Skipper denies trying to invoke spirit of one of the most controversial Ryder Cups, by inviting a military veteran to address current American team... more
Seduced by the fictional charms of a wasp-waisted temptress, Daisy Prince heads to South Carolina for mint juleps, Spanish moss and a close encounter with dolphins... more
Billionaire former eBay boss Meg Whitman could be California’s first woman governor after winning the Republican nomination for November’s mid-term elections in America... more
LCD Soundsystem 's This Is Happening pushes no boundaries but it chugs along merrily enough and takes diversions into Lil Louis-style hypnotic minimalism.... more
Among the acres of adulation about David Gold and David Sullivan “rescuing” West Ham United, there has been little mention of the means by which they gained their fortunes... more
Cape Town Opera, about to make its London debut, has found new resonance in Gershwin's great love story by setting it in the townships where many of its company live.... more
London will never defeat the scourge of teenage gang killings until it beats poverty, American civil rights campaigner the Rev Jesse Jackson said... more
Barack Obama threw a Super Bowl party in the White House as he tried to woo Republicans who have vowed to oppose his $825billion plan to revive the US economy... more
Whatever problems may lie ahead for Barack Obama, his victory is an inspiring example of the can-do spirit that pervades the world’s most diverse nation... more
Matthew Norman lets fly at penalty shoot-outs, questions Kevin Keegan's motives when it comes to Joey Barton, and wishes the jinxed Paula Radcliffe luck for London 2012... more
Crack cocaine, the drug of the backstreets, is not something one would normally associate with Hans Kristian Rausing and his American heiress wife... more
Trevor Nunn has triumphantly rescued George Gershwin's famous black folk opera Porgy And Bess, reconceiving it as a musical for the people, says Nicholas de Jongh.... more
Exclusive: After high-profile allegations this season, Charlton's manager is pleased the issue is now being addressed but says the authorities still have plenty of work to do
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