It will take 20 actors 69 hours in shifts over eight days to recite the entire King James Bible at the Globe - more than spiritual guide, it's a fascinating literary work that was meant to be read aloud... more
When James Drew-Edwards received a phone call, almost exactly a year ago, telling him that his sister was dead, the composer's thoughts turned, naturally, to music... more
Last year I stayed in a bare, one-roomed hut, as the guest of a family in Ethiopia. They work hard but earn less than 50p a day. The children had nothing but the clothes on their backs... more
Gordon Brown always confused academic ability with a duty to govern and then, in turn, confused this duty with entitlement. Matthew d’Ancona examines what lay behind the Prime Minister’s sudden resignation... more
It is the real inconvenient truth. For all the calls in Copenhagen for more cash to tackle climate change, it was left to the Chinese to state the obvious last week: one of the easiest ways to cut carbon emissions is to have fewer children ... more
The Deal is back. Kraft’s unsolicited £10 billion bid for Cadbury. The merger of T-Mobile and Orange to form Britain’s largest mobile phone operator. Investment bankers are slavering after 18 months of what former senior Tory Alan Duncan might term “living on rations”
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New Star Asset Management, the troubled fund manager founded by John Duffield, has sold its high-profile Heart Of Africa fund to its rival Duet Asset Management for an undisclosed sum... more
Young campaigners from around the world will meet Gordon Brown to urge decisive action by G20 leaders on the global financial crisis, climate change and poverty... more
A former Apprentice contestant is at the centre of a drive to fight the HIV and Aids epidemic in Africa after having a "road to Damascus" moment... more
He hosts a radio show, gives speeches and is writing his autobiography, but however relaxed his new image, former Mayor Ken Livingstone is still very much a political operator... 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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