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Lee Westwood can take the heat but Rory McIlroy wilts after super start

20.11.09
Briton seizes the initiative in race to be the European No1 as rival struggles to maintain his early pace... more

Ross Fisher’s sloppy start leaves a three-way fight to be No1

19.11.09
Englishman’s hopes of pipping McIlroy, Westwood and Kaymer to merit title are fading fast... more

Colombia protests at Chavez war talk

09.11.09
Colombia says it will appeal to the UN Security Council and the Organisation of American States after Venezuela's president Hugo Chavez ordered his army to prepare for war in order to assure peace... more

My regrets, by jailed cocaine king

22.10.09
The former leader of one of Colombia's biggest drug cartels, who was once ranked alongside Osama bin Laden on the FBI's 10 most-wanted list, has been sentenced to 45 years in jail in the US... more

CDs of the week

09.10.09
Brilliant but bonkers: Shakira releases her third album, She Wolf, and its a lyrical treasure trove.... more

Modern-day 'Raffles' who escaped UK prison recaptured

30.09.09
Latest: Modern-day Raffles who targeted top London hotels is arrested in US after Catch Me If You Can-style four years on the run... more

Paraguay qualify for World Cup with impressive win

10.09.09
Paraguay became the 11th nation to make it into the World Cup finals thanks to a convincing 1-0 win over Argentina, whose qualification hopes took a further blow... more

High kicks in Colombia

02.09.09
Reckon you can salsa? Jane Cornwell did, before she tried to cut it on the dance floors of Cali, where being a salsero is a way out of the ghetto... more

Leading shares rally after Mervyn King’s recessionary words

12.08.09
Leading shares rallied from opening falls after the Governor of the Bank of England, Mervyn King, moved to reassure stock market investors that cheap money would be swilling around the economy for sometime to come... more

Sporting Miscellanies

19.06.09
Football: How much of an influence did events in Iran have on the country's football team?... more

Emerald Energy's earnings rise sixfold

16.03.09
Oil and gas explorer Emerald Energy's profits leaped sixfold last year as revenues almost doubled despite the oil price's sharp decline since July... more

Time bandits have hijacked my fridge

30.01.09
There should be a word — do the Germans have one? I bet the Germans have one — to describe the emotion of just having missed delivery of a fridge... more

Foreigners ease sperm donor crisis

12.11.08
London fertility clinics are turning to foreign sperm donors in a bid to beat record shortages, the Evening Standard can reveal... more

Brazil can do without Ronaldinho

26.09.08
Football: Brazil have called up the Manchester City trio of Robinho, Jo and Elano for next month's World Cup qualifying games against Venezuela and Colombia... more

Woman, 50, bludgeoned to death at her sandwich bar

18.09.08
A woman café owner has been bludgeoned to death in her sandwich bar... more

Fear and a frenzy of faith

11.08.08
Peter Eötvös's seventh opera, Love and Other Demons, is a brave undertaking for Glyndebourne and a fine achievement.... more

Compelling show from La-33

09.07.08
La-33 showed off their old-school salsa dura with the sort of telepathic musicality hoped for in a 12-piece salsa orchestra.... more

My Family star's caution over drugs

10.06.08
...despite Met chief's call for celebrity users to face a jury... more

Henry delighted to join French 100 club

04.06.08
Former Arsenal star has spoken of his pride at winning his 100th cap in France's 1-0 Euro 2008 warm-up ... more

Juanes is Colombia's pop prince

03.06.08
The vocal power of the hyperappreciative sold-out crowd at Juanes's Apollo concert almost matched the decibel-heavy PA.... more

Dos Santos set for Spurs

02.06.08
Barcelona forward Giovani Dos Santos looks set to sign for Tottenham, according to the player's father.... more

I'm ditching butch Hillary for gentle Obama

21.04.08
For me, no matter what happens in Pennsylvania, I'm done with Hillary Clinton. I have long felt that either Democratic candidate would suffice as President.... more

TV crew accused of killing lost-tribe children with flu

27.03.08
A British TV director was accused of causing the deaths of four members of an isolated Amazonian tribe by unwittingly introducing the flu virus into their remote village... more

Immigrants sent to the Tower... to become Brits

26.02.08
They came from 16 different countries, each with a different history - but now they all have a common future, as British citizens ... more

CDs of the week

14.09.07
James Blunt returns with some expertly played new material, and Deborah Harry ends a 14-year spell between albums.... more

London's Latin lesson

06.08.07
More than 100,000 people basked in the glorious sunshine and enjoyed the Carnaval Del Pueblo - the biggest Latin American festival in Europe.... more

Ay caramba! Join clubland's Latin craze

13.07.07
This week's club talk focuses on London clubland's love affair with all things Latin and what it means for the average clubber... more

Tate to feature chair and hair artist

05.04.07
A sculptor who uses chairs, tables and human hair as metaphors for warfare has become the eighth contributor to Tate Modern's Turbine Hall.... more

Shakira shakes her hips and sets the night on fire

19.03.07
With a cry of "Arriba London!", a flurry of hair and the first of many thrusts of the hardest working hips in showbusiness, Shakira set about bringing some real Latin fire to town.... more

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