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Army blamed for Katrina flooding

19.11.09
A federal judge has ruled that the US Army Corps of Engineers' failure to maintain a navigation channel led to some of the massive flooding from Hurricane Katrina in 2005... more

Actors rebuild themselves in Architecting

06.11.09
What do you get if you combine corsets, cabaret and abstract dance routines? Architecting would be the answer... more

Tatsuo Miyajima is keeper of the light fantastic

03.11.09
Tatsuo Miyajima is bringing his vision to the Royal Ballet, he tells Ben Luke.... more

New Orleans is recovering its old spirit

28.10.09
Despite the ravages of Hurricane Katrina four years ago Lindsay Johns finds that New Orleans is well on the path to recovery... more

Why do people hate you? Barack Obama stumped by 10-year-old's unsettling question

16.10.09
Barack Obama was almost lost for words after a 10-year-old boy innocently asked him: "Why do people hate you?"... more

Economy’s health crucial for insurers

08.09.09
The annual meeting of the insurance underwriters, which has just got under way in Monte Carlo, is a bit more subdued, with numbers down on last year, but still surprisingly upbeat given what has happened to the global economy in the past year ... more

Katrina is powerful yet lacks a real sense of urgency

07.09.09
Entering Katrina at The Bargehouse on Oxo Tower Wharf, one expects to be plunged into the hurricane that strafed the Louisiana coast at the end of August 2005... more

Audience to flee floods as South Bank play recreates the horror of Katrina

11.08.09
New theatre show is to recreate the horrors of Hurricane Katrina in a disused Thames-side warehouse... more

Racist emails target Barack Obama

17.06.09
A string of racist emails featuring slurs against Barack Obama have been circulating among the Republican Party, it has been revealed... more

London architect designs symbol of the Obama era

15.04.09
A London architect has won the contract to design one of the world’s most high-profile new building projects... more

Inconvenient truths in Age of Stupid

19.03.09
When all is said and done we get the feeling that we've seen The Age of Stupid all before.... more

Bishop who called Harry Potter satanic quits

16.02.09
A conservative priest whose promotion to bishop has polarised the Catholic Church in Austria has asked Pope Benedict to revoke his appointment because of the uproar it caused... more

Promotion for cleric in gay sin row

02.02.09
An Austrian cleric who said Hurricane Katrina was God's punishment for the homosexual sins of New Orleans has been made a bishop by the Vatican... more

Laura Bush: I was angry about criticism of George

14.01.09
George Bush's wife Laura has revealed for the first time how some of Barack Obama's criticism of her husband had hurt her... more

Insurers facing a legal hurricane

30.12.08
It is tempting to think of the Madoff fraud as one where the victims almost selected themselves, because of their willingness to go into a fund that failed even to have the most basic separation between front and back office, between managing the money and controlling it.... more

Bright spot for the insurers

10.11.08
Investors are missing a trick because they have not factored in the huge business opportunity for those insurance companies still standing brought about by the near-collapse of American Insurance Group... more

The Saints Come Marching in at O2 jazz festival

27.10.08
The Millennium Dome, with its subdivision into pie-chart quadrants, is ideal for a weekend of New Orleans Jazz.... more

Wembley waiting to be bowled over

23.10.08
American Football: American Football fans will flock to Wembley in their thousands to watch the New Orleans Saints take on the San Diego Chargers in a regular league match but a much bigger attraction could be on the way... more

Hurricane highs and lows for the insurers

02.09.08
The oil price ticked up as Hurricane Gustav headed for the oil installations in the Gulf of Mexico. Now it appears to be losing strength and passing through without inflicting anything like the damage we saw in 2005 when Katrina flooded New Orleans, prices seem to be sliding down again... more

Insurers tot up a £5.5 billion bill as Gustav blow itself out

02.09.08
Oil: The oil price plummeted and US shares shot up after Hurricane Gustav passed with no reports of major damage to refineries and platforms... more

Oil price drops on relief as Gustav spares the platforms

01.09.08
The price of oil fell as Hurricane Gustav swept quickly through the Gulf of Mexico's offshore oil platforms without developing into a Hurricane Katrina-sized Category 5 storm... more

Millions flee New Orleans as Gustav bears down

01.09.08
New Orleans is a rain-lashed ghost city, with just a handful of remaining citizens hiding in their homes as they await Hurricane Gustav... more

Gustav keeps oil price on the rise

28.08.08
Oil prices rose for a fourth day in a row as New Orleans braced itself to take a possible hit from Tropical Storm Gustav, now heading for the Gulf of Mexico coast... more

Dolly puts Gulf on storm watch

22.07.08
Gulf of Mexico oil producers are keeping a close watch on Tropical Storm Dolly, which is growing in strength... more

Lloyd's set for biggest profits fall since 2002

17.07.08
Lloyd's insurers are braced for their biggest profits decline since Hurricane Katrina hit in 2002... more

Tracking down the stocks that yield value

08.07.08
CBI boss Richard Lambert said a few weeks ago that one reason companies seemed quite optimistic in surveys might be that smaller businesses tend to finance themselves from retained profits rather than bank loans, and have therefore been insulated so far from the general cutback on credit.... more

Act your age Sharon! The 50-year-old wears an eye-popping dress for date with new toyboy

30.06.08
Sharon Stone, 50, showed off her cleavage for a night on the town with her toy boy. The actress, who was famed for her raunchy role in Basic Instinct, revealed a plunging neckline in a tight black dress.... more

Corn hits high after US floods

16.06.08
The price of corn hit new records as floods damaged crops in the US, the world's largest producer and exporter, increasing fears consumers could be hit by further rises in food costs... more

So why does Brad Pitt have a map of New Orleans tattooed on his back?

13.05.08
It appears Angelina Jolie's love of tattoos is rubbing off on partner Brad Pitt. The 44-year-old unwittingly flashed his latest etching during a day out with his adopted sons Maddox, six; and Pax Thien, four. On first glimpse, it looks like one of Brad and Angelina's many children have been drawing on their famous father's back with a marker pen ... more

Angelina Jolie, Brad Pitt (and the baby bump) muck in with Clinton to clean up New Orleans

18.03.08
Angelina Jolie may be heavily pregnant, but that hasn't stopped her from getting stuck into some manual labour. Jolie and Brad Pitt took time out from Hollywood glamour to take part in charity work for the victims of Hurricane Katrina ... more

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