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Swine flu leaves US farmers pig sick

17.08.09
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

Facebook isn’t dividing us: it helps kids bond

04.08.09
Archbishop Nichols, head of the Catholic Church in England, is worried that social-networking sites are “dehumanising” community life... more

Star Trek is back from the future

07.05.09
The creator of Lost takes the Starship Enterprise and its youthful crew back to the future in a successful reinvention of Star Trek.... more

America must turn to 'clean' energy, says Obama

23.04.09
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

Six worth reading: the Orange prize nominees

21.04.09
Six authors are in the race for this year’s £30,000 Orange Prize for Fiction... more

FTSE lowest for 6 years as HSBC joins cash-call queue

02.03.09
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

Cash calls dominate as Footsie goes sliding again

02.03.09
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Warner can upset the odds stacked against his Cards

30.01.09
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

Barack Obama: President of cool

20.01.09
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

Microsoft ‘looking for big staff cuts’

15.01.09
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

A mad, happy November night in Grant Park

05.11.08
Chicago became the biggest open-air party in the world as people flooded the streets to celebrate... more

Confident Obama plans $1m election night party

24.10.08
It is just over a week until America chooses its next president but Barack Obama is already planning his election night celebrations... more

Welcome to a weird old world

18.08.08
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

Will Hillary rain on Obama's parade?

18.08.08
The story I'd been hearing for some time has finally come out in the open: Hillary Clinton, Bill, and many of her major financial supporters, known as "bundlers", are so livid at what they see as underhanded play by the Obama team that they intend to eviscerate what ought to be Obama's coronation at the Democratic Party Convention in Denver this week... more

Barack Obama's broken promise to African village

25.07.08
The Evening Standard reveals that would-be US President Barack Obama has failed to deliver pledges to improve life in a poverty-stricken Kenyan community he insists has a special place in his heart... more

Music man hits the right notes

04.07.08
Rachel Kavanaugh's delightfully lively production of The Music Man is just the thing to banish the credit-crunch blues.... more

Corn cost up on new flood fears

18.06.08
Food companies face further price pressure after a Mississippi River levee broke, flooding Illinois cropland... more

Secrets & hysteria: Tackling paedophilia on stage

17.06.08
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

Why I like older women, by Ashton Kutcher

22.05.08
A candid interview with the actor and younger husband of Demi Moore. 'Demi has made me complete,' he says. 'And the girls are the icing on the cake that is my life.'... more

I'm very scared of being back on stage

02.03.07
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

Crockett? Johnson is more Tubs as main Guy

19.01.07
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. ... more

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