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Swine flu rules Tommy Haas out of indoor event

03.11.09

Leading German tennis player Tommy Haas has had to pull out of the Davidoff Swiss Indoors tennis tournament in Basle after contracting swine flu... more

Luca Cumani's campaigner can cause Cup shock

02.11.09

Connections of Basaltico believe the five-year-old could be the forgotten horse in the Emirates Melbourne Cup... more

Soundcheck: Musicians invading new genres

23.10.09

Pop can no longer contain Sufjan Stevens, whose latest album, The BQE, is a multi-format extravaganza. And now there is a fresh ambition among musicians... more

White out in the wild of Sweden

22.10.09

Sweden’s frozen north is a dramatic, untouched wilderness in which your only companions are polar bears and reindeer, says Kate Eshelby... more

Helicopter raiders drop in for cash depot heist

23.09.09

Armed robbers 'dressed like Ninjas' swooped in by helicopter today for an audacious raid on a cash depot... more

Swine flu teenager 'out of danger'

13.08.09

London schoolgirl being treated for swine flu in a Greek hospital is out of danger, it was revealed... more

Germaine Mason pulls out of World Championships

05.08.09

Olympic high jump silver medallist Germaine Mason today withdrew from the Great Britain team for this month's World Championships in Berlin... more

Ark no longer an empty vessel as the first tenant since 2000 moves in

30.07.09

One of London's most notorious white elephants will finally echo to the sound of life after lying deserted for almost a decade... more

Pirate music website founders jailed

17.04.09

The men behind one of the world’s largest illegal downloading sites have been found guilty of breaking copyright law... more

Best Nordic restaurants in London

26.03.09

Forget Mediterranean, Scandinavian fare is better for your health. Here are some of the best Nordic restaurants in town. ... more

Peculiar allegory in Invasion!

17.03.09

Invasion! is a clever enough idea in theory, but Khemiri isn't a sufficiently strong writer to make this sing dramatically.... more

Peter, Björn and John are sweet and peculiar

06.03.09

Peter Morén, Björn Yttling and John Eriksson are celebrating a decade of beguiling, elegiac but surprisingly rockish whimsy.... more

Let’s have an Olympic legacy like this

17.02.09

London should take inspiration from Stockholm, Amsterdam, or even Dubai if the benefits from 2012 are to amount to more than fantasy... more

Squatters quit Mayfair mews and Park Lane group told to go

28.01.09

A group of artist squatters occupying two Ł15million properties in Park Lane have been ordered to leave by a judge... more

Smith ends 96 years of hurt to claim his gymnastics bronze

18.08.08

Louis Smith became the first Briton in almost a century to win an individual medal in Olympic gymnastics... more

Dougherty closes on Cup

18.08.08

With two weeks left in Europe's Ryder Cup race, Nick Dougherty knows his chances could all come down to fitness... more

Wood set to make bow as professional

30.07.08

Open star Chris Wood will make his professional golf debut at next month's SAS Masters in Stockholm... more

Idowu golden bid is one step closer

23.07.08

In-form Hackney triple jumper is now even more confident of glory in Beijing after injury rules out his main rival... more

Mamma Mia! Stunning Meryl Streep, 59, shows off her plunging neckline at premiere

18.07.08

The 59-year-old actress wore a stunning white dress for the premiere of Mamma Mia!.... more

Is Abba's Agnetha Faltskog finally ready to forgive her bandmates for years of misery?

11.07.08

Although she is now a 58-year-old grandmother, Abba's tortured blonde tells of her 21 year anguish of being in the popular Swedish band ... more

Mamma Mia! Abba reunite for the first time in 22 years for film premiere

04.07.08

Pop supergroup Abba have reunited for the first time in 22 years for the premiere of hit musical Mamma Mia!... more

Strange stories in That Place

27.06.08

Instead of dealing with the familiar and overloading her work with detail, Mitra Tabrizian goes for the bizarre and the stark, says Ben Lewis. ... more

Prisoners of passion

15.05.08

Stockholm, a dynamic two-hander from Frantic Assembly at the Hampstead Theatre, is a valuable new work that is, in every way, bruising.... more

Short, sweet and full of energy

19.03.08

Hair drenched with water and tiptoeing amongst microphone stands, Swedish singer Ida Maria, gives the gig of her life. She is one to watch. ... more

Cuckoos fly over the wrong nest

28.02.08

Bounce's Insane In The Brain is no more than a series of so-so dance routines that could be about anything.... more

Mamma mia, they're still here

09.01.08

After more than 50 years in business the family-run Spaghetti House is not just surviving, it's thriving - with the opening of its 10th restaurant.... more

Students in the spotlight

01.06.07

It's always great to spot an art bargain but there's an abundance of graduate shows in London righ now - and you have only one pair of legs. That's where Free Range might help. ... more

Swedish delight

25.05.07

If this terrific performance from Shout Out Louds and Loney, Dear is anything to go by, effortless command of melody must be genetic in Sweden.... more

Here's how to do it, Britney

02.03.07

Stockholm singer Robin Carlsson could teach Britney Spears a thing or two about how to emerge gracefully from a teenage pop career, says David Smyth.... more

London's cinemas are most expensive in Europe

17.10.06

Londoners pay more than three times the European average to watch a film, research showed today. An adult ticket for the Odeon in Leicester Square costs up to Ł17.50.... more