2012 Standard bearers: Olympic 400m champion continues her countdown to defending her title in London as she trains hard for the Commonwealth Games... more
Andrew O'Hagan thinks that Carrie, Samantha, Charlotte and Miranda have turned into a greedy, patronising, spoilt gaggle of gay impersonators in Sex and the City 2.... more
Pork, the fastest-growing United States meat export of the past decade, is sick with swine flu in what is turning into a crisis for American farmers... more
Barack Obama has urged Americans to embrace a "green revolution", warning that dependence on foreign oil poses a threat to the economy and the climate... more
Share prices plunged back below the 3700 support level today to trade at their lowest for six years after Europe's biggest bank, HSBC, waded into the Square Mile to tap shareholders for a record £12.5 billion. ... more
The odds may be stacked against the Arizona Cardinals in Sunday's Super Bowl but the one man who could steal it from Pittsburgh is former supermarket shelf-stacker Kurt Warner... more
Poised and unflappable, Barack Obama has fast-tracked from also-ran to America’s top job in just seven years. Andrew Gilligan asks: how did he do it?... more
Technology: Software giant Microsoft is said to be looking for big staff cuts across all divisions but may fall short of the 15,000 cuts rumoured to be planned... more
Ripley's Believe It Or Not exhibition opens at the Trocadero featuring 500 weird objects, including a Mini covered in Swarovski crystals, from around the world.... more
Admirably avoiding moral simplicity, but let down by the miscasting of Joseph Fiennes, 2,000 Feet Away is a serious attempt to handle the tricky issue of sex offenders on stage.... more
Maggie Smith returns to the West End in an Edward Albee play that hasn't been revived since its disastrous Broadway premiere. After five decades of acting, the fear, she says, is just as bad.... more
Casting Don Johnson, best remembered as smoothie detective Sonny Crockett in Miami Vice, as Nathan Detroit in spiv musical Guys And Dolls was always going to be a high-risk gamble.
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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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