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Thailand: Send Thaksin back

11.11.09
Thailand asked Cambodia today to extradite its fugitive former prime minister Thaksin Shinawatra... more

Save these vital traces of human civilisation

04.11.09
I was sitting in the Chinese city of Xian, home of the terracotta army, trying to take a picture of its bell tower... more

Tsunami bodies wash on to beaches of devastated islands

01.10.09
Latest: 'Truckloads of bodies' were washing up on beaches in Samoa and Tonga as islanders began recovering the tsunami's victims... more

Elton John adoption bid 'sending out wrong message'

14.09.09
Elton John's plan to adopt a child from Ukraine could result in more youngsters being abandoned, a children's charity warned... more

Ronnie Wood and Princess Eugenie on the tiles

29.05.09
Rock and real royalty Ronnie Wood and Princess Eugenie know how to party.... more

Royals face cut in police guards

14.05.09
A security review is under way over the cost of providing police protection for junior members of the royal family, the Standard can reveal ... more

Paedophile was working in children's ward as nurse

02.03.09
A convicted paedophile was arrested after being discovered working as a children's nurse in a London hospital, it was revealed... more

Torture chief takes the stand in first Khmer Rouge trial

17.02.09
The chief of a notorious torture centre appeared before Cambodia's genocide tribunal for the start of the first trial over the deaths of an estimated 1.7million people at the hands of the Khmer Rouge regime... more

I'm eating bugs in Selfridges, get me out of here

05.12.08
Edible tarantulas are on sale in Selfridges where customers are being offered the chance to put themselves through their own DIY bushtucker trial... more

300,000 Londoners face negative equity trap

19.11.08
With the threat of deflation hanging over an economy edging into recession and job losses set to soar, experts say hundreds of thousands of homes in the capital could be repossessed by 2010... more

DVDs of the week

28.10.08
Without Robert Downey Jr's winning charm Iron Man would be a disaster. ... more

And this year’s winners are ... the liquidators

17.09.08
WITH administrators and liquidators picking over corporate carcasses around the country and consigning thousands to the dole queue, step forward the annual Insolvency and Rescue Awards... more

Lehman, Credit Suisse and the rumour mill

22.08.08
One rule for banks — another for everybody else. In the US, the Federal Reserve phoned Credit Suisse to see if it had pulled a line of credit from Lehman Brothers... more

Passport bungle lets Gary Glitter catch flight to Hong Kong

20.08.08
Gary Glitter was allowed to catch a flight to Hong Kong after a Home Office blunder left him free to travel the world... more

From soaps to the Booker

18.08.08
When Tom Rob Smith's first novel made the longlist for our most prestigious literary prize it caused a publishing storm. Here he hits back at his critics ... more

Shamed Glitter to fly back to the UK

14.08.08
Convicted child molester Gary Glitter will be deported back to Britain after being released from prison in Vietnam next week, his lawyer said... more

Brad Pitt and Maddox get in some father-and-son bonding on the go-kart track

06.08.08
Brad Pitt took time out from looking after his new twins to give his son Maddox a treat. ... more

Brad and Angelina sell baby pictures for a record £7.5million

01.08.08
Pictures of Hollywood couple Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie's new arrivals, Knox Leon and Vivienne Marcheline will be the most expensive baby pictures ever, it has emerged. ... more

Brad and Angelina's rainbow family may seem idyllic, but can the children REALLY be happy?

16.07.08
As the birth of Brad and Angelina's baby twins attracts a £10m bidding war, AMANDA PLATELL wonders what lies ahead for the couple and their rainbow brood. ... more

Gary Glitter plans a musical comeback after finishing his jail sentence

24.06.08
Former British glam rocker Gary Glitter, who is serving a jail sentence in Vietnam for molesting two girls, plans to return to singing after being released in August.... more

'I've got my Tomb Raider guns - and I'm not afraid to use them,' says Angelina

28.05.08
A routine conversation with Angelina Jolie about Brad Pitt, Liverpudlians, stunt driving, Cambodia, fighting - and why she keeps a gun at home and isn't afraid to use it.... more

So why does Brad Pitt have a map of New Orleans tattooed on his back?

13.05.08
It appears Angelina Jolie's love of tattoos is rubbing off on partner Brad Pitt. The 44-year-old unwittingly flashed his latest etching during a day out with his adopted sons Maddox, six; and Pax Thien, four. On first glimpse, it looks like one of Brad and Angelina's many children have been drawing on their famous father's back with a marker pen ... more

Offset your emissions with the Eros Green Card

22.04.08
The Evening Standard has launched the Eros Green Card, allowing readers to offset the carbon emissions of their lifestyle... more

Reward yourself, reward the planet

22.04.08
The Evening Standard's Eros card has become an invaluable part of London life, giving you money off the paper and over 30 offers. But from today, it is even more useful. The Eros Green card will allow you to offset the entire carbon footprint of your day-to-day life. ... more

Friendly face of rock and Grohl

19.11.07
Foo Fighters Dave Grohl was the ideal frontman, smiling, fist shaking and chasing from one side of the stage to the other.... more

The untold story of the lawyer who defends terrorists

24.05.07
Barbet Schroeder tells how he has turned the life of Jacques Vergès, lawyer to terrorists and war criminals, into one of the most important and powerful documentaries for 40 years.... more

Cambodia's dance-theatre fighting back

02.04.07
Weyreap's Battle is a strange danced-opera with evil giants and monkey soldiers, masks and magic, plus dancing sea horses and carousing langoustine. ... more

War chronicler turns his focus on men of God

31.01.07
Don McCullin, a rakish, atheist war photographer, says he is just the person to take the pictures of religious leaders going on show at the National Portrait Gallery.... more

Grandage just can't play it safe

25.08.06
Michael Grandage, director of the Donmar, has scored another hit with Frost/Nixon. But, he says, every new production leaves his playhouse standing on a knife-edge.... more

Stoppard's boy rewrites fast food

16.08.06
Barny, son of playwright Tom Stoppard, tells Nick Curtis how he is determined to revolutionise our takeaways.... more

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