The Dominique Strauss-Kahn affair - the chambermaid versus the French financier - always looked like a clash of cultures, French versus American... more
ABC monthly circulation figures for paid-for newspapers, released on Friday, are set to be tough. The total market for existing titles is expected to be down around 5.5% in May against a year earlier - with little bounce from the Royal Wedding and death of Osama bin Laden... more
The speaker of Sudan's parliament, Ahmed Ibrahim Al-Tahir, may not have spoken for the entire Arab world when he condemned the US for killing Osama bin Laden... more
The frock frights were in short supply as many Oscars A-listers played it safe - but those who dared to innovate did it with style, says Laura Craik... more
Bill Clinton's former secretary of defence, William Cohen, said on CNN at the height of the demonstrations in Egypt that "it started with Iraq". This triumphalism dovetails neatly with the neo-conservative claim that, by invading Iraq in 2003, the US would usher in an era of democracy in the Arab world. There's only one problem with this. It isn't true... more
Tens of thousands of Egyptians poured into Cairo's main square today for "Departure Friday" in another attempt to force President Hosni Mubarak from power... more
In certain US airports, new enhanced scanning technology is in operation, giving a rather more vivid body image than has been hitherto possible... more
Last-minute preparations were being made for what is being billed in the US as the 'wedding of the decade', between Chelsea Clinton and her boyfriend Marc Mezvinksy... more
London production company behind Who Wants to be a Millionaire? may sue Hollywood talent agency William Morris over the deal that brought the quiz show to US viewers in 1999... more
Jasper Carrott stands to land a second multi-million-pound windfall from his investment in the Who Wants To Be A Millionaire? quiz show, following a landmark US legal case... more
One of the stars of Desperate Housewives, Nicollette Sheridan, is suing the show’s creator, claiming he hit her across the head and face on set... more
An American housewife who called herself “Jihad Jane” has been named as part of a plot to kill a Swedish cartoonist who satirised the prophet Mohammed... more
Recession? What recession? There were no empty seats at the British Council for Offices annual black tie shindig which filled the Great Room of the Grosvenor House to bursting... more
America's most senior military chief has admitted that the war in Afghanistan is 'deteriorating' and warned that it could take up to 18 months to turn it around... more
Is it all over for Liechtenstein? Hit by the sale of stolen bank account details to foreign investigative authorities, the tiny tax haven has revealed the fall-put from this major breach in its traditional wall of secrecy... more
Heather Mills was spotted in New York yesterday sporting precarious platform heels - despite the fact that the ex-wife of Paul McCartney has an artificial leg.... more
Bloodied and dishevelled, this is tough guy actor Harvey Keitel as Detective Gene Hunt in the U.S. remake of the award-winning series, Life On Mars.... more
During a speech that was supposed to champion the cause of minority groups, broadcaster Martin Bashir stunned his audience by referring to them as 'Asian babes'.... more
If her character is anything to go by, Ugly Betty star America Ferrera is doomed when it comes to finding love. But offscreen it seems she has rather more luck. After denying engagement rumours in the past, America, whose long-term boyfriend is film-maker Ryan Piers Williams, appears to have further fuelled speculation of marriage... more
Desperate Housewife Eva Longoria has taken a well-deserved break to spend some time in the sun and on the water with basketball player husband Tony Parker. The diminutive star, 32, lounged around a villa in Los Cabos in Mexico in a tiny t-shirt, spangly pink bikini bottoms and a baseball cap - a million miles away from her usual red-carpet style... more
Sound check: German industrial metal band Rammstein literally play with fire in their live performances - and now they are about to unleash their singeing spectacle on London. Watch out for your eyebrows
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