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Outraged over comedy in five easy steps

18.11.09
Stop! Stop what you are doing at once! A major breach in public decorum and decency has occurred and you owe it to Society In General to take a moment to be appalled... more

Plastic boat that takes a lot of bottle to sail

16.11.09
Explorer David de Rothschild spoke for the first time today about his mission to sail from San Francisco to Sydney in a catamaran made from plastic bottles... more

Introducing... Chris Sweeney, a new Spike Jonze

23.10.09
Director Chris Sweeney, 27, has just got Will Young pregnant - in the video for Will's new single 'Hopes & Fears'... more

Oil passes $80 as US earnings cheer market

20.10.09
Oil prices surged above $80 a barrel today for the first time this year after strong corporate earnings in the US boosted investor confidence ... more

Hollywood studio MGM wins respite on payments

02.10.09
Struggling Hollywood studio Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer has gained a short respite from making interest payments as it tries to reach a long-term solution to its mountain of debt ... more

British grandmother loses death row appeal

18.09.09
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Death Row Briton pleads for her life by 'appearing' on the fourth plinth

10.09.09
A British grandmother on Death Row in the US has "appeared" on Trafalgar Square's fourth plinth in an appeal to Londoners to save her from lethal injection... more

Actors hang on for dear life in Stand By Your Van

19.08.09
Edinburgh theatre: Classed as "man to van combat", Stand By Your Van is evidence that director Paul Bourne certainly knows how to work an audience... more

Caddie Lance Ten Broeck grabs his chance

15.05.09
Golf: Lance Ten Broeck caddied for Jesper Parnevik at the Texas Open and then went out and shot 71, with borrowed clubs... more

New swine flu warning after young mother dies in hospital

06.05.09
A new mother has become the second person to die after catching swine flu in America, triggering a new alert over the severity of the virus... more

Swine flu - around the world

28.04.09
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If we ‘kill the rich’, don’t we kill the dream?

23.03.09
MY neighbour at dinner, a hedge-fund manager originally from Texas, was emphatic... more

Off the record: the buzz begins here

27.02.09
Ever since The White Stripes were discovered at SXSW, the Texas festival has been the place to spot tomorrow's stars — this year there are plenty to tip.... more

Stanford's Virgin Islands assets not yet seized

23.02.09
Scandal: Allen Stanford has millions of dollars worth of assets on the Caribbean island of St. Croix, but US regulators have not seized any in their probe of the Texas billionaire, a US Marshal said... more

UBS sign-up lures fuel bonuses anger

03.02.09
Banking: Bankers’ disillusionment over their bonuses deepened as it emerged that UBS, which has been slashing payouts for most staff, hired brokers in the US on bumper pay deals... more

Enjoy them, it's a blessing says mother of octuplets

27.01.09
The world's first set of octuplets to survive more than a few hours were born in Houston in Texas just over a decade ago... more

Generation O hails Obama the hero

21.01.09
More than a million people joined Barack Obama’s inauguration party in scenes that could have come straight out of Hollywood. But behind the razzmatazz America found a profound new hope... more

Dolly puts Gulf on storm watch

22.07.08
Gulf of Mexico oil producers are keeping a close watch on Tropical Storm Dolly, which is growing in strength... more

CDs of the week

18.07.08
CSS's stronger grasp of English means the lyrics are less entertaining and Primal Scream's record excites rage from its detractors.... more

Sharleen Spiteri: The lone star of Texas

10.07.08
Sharleen Spiteri's decision to take an open-ended break from her job as the singer with Texas was not a particularly difficult one.... more

Singin' in the Rain Hollywood great Cyd Charisse dead at 87

18.06.08
Cyd Charisse, a former co-star of Fred Astaire and Gene Kelly, died last night in Los Angeles after suffering an apparent heart attack on Monday. She was 87. ... more

Who's that serving up burgers at a fast food joint? Eva Longoria gets a taste of how the other half live

28.05.08
Eva Longoria rolls up her sleeves to go back to go and work in a fast food restaurant for a charity campaign. ... more

Angelina insists on French birth so her twins will follow her Gallic mother

23.05.08
For the past three weeks, Angelina Jolie and Brad Pitt have been ensconced in luxurious surroundings on the French Riviera preparing for the birth of their twins.... more

Casualty of war

24.04.08
Boys Don't Cry director Kimberly Peirce suggests that war affects even good soldiers badly on their return home in her latest film, Stop-Loss.... more

Banks hit back on radio buyout

01.04.08
RBS and five other banks being sued over the buyout of a US radio operator are fighting back... more

Action woman: Heavily pregnant Angelina Jolie takes to the skies

12.03.08
A fearless Angelina Jolie has clearly not left her Lara Croft action girl role behind her as the heavily pregnant star took to the skies in a light aircraft. Just 24 hours after revealing a not inconsiderable bump, brave Angelina was seen climbing aboard a tiny private plane at an airfield in Smallsville, Texas ... more

Donnie Darko's follow-up torture

06.12.07
To see Southland Tales again would be pure torture and made our critic wonder whether so much energy has ever been expended to so little effect.... more

Planet Terrible

08.11.07
Planet Terror is, unlikely as it sounds, possibly an even worse film than Quentin Tarantino's Death Proof.... more

Shut up and sing

28.06.07
An affirmative documentary about how the Dixie Chicks stood up to be counted after they made anti-President Bush remarks apropos the Iraq war. ... more

Masterful Coens cut to the chase

21.05.07
A tense and blood-spattered thriller, No Country For Old Men ranks alongside the Coen Brothers best work, says Derek Malcolm... more

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