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'Women with toy boys are fuelling demand for IVF'

09.11.09

Spanish fertility centre says the British women it treats are more likely to be significantly older than their partners compared with other nationalities... more

Protect us from abuse, says woman beaten for being fat

19.10.09

Overweight people in London have launched a campaign to make the capital more fat-friendly... more

Not all of us are driven by money

12.10.09

Not everyone works just for financial gain. Unlike City bankers, many of us are driven by factors other than cash, says Philip Delves Broughton... more

Greg Norman stays focused after split with Chris Evert

07.10.09

Greg Norman vows the break-up of his marriage to Chris Evert will not be a distraction to his international team as they prepare to face the United States at golf's Presidents Cup... more

New York smoking ban may be taken outside

16.09.09

New Yorkers face the prospect of a smoking ban in all public parks, in the latest attempt to make the city smoke-free... more

Heathrow Airport writer gets access to all areas

19.08.09

Heathrow Airport�s first writer-in-residence reveals why such a usually dispiriting place can be a great inspiration... more

Tortilla offers fast food with flavour

17.06.09

Tortilla is a burrito bar with healthy, delicious food on the menu. You certainly won't leave feeling hungry.... more

Little mags, big ideas

11.05.09

A niche journal by Francis Ford Coppola is spearheading a new genre of intelligent reading, says Jenny Wilhide... more

To Sur with love

10.05.09

The stretch of California coast which inspired Kerouac and the hippy generation is as stunning as ever, says Janice Blackburn... more

Fly first class then �99 a day to spend in LA

07.04.09

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Turning the tide is a hot issue

20.03.09

Back in 2005, Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger formed a Climate Action Team to help California plan for global warming... more

A new era, star trek, and Mars

06.03.09

As Roy Greenslade noted in Wednesday's Evening Standard, US newspapers are enduring tough, and possibly fatal, times... more

Letter from Silicon Valley: Some of us here are still basking in the glow of President Obama's inauguration speech. We particularly liked the bit where he said: "it has been the risk-takers, the doers, the makers of things...who have carried us up the long, rugged path towards prosperity and freedom."... more

All credit goes to the Crunchies

16.01.09

It's awards season, of course, but here that doesn�t just mean the Golden Globes or the upcoming Oscars. The Valley cares as much, if not more, about the Crunchies... more

Time Warner's $20m bet on search engine

09.12.08

Technology: Media giant Time Warner today announced it is leading a $20 million (�13.4 million) investment in search engine Kosmix... more

Snappers happy at new photo gallery

05.12.08

This is the first look inside the new home of the Photographers' Gallery... more

Shackled and half-naked boy, 17, flees his 'captors'

03.12.08

An American couple has been arrested after a bruised, half-naked boy with a chain around his leg was found claiming he had escaped his captors... more

Roundabout is London's answer to Silicon Valley

30.07.08

San Francisco may have its Silicon Valley for hi-tech companies but now London has its own, very British, internet hot spot - silicon roundabout... more

Becks takes his 'Mini-Me' boys for a run in the Roller... and meets a nice young lady

26.06.08

David and his two youngest children turned heads with their lookalike cropped haircuts as they rolled down Rodeo Drive in the football star's �300,000 Phantom Drophead Coupe.... more

Prison break: Posh and Becks escape to Alcatraz with the kids

23.06.08

They're used to luxury surrounds, but the Beckham children got a education in hard living during a visit to Alcatraz yesterday. ... more

Geri and Emma arrive in US to see Mr Spice get spliced

30.05.08

A beaming Emma Bunton and tanned Geri Halliwell led the latest Spice Girl reunion as they arrived at San Francisco airport ahead of manager Simon Fuller's wedding... more

It's all on the menu

21.04.08

The food at Hibiscus is amazing � inventive and versatile, so the rigid definition of 'style' can be excused, says Mark Bolland.... more

A campaign to talk up tap water - I'll drink to that

26.02.08

Delighted to be able to sign up to this newspaper's campaign to make London restaurants offer their clientele tap water as a matter of course. It's long been difficult for the cynics among us not to imagine that somewhere, deep in the bowels of the establishment, there isn't a bus boy resolutely refilling fancy bottles from a rusty faucet - especially if those bottles have reusable lids and are blazoned with the restaurant's own logo... more