The Pierces, sweet-voiced sisters from Alabama, have a new sound that will propel them to stardom — and over the page are five other names to watch out for next year... more
The governor of California Arnold Schwarzenegger scrapped plans for more coastal drilling after seeing pictures of the oil slick off Mississippi... more
Motor sport: Eight fans were injured by debris when Carl Edwards’s car took off and slammed into the safety fence on the final lap in the Nascar race at the Talladega Superspeedway in Alabama... more
A US Navy warship arrived off the coast of Somalia as negotiations began to rescue the captain of an American cargo ship who was seized by Somali pirates... more
A gunman shot dead 10 people, including a one-year-old baby, when he went on a bloody rampage through two small rural towns in the deep south of America... more
A man accused of throwing his four children to their deaths from an Alabama bridge unexpectedly pleaded guilty and told a judge he wants to be executed... more
A pilot wanted on financial fraud charges parachuted out of his plane over the US and allowed the aircraft to crash in an apparent attempt to fake his death... more
If this Carling Cup derby was a family affair, with brothers-in-law Harry Redknapp and Frank Lampard the Elder joined in fraternal combat, it was one of those sedate bashes during which you're driven mad by the suspicion that there's a far livelier party you'd rather be at down the road... more
The script for Honeydripper is a little stagey, and the result is a loving slice of alternative Americana that finally fails to engage as a film.... more
Altoist-rapper Soweto Kinch and US trumpeter Abram Wilson topped the international jazz festival with music from their imposing new Dune albums. ... more
The V&A hosts a free art party with DJ Spoony providing the tunes, Night of the Vaguely Dead offers the usual burlesquery and Buttoned Down Disco celebrates its fourth birthday.... more
Self-styled cowboys of Romford, Ragmop, bring their sweltering soup of funk-licked swampy twang and back-porch soul to Leytonstone High Road, and it's set to be a barnstorming evening.... 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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