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Hunger striker's fury over Met�s �secret McDonald's� claim

2009-10-09T07:46:57Z

Hunger striker at centre of one of Britain�s longest-running demonstrations reacted with fury after being accused of secretly eating McDonald�s

Lord Attenborough�s clearance sale

2009-09-24T09:04:16Z

Lord Attenborough is to sell off his treasured paintings � because he says he has run out of wall space

London's laughing: Guide to The Camden Fringe

2009-07-29T09:51:01Z

The Camden Fringe is the in full flow � Bruce Dessau guides you to the funniest bits around.

Bleached-out Michael Jackson is no role model for me

2009-07-03T07:28:27Z

It is exactly a week since the ridiculous mass hysteria first erupted over the death of MJ (as he is now being called). For seven days the nation has been deluged with little else but the ceaseless outpourings of grief

Brave words for a new peace with the Muslim world

2009-06-05T08:37:26Z

With his speech in Cairo, the President has gone a long way towards repairing the damage of the Bush years

Versailles? Washington? Gordon Brown offers visiting world leaders ... Canning Town

2009-03-24T10:41:56Z

As global premiers prepare to assemble for the G20 summit at a bleak east London wasteland, we pick some highlights around the ExCel conference centre

Tycoon buys Gandhi glasses

2009-03-06T10:19:28Z

A�billionaire drinks baron has bid �1.3million for five items which belonged to Mahatma Gandhi

Quirky art of understatement from Mirza and Munnery

2009-02-05T00:00:00Z

While Shazia Mirza covers well-trodden terrain, Simon Munnery is a scruffy clown that revels in obscurity.

Bombay Brasserie is great place to lose pounds

2009-01-21T00:00:00Z

The revamped Bombay Brasserie still serves delicious food � but be prepared for an eye-watering bill.

I want to save lives, says doctor cleared of airport terror plot

2008-12-23T10:50:28Z

The neurosurgeon acquitted of planning car bomb attacks on London and Glasgow has insisted he wants to save lives not kill innocents

Did Cameron let the cat out of the bag?

2008-10-10T11:42:10Z

Michael Howard�s call for the Financial Services Authority to investigate the source of Robert Peston�s story about confidential talks between banking chiefs, the Chancellor and Bank of England Governor Mervyn King that sparked a plunge in bank shares on Tuesday morning is interesting.

Big business in India frets as political climate is turning sour

2008-09-15T10:04:52Z

Analysis: UK-based industrialists Lakshmi Mittal, Anil Agarwal and Lord Swraj Paul have huge projects at risk in India because of land acquisitions issues

Partition crosses the divide

2008-09-10T23:00:00Z

Partition relates the awful nature of religious bigotry but doesn't say much about the political mistake which Gandhi in the end so regretted.

A future Tory Cabinet ... at least according to Tatler

2008-09-09T09:14:35Z

Ten young Conservatives - billed as the party's stars of the future - have been transformed from dour political animals to fashionable clothes horses

Richard Attenborough: The film bosses wanted Gandhi to be sexy - and be played by Richard Burton

2008-09-03T20:39:42Z

In the final part of his captivating memoirs, film legend Richard Attenborough recalls an epic struggle

Richard Attenborough: 'How I ended up signing women's breasts while brother David tickled gorillas' chests'

2008-09-02T22:40:48Z

Here, in the third part of our exclusive serialisation of his autobiography, he tells how the strict regime of his loving father set him - and his brothers - on the path to success.

Ben Kingsley is back with a bang

2008-09-01T23:00:00Z

With The Wackness and Elegy in cinemas, isn�t it time to re-assess the late-flowering career of Sir Ben Kingsley?.

Jason Byrne levels things out

2008-08-27T23:00:00Z

Jason Byrne was on showstopping form with his reflections on the problems of keeping romance alive on the opening night of Pimms Summerfest.

My Indian summer

2008-08-22T07:33:04Z

Two months ago Nirpal Dhaliwal left London to make a fresh start in Delhi. Here, he reveals how going back to his roots has given him a new outlook

It's easy to fall for judo

2008-07-17T10:48:03Z

In the first of a new series, James Olley discovers what it takes to go to the Games by getting to grips with one of the GB judo team

Bono - up close and horrible

2008-03-04T00:00:00Z

The very act of entering the cinema and donning 3-D specs to watch U2 3D made critic Richard Godwin want to spoon his eyes out in protest.

Liz Hurley and the Indian servant problem

2008-02-21T09:25:13Z

Violet D'Souza claimed she worked 70 hours a week for Liz Hurley and her loaded husband Arun Nayar and was paid as little as £1.20 per hour for housekeeping and other chores. D'Souza is one of many servants brought in by the dizzyingly successful Indian upper and middle classes with homes across London who simply can't manage without imported flunkeys. Some are non-dom magnates or celebs, others are professionals - doctors, accountants, IT whizzes and entrepreneurs

An Indian trilogy

2007-08-08T11:17:30Z

Showing at the Whitechapel Gallery as part of the India Now season, Amar Kanwar's trilogy weaves traditional mythology with modern events.

No peace for this unknown Gandhi

2007-08-01T23:00:00Z

Gandhi my father is a decently acted but slow-paced story of the life of Gandhi's son Harilal, which fortunately manages to avoid the clich�s of Bollywood.

Floating Taj Mahal to launch Indian festival

2007-07-06T11:09:50Z

A floating replica of the Taj Mahal will sail down the Thames to launch a spectacular three-month Indian festival in London.

The secret of Monet's style, part II

2007-06-14T12:17:45Z

It has emerged that Claude Monet's famously blurred paintings may have been affected by London's weather

A child bride takes charge

2007-05-30T23:00:00Z

Deepa Mehta's superb Water, the final part of her notable Elemental Trilogy, follows the plight of a young Indian widow in 1938 trying to escape her fate for a better life.

Put Kate and Kylie 'in museum'

2007-05-17T07:32:04Z

Kate Moss, Kylie Minogue and the iPod should be preserved in museums as icons of our time, according to a new survey.

The dignity is all in the detail

2007-04-09T23:00:00Z

The ENO's faultless new production of Philip Glass's Satyagraha asks you to abandon yourself to theatre of contemplation.

Dining dens where the plot thickens

2006-09-13T13:19:23Z

Forget the Commons - London's finest restaurants are where all of the real political scheming takes place, as former Labour minister Gerald Kaufman reveals.