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Kate expectations: Duchess of Cambridge charms young Canadians

04.07.11
She has talked of her desire to become a mother - and the Duchess of Cambridge shows she is a natural as she plays with a face-painted child on her visit to Canada... more

Dragonboats, copters and cowboys on royal couple's great Canadian adventure

21.06.11
Prince William will help perform the daring manoeuvre of landing a helicopter on water during the royal visit to Canada... more

London Stock Exchange may get the chance of a second crack at Liffe

13.05.11
Xavier Rolet, chief executive of the London Stock Exchange, is keeping a close eye on rival stock markets' urge to merge even as he pushes his own £4.2 billion deal with Canada's TMX Group forward... more

Prince William in two rescue missions just days after royal wedding

06.05.11
The Duke of Cambridge took part in two mountain rescues in the week after his wedding, the Ministry of Defence reveals... more

Canada's PM re-elected by majority for the first time since 2006

03.05.11
Canada's prime minister Stephen Harper has been re-elected, but with an outright majority for the first time... more

Here comes the sun... Huge solar flare could show us the northern lights but jam the satnav

17.02.11
The biggest solar eruption for four years is set to light up Britain's skies in the next 48 hours... more

Solar storm could cripple 2012 satellites, says Met Office

06.01.11
London could suffer a freak space storm as it hosts the Olympic Games, the Met Office warns... more

Winter wonderland in Quebec

21.10.10
Quebec isn’t just a little piece of France on the other side of the pond: when the snow falls, it celebrates in style, says Jeanette Griffiths... more

Caught on camera: the moment earthquake struck Canada

24.06.10
The moment a 5.0-magnitude earthquake struck Canada is captured on film as it forces people from buildings in the capital Ottawa... more

City Spy: All eyes on Treasury Select Committee hot seat

01.06.10
Revenge is best served cold, as Terry Smith hopes to demonstrate the when former Collins Stewart and Tullett Prebon director Michael Fallon is elected chairman of the Treasury Select Committee... more

Taking a ride on Boris's hot wheels hire bikes

21.05.10
With nine weeks to go before Boris’s hire bikes arrive in the capital, Ross Lydall visits the production line in Canada to take one for a spin... more

2012 chiefs on slippery slope if they don't learn Winter Games lessons

02.03.10
Vancouver has one clear lesson for organisers of London 2012 — keep the Olympics simple or you will end up looking stupid... more

New call for helmets in wake of ski death

18.02.10
Holidaymakers planning ski trips are urged to wear a helmet after a British woman was killed in Austria on a beginners’ slope... more

Alex Bilodeau overwhelmed by sudden fame

16.02.10
Alex Bilodeau admits he is still struggling to come to terms with his meteoric rise to fame after he became the first Canadian to win Olympic gold on home soil... more

Anvil is the headbanger's fairytale

12.02.10
Sacha Gervasi's hilarious documentary about Anvil's failed comeback tour has won an Evening Standard Award — and revived the band’s fortunes.... more

French go for London gold by luring athletes ahead of 2012 Olympics

26.01.10
London may have beaten Paris in the bid to host the 2012 Olympics but the French are cashing in on the Games... more

The Rake's Progress depicts fame and greed in a golden age

25.01.10
Financial scandal, the venality of the newly rich and famous, the shallow pursuit of hedonism: The Rake's Progress might almost have been written for today... more

Majesty go home: Charles visit to Canada hit by Quebec protests

11.11.09
Anti-monarchy protesters have disrupted a visit to Canada by Prince Charles and the Duchess of Cornwall... more

The Standard Theatre Awards 2009: Longlist revealed

02.11.09
Our longlist for the London Evening Standard Theatre Awards proves it has been 12 months of critical as well as commercial success.... more

Glaxo starts to shift swine flu vaccine worth £2.2bn

06.10.09
GlaxoSmithKline announced it had started to dispatch its swine flu vaccine around the world and said it has received contracts for 440 million doses of its pandemic vaccine ... more

These are a few of my favourite things

07.09.09
JB Priestley’s 1949 collection of short essays about things that delighted him has been updated by the members of the London Library. From girl bands to Bexhill-on-Sea, here six of them reveal their secret delights...... more

Natasha Richardson fights for life after freak ski fall

17.03.09
Actress Natasha Richardson is critically ill after falling and banging her head during a skiing lesson in Canada... more

Health is a walk in the park

12.03.09
Living near a park could dramatically improve children's health, scientists have said... more

CDs of the week

30.01.09
The View's latest has the swagger of those who already have a number one album tucked into their filthy jeans and Janet Mason's record has clever themes.... more

Long day's journey for Lipsynch

08.09.08
Lipsynch at the Barbican is by turns demanding, rewarding, richly textured, inventive, clumsy, coarse, affecting and infuriating.... more

A return to Beatlemania as Macca fans storm through the concert gates

21.07.08
At 66, Sir Paul McCartney proves he can still inspire Beatle-like mania the world over.... more

Hell comes to Hollywood in Rake's Progress

08.07.08
Robert Lepage's production of Stravinsky's Rake's Progress boasts such an ingenious conceit as to annihilate quibbles.... more

The picture that reveals the changing face of the Royal Family... and families everywhere

20.05.08
This extraordinary picture from the weekend's royal wedding graphically captures the changing face of both the monarchy and modern families everywhere.... more

Glenn Ford, best character actor, dies

31.08.06
Glenn Ford, one of the most enduring stars of the silver screen, has died at the age of 90. The actor, who appeared in more than 200 films in a career spanning five decades, died at his home.... more


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