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Hans Backe confirmed as Notts County boss

27.10.09
Notts County have confirmed the appointment of Hans Backe as their new manager... more

Hans Backe to meet with Notts County

26.10.09
Sven-Goran Eriksson's former assistant Hans Backe has confirmed he will have talks with Notts County regarding the vacant managerial post at the Coca-Cola League Two club... more

Austria's Kinderhotels are perfect for kids

25.09.09
How do you turn a family of urban couch potatoes into hiking, yodelling, muesli-eating von Trapps? Anne McElvoy packs her knapsack and heads to Austria’s Kinderhotel to find out... more

Meet Marios Schwab: the new Halston supremo

18.09.09
Halston, the seriously glamorous 1970s fashion label, has found its ideal creative director in Marios Schwab, an Athenian Austrian with a forensic eye for the female form... more

Linesman struck by plastic cup

30.07.09
Red Bull Salzburg face UEFA charges after an assistant referee was hit in the head by an object thrown from the stands during their Champions League qualifier against Dinamo Zagreb... more

Good on Jamie Neale for making a break for it

16.07.09
Jamie Neale, the Muswell Hill backpacker lost for 10 days in the Australian bush, is doubtless relieved to have been found before succumbing to dehydration or unpleasant Antipodean wildlife... more

Bargain supermarket Aldi may bring cheap petrol to Britain

03.07.09
The Austrian arm of discount supermarkets chain Aldi launched the company’s first petrol stations with astonishingly cheap fuel, triggering hopes that it may do the same in Britain ... more

Pick of the Proms - from Bollywood to Barenboim

26.05.09
No other festival offers so much for so little money. Here is a round-up of the concerts not to be missed as part of this year's Proms festival.... more

Return of the great British soprano

04.03.09
Amanda Roocroft’s singing career looked burnt out — but her comeback at English National Opera next week offers a lesson for the next generation of divas... more

Haunting melody from Die tote Stadt

28.01.09
Die tote Stadt is not an unmitigated success but the knockout power of the score makes its 90-year neglect truly incomprehensible.... more

The face of modern opera

14.01.09
The first big event in London’s music calendar is the UK premiere of Die tote Stadt, Korngold’s 1920 work that finally brought opera into the real world... more

50 ways to have fun in 2009

02.01.09
Priscilla on stage, Blur reunited, Michael Sheen as Brian Clough — we bring you the highlights of London’s arts calendar for the coming months. ... more

Mad about Mahler

10.12.08
Millionaire amateur conductor Gilbert E Kaplan satisfied his lifelong obsession with one symphony when he led the New York Phil in a passionate performance this week.... more

Opera acrobatics as ENO looks to the circus

24.11.08
The excitement of the big top will come to the Coliseum when circus director Daniele Finzi Pasca takes over in the summer... more

From one diva to the next: Katherine Jenkins and Joan Collins turn on the glamour

28.08.08
If singer Katherine Jenkins needs any pointers on how to maintain her poise in front of the cameras, she could do worse than ask an old pro like Joan Collins.... more

No belief in Afterlife

11.06.08
The National has done Michael Frayn's amusing new play a disservice by staging this weird, dull ramble, says Nicholas de Jongh.... more

Zlatan can make it too hot for Greeks

10.06.08
Hailed as one of the best in Europe, striker Ibrahimovic wants to transfer his club form to the big stage ... more

The history play man

03.06.08
Michael Frayn again delves into the past for his new play, Afterlife, about the now obscure theatre director Max Reinhardt.... more

Be seduced by a superstar

15.01.08
La Traviata was a triumph of operatic spectacle with the superstar of the 21st century, Anna Netrebko, giving an electrifying performance.... more

Passion boxed in

14.05.07
Musical standards ruled, even if the tedium of the Pelléas and Mélisande production did its devilish and level best to hijack minds and flatten imagination.... more

Who'll be the stars of the arts in 2007?

02.01.07
Our critics introduce the names to watch out for over the next 12 months - the ones you won’t have heard of before, the ones that you’ll suddenly see everywhere – and the one the critics will love best in 2007.... more

Silver sounds of a golden couple

01.11.06
They're the new golden couple of opera, and although any romantic linkage between Anna Netrebko and Rolando Villazon is strenuously denied, few at the Barbican believed it... more

Sheer aural luxury

04.09.06
There's always a special buzz when foreign ensembles come to the Proms. So make the most of tonight's concerts, which mark the end of the overseas visitors to the Albert Hall this season.... more

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