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Chávez poll victory makes him 'President Unstoppable'

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CDs of the week: Cheryl Cole's album is a flop

23.10.09

Cheryl Cole's solo album is this week's most talked about release. Evening Standard music critic Rick Pearson says: steer well clear.... more

16,000 BNP members exposed on leaked list

20.10.09

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I'll take that Hilton, says Chavez

15.10.09

President Hugo Chavez has taken control of a landmark hotel managed by Hilton on Margarita island, Venezuela... more

Modern-day 'Raffles' who escaped UK prison recaptured

30.09.09

Latest: Modern-day Raffles who targeted top London hotels is arrested in US after Catch Me If You Can-style four years on the run... more

Paraguay qualify for World Cup with impressive win

10.09.09

Paraguay became the 11th nation to make it into the World Cup finals thanks to a convincing 1-0 win over Argentina, whose qualification hopes took a further blow... more

Why Obama needs to find his fairway to heaven

10.09.09

The final and decisive round of the PGA Championship last month unfolded in a manner few had predicted... more

Great shakes! Greek 'mixologist' is the best of bartenders

17.07.09

Greek cocktail 'mixologist' has beaten thousands of competitors to be crowned Bartender of the Year at a ceremony in London... more

Chavez cans the sale of Coke Zero in Venezuela

11.06.09

Renowned anti-capitalist Hugo Chavez has struck at the core of US commercial imperialism and banned a Coca-Cola brand ... more

British family's grief for boy, 6, killed in holiday plane crash

20.04.09

The family and friends of a six-year-old British boy killed when a light tourist aircraft crashed in Venezuela have spoken of their devastation... more

Anything Venezuela can do, Lambeth can do much better

20.04.09

As the Simón Bolívar Orchestra thrill London concertgoers, Julian Lloyd Webber explains how they have inspired his own classical music scheme for children on a south London estate ... more

Venezuelan youth orchestra to star in the new season at Festival Hall

14.04.09

The orchestra now hailed as the most successful youth music project in the world is taking up residence in the Southbank Centre... more

Venezuelans grab UK company's land

06.03.09

UK corrugated cardboard firm Smurfit Kappa has had a large tract of land in Venezuela seized by President Hugo Chavez... more

British couple with children arrested over 'cocaine bags'

19.02.09

A British couple have been arrested in South America accused of carrying £200,000 of cocaine... more

Chávez poll victory makes him 'President Unstoppable'

16.02.09

Venezuela has paved the way for Hugo Chávez to stand for re-election as president after voting to lift limits on terms in office for elected officials... more

Are the fat cats of TfL taking us for a ride?

09.02.09

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Westfield's Pho is suitably refreshing

19.01.09

The queue at Westfield's Pho zigzagged like a share-price graph. But it was worth the wait.... more

Boris saves City Hall 'embassies'

19.01.09

Boris Johnson has announced that City Hall's "foreign embassies" would continue because they are a good way of promoting London abroad during the economic downturn... more

Hard times makes houses into homes

08.10.08

I swear I can hear the family houses in the next road breathing a collective sigh of relief. The looming recession is the best thing that has happened to them for a decade... more

Venezuela, Russia to get together on oil

26.09.08

Venezuela and Russia plan to create a giant oil consortium to invest in joint ventures, as Moscow plans to challenge the dominance of Opec in influencing world energy markets... more

Brazil can do without Ronaldinho

26.09.08

Football: Brazil have called up the Manchester City trio of Robinho, Jo and Elano for next month's World Cup qualifying games against Venezuela and Colombia... more

Boris hands back £7m from Ken's oil deal to Chavez

05.08.08

Boris Johnson will return £7million to Venezuela after scrapping an oil deal made by Ken Livingstone... more

Reasons to believe oil prices may ease soon

17.07.08

It is too early to say whether this week's wobble in the oil price marks the top, but there are reasons to think it might - and if it does, it is the best possible news for a beleaguered world economy... more

Barbican on music mission

20.06.08

The Barbican is to become London's biggest "afterschool club" by providing free concerts and music lessons for some of the capital's poorest pupils... more

Slow bus to China is cancelled after quake

27.05.08

A plan to send a red doubledecker bus to China to coincide with the Olympic Games has been dropped following the earthquake in the Sichuan province... more

Alstom faces bribery probe

06.05.08

Engineering giant is under investigation amid allegations that it paid bribes to win key contracts... more

Chavez bids to grab new crude windfall

25.03.08

Venezuela's maverick President Hugo Chavez plans to slap a new tax on oil producers... more

Sierra losing ability to surprise

05.12.07

You never know what to expect from Spanish-born conceptual artist Santiago Sierra, but rather than provoke, this latest work fails to pack a punch.... more

An epic journey from slum to Shostakovich

20.08.07

This year's Proms continued with performances from the Youth Orchestra of Venezuela and the Birmingham Symphony Chorus.... more

Adams's mystifying but soothing eco-fable

13.08.07

John Adams's new opera, A Flowering Tree, shuns the contemporary politics of Nixon in China and turns to ancient South Indian mythology.... more

Critic's Choice: Top Five Gigs

01.09.06

David Smyth picks some of the best live music in London this weekend, from Beck's essential set at the Shepherd's Bush Empire to Nina Nastasia's appearance at the King's Head in Crouch End.... more