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Scarlett Johansson - My London

28.08.09

Scarlett Johansson loves Westwood and high tea... more

US Supreme Court gets first hispanic judge

07.08.09

America's highest legal authority will have its first Hispanic voice following the confirmation of judge Sonia Sotomayor to the Supreme Court... more

How women are ahead in recession jobs race

03.08.09

Companies forced to make cuts are finding skills particular to women, such as good communication and empathy, are invaluable, says Philip Delves Broughton ... more

Locations get star role in Pinewood’s Ł200m plan

01.06.09

Pinewood Studios today submitted its planning application for a Ł200 million expansion to give film-makers access to one of the biggest selections of ready-made locations in the world ... more

Obama choice for Supreme Court is slated

27.05.09

Republicans criticised Barack Obama today for appointing a “liberal activist” to the Supreme Court... more

WORLD: Plot to blow up American jets and Jews

21.05.09

Four Muslims have been arrested over a plot to shoot down US military aircraft and simultaneously blow up two synagogues in New York... more

All out! Cuts like this can't be fudged by private equity

14.05.09

It is every private-equity firm's nightmare. You buy a boring little company hoping to do the usual, squeeze it for cash and flip it a few years later. And then it turns on you. ... more

Meet the Apprentices MkV

17.03.09

A Tanzanian beauty queen, an award-winning restaurateur and an ex-professional footballer are among the new batch of aspiring tycoons hoping to land a job with Sir Alan Sugar... more

Literary Life

08.10.08

Celebrity sells at an astonishing rate, yet at its heart the UK still loves a book for itself and London is a great champion of literature. These are the people who keep us reading. ... more

Britney goes for elegant sheikh

03.10.08

Britney Spears chose an unusual form of headgear as she flew into LA from New York yesterday. ... more

Britney kids around in the Bronx

02.10.08

A happy and healthy-looking Britney Spears got in a playful mood with some fans as she paid a visit to their school in the Bronx.... more

Has Sarah Jessica Parker removed her famous mole?

16.07.08

Sarah Jessica Parker's refusal to submit to the surgeon's scalpel marked her out in an industry where cosmetic surgery is the norm.... more

US 'king of class actions' jailed for kickbacks scam

03.06.08

Lawyer Melvyn Weiss, the king of class actions with a string of high profile corporate scalps, has been jailed for 30 months in the US.... more

A crude way to get the message

17.04.08

It is Satan, played by Douglas Henshall, as a Gucci-clad, all-knowing lounge lizard, who has the best lines in The Last Days of Judas Iscariot, says Patrick Worthington.... more

Tyson v Holyfield: a freak show but we'd all watch it

29.02.08

Onto this dark and gruesome world, shards of magic dust all too rarely descend to leaven the gloom and give us reason to do what Churchill knew as "keep buggering on". So it is that news emerges of preliminary discussions about the most gloriously demented bout in even boxing's history.... more

Not doubtful enough by half

27.11.07

Arriving from New York garlanded with a Pulitzer Prize and dripping with acclaim, Fiona Mountford was disappointed by Nicolas Kent's lacklustre production of Doubt: A Parable.... more

Please don't call me J-Lo

06.09.07

A disastrous relationship and over-exposure nearly killed Jennifer Lopez's career. Now she is reinventing herself as a Latin movie star.... more

DVDs of the week

28.08.07

Some implausibly attractive scientists bid to relight the sun in Sunshine, and Mr Bean goes on holiday in the DVDs of the week.... more

First Lady

28.08.07

From Grease to the West Wing, Stockard Channing has specialised in playing tough women. Here she explains why she jumped at the chance to perform at the Almeida.... more

Much more than a sporting drama

16.08.07

This reissue of Martin Scorsese's most powerful film, Raging Bull, shows that it is less about boxing than about the downside of masculinity.... more

Coco's sentimentality is a drag

16.08.07

Despite occasional flashes of ballsy bitterness, too many diversions into fluffy-brained sentimentality prove Miss Coco Peru's undoing.... more

Oh, what a drag

13.08.07

As every gag-merchant in town has hot-footed it to Edinburgh, it falls to the talents of drag queen Miss Coco Peru to put bums on seats at the Soho Theatre.... more

Sex and death in Italy

30.07.07

A breathless eroticism pounds through Montemezzi's L'Amore dei tre Re as violently and noisily as a stampede of horses over cobbles, says Fiona Maddocks.... more

Which hotel bar gets your vote?

09.05.07

Help us find London's coolest hotel drinking venue and you could win a £500 tab at the victorious bar.... more

Does betrayal destroy humanity?

12.02.07

Robert De Niro's The Good Shepherd, his second feature as director, is arguably too long and sometimes repetitious, but it remains intriguing throughout, says Derek Malcolm.... more

Critic's choice: Top five gigs

26.01.07

This week's number one star Mika makes a sure-to-be-messy appearance at the Popstarz, The Fleadh Tour 2007 moves indoors and Biffy Clyro top the Kerrang! Tour bill.... more

The day De Niro joined the CIA

04.01.07

A provocative new film by Robert de Niro enters the murky world of espionage. He tells how he met the Taliban - and confronted the ethical dilemma of spying.... more

Giants stand out in noisy crowd

20.12.06

Crowd-pleasing septet Ray Gelato's Giants are battling the office-party roar at Ronnie Scott's this year in the slot gamely filled by George Melly in Christmases past.... more

Diva Blige gets 8 Grammy nods

08.12.06

Mary J Blige has been nominated for a staggering eight Grammy Awards, including best r'n'b album, record and song of the year.... more

Rap prophet is on a mission

19.10.06

The tiny audience at the Spitz greeted the unassuming Emmanuel Jal like their very own rap prophet. But it wasn't the music they were there for, says Jane Cornwell.... more