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Brad and Angelina book entire train from London Euston

17.08.11
Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie chartered an entire train to transport their family from London to Glasgow, Scotland... more

How Cameron and Obama remade the Atlantic alliance

25.05.11
The new "essential relationship" reflects a more limited role for the US and Britain in confronting global concerns... more

CDs of the week: Lady Gaga and Charlie Haden

20.05.11
Our critics round-up this week's biggest music releases...... more

Arnie's soap Oprah: wife appears on chatshow as his mistress is revealed

18.05.11
Former TV presenter Maria Shriver has not let the news of Arnold Schwarzenegger's secret love child ruin her own public image... more

Arnie and wife separate

10.05.11
Hasta la vista, baby... Arnold Schwarzenegger and his wife Maria Shriver have separated after 25 years of marriage... more

Fifty years on, clan celebrates JFK's inspirational speech

21.01.11
About 100 members of the Kennedy clan celebrated the 50th anniversary of John F Kennedy's speech when he told Americans to "ask not what your country can do for you - ask what you can do for your country."... more

Blow for Katie Holmes as The Kennedys is cancelled before it even airs

10.01.11
The History Channel in the US will not air a controversial miniseries it produced about the Kennedy family starring Katie Holmes and Greg Kinnear... more

Heads blast ‘devastating’ cuts to school rebuilding projects

06.07.10
Headteachers condemned 'devastating' spending cuts today after the Government axed plans to rebuild 170 run-down secondaries in London... more

History can be too fast in the making

02.06.10
How long, I wonder, until the David Laws affair gets turned into a three-part BBC historical drama?... more

Picasso wife worth less than mistress

06.05.10
A Picasso painting of his wife has sold for £6.1 million only a day after a portrait of his mistress sold for more than £70 million... more

Singer Erykah Badu strips naked at JFK assassination site in new video

31.03.10
American singer Erykah Badu has caused a stir with her new music video, in which she strips naked at the site where President John F. Kennedy was assassinated...... more

Hollywood's sweetheart: Olivia de Havilland

26.03.10
As Melanie in Gone With the Wind, the world fell in love with Olivia de Havilland. And Olivia's own life has been as tumultuous as her character's. Hermione Eyre meets the queen of the silver screen... more

Darling, I’m not name-dropping I’m networking

16.10.09
Never mind the six degrees of Kevin Bacon. Nicky Haslam's forthcoming memoirs, Redeeming Features, has set a whole new benchmark for the small world phenomenon... more

WORLD: US Senator Teddy Kennedy dies, aged 77

26.08.09
Edward Kennedy, head of America’s most famous political dynasty ever since the assassination of his two brothers, dies at the age of 77 after suffering a brain tumour... more

WORLD: Thousands join Kennedy clan to celebrate life of Eunice

14.08.09
Thousands of mourners joined family members at a public wake for Eunice Kennedy Shriver ... more

Mood captured in Un Ballo in Maschera

22.07.09
Martin Lloyd‑Evans's OHP production of Un Ballo in Maschera catches some of the opera's hallucinatory intensity. ... more

Vengeful, brooding and secretive – will Brown become our own Nixon?

15.04.09
The PM’s modus operandi, as revealed by the Damian McBride affair, has troubling parallels with that of Richard Nixon, says one historian ... more

Obama runs into storm of protest over closure of Guantanamo

23.01.09
President Barack Obama’s honeymoon is drawing to a close, less than 48 hours after he took office... more

Urgent tasks in Washington

21.01.09
ONE THING is already apparent in the first day of Barack Obama's administration: the man's stamina is considerable... more

Makeba, anti-apartheid's voice, dies after concert

10.11.08
Miriam Makeba, the South African singing star who was banned from her own country for more than 30 years under apartheid, has died... more

Record vote as Obama and McCain wait to hear fate

04.11.08
America was gripped with Obama-mania as voters went to the polls in record numbers... more

Barack Obama reinvents the dream of Luther King

29.08.08
Barack Obama staked his claim for the White House with a speech immediately hailed as one of the greatest in American political history... more

I'll beat brain cancer to see a new America born, says Kennedy

26.08.08
Senator Edward Kennedy overcame his fight with brain cancer to tell the Democratic Party convention that his brother's dream "lives on" through Barack Obama... more

Did Jackie Kennedy's jealous lover order the assassination of her beloved brother-in-law Bobby?

22.08.08
An explosive play reveals how Aristotle Onassis' obsession with Jackie Kennedy may have driven him to murder her beloved brother-in-law Bobby.... more

Candide is lost in translation

26.06.08
ENO's shiny new staging of Candide, Bernstein's 1956 operetta, has transformed this musical version of Voltaire's novella into a satire about post-war America.... more

Spitzer's girls have to face facts of life

17.03.08
One aspect in particular has bothered me as the Spitzer controversy rages: his daughters, Elyssa, 17, Sarabeth, 15, and Jenna, 13... more

Photos inspire painters at Hayward show

29.08.07
Works by modern artists including Andy Warhol and David Hockney will go on show at the Hayward Gallery next month.... more

Noel: 'I'd be bigger than Elvis'

15.02.07
Oasis front man Noel Gallagher says he would be "bigger than Elvis" if he became a solo artist and hit out at politicians, saying that there was "nothing left to vote for".... more


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