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Cheers! The City toasts SABMiller, as BP struggles with the black stuff

06.10.11
Frothy bid chatter meant investors were raising a pint to SABMiller today following rumours suggesting the Grolsch brewer could be in line for a mega-merger... more

Google's Ice Cream could be hot stuff for chip designer

27.09.11
As Google blew out the candles on its birthday cake, Imagination Technologies was also celebrating, thanks to hopes the chip designer is about to get a present from the US giant... more

North Korea's Kim Jong-il on 'fun' Russia trip

24.08.11
North Korean leader Kim Jong-il met Russian president Dmitry Medvedev in Siberia for talks over his country's nuclear programme... more

Manchurian Legends, W1 - review

11.08.11
From the restaurant group Hi Sushi comes Manchurian Legends, homing in on Dongbei food from NorthEast China... more

Yachts in demand as property industry heads for Cannes

04.03.11
Property tycoons are fighting each other to snap up the best yachts at Cannes, ahead of next week's Mipim trade fair... more

Russian coal group plans London flotation

12.01.11
OAO Koks says it will launch an initial public offering of its shares in both Moscow and London in the near future, raising about £400 million... more

The Way Back is worth the journey

24.12.10
After years in development, this beautifully shot film - though not without its faults - proves to be worth the wait... more

Ryanair pilot quits after being sent to ‘dreadful’ Lithuania

07.12.10
A Ryanair pilot who said his boss Michael O’Leary should be replaced with a flight attendant to save money has quit after being moved to Lithuania... more

Teen plane stowaway survives Siberia flight

02.11.10
A 17-year-old stowaway survives a 50-minute flight across Siberia hidden in the plane’s landing gear... more

Russian store chain aims to raise £315m in London float

05.10.10
Russia's third-largest supermarket chain plans to raise as much as $500 million (£315 million) through a new share listing on the London Stock Exchange before the year end... more

Olympic ‘Pringle’ Velodrome to be first venue ready in 2012 park

21.06.10
The 'Pringle' — a £95million velodrome with the world’s fastest cycling track — will be the first major 2012 Olympic sports venue to be completed... more

How to blag a seat a London's top tables

17.06.10
Securing the best tables at London’s top restaurants — never easy at the best of times — just got a whole lot tougher.... more

Majoring in cheese at L'Art du Fromage

01.04.10
New French joint in Chelsea is the creation of two 24-year-olds from Strasbourg, Julien Ledogar and Jean-Charles Madenspacher... more

30 suicide bombers ‘behind Moscow blasts’

30.03.10
Group of up to 30 suicide bombers could be behind the Moscow station bombings that killed 39 people, Russia’s security services fear... more

Renée Fleming should sprinkle some stardust

04.11.09
Not content to rest on her laurels, the American soprano Renée Fleming has been investigating unfamiliar repertoire in recent years.... more

The art of chessboxing - where brains can knock out brawn

05.10.09
'And he follows that check with a right uppercut ...' Richard Godwin looks at chessboxing, where you can be both master of the board and king of the ring... more

Suicide bomber kills 20 in rebel Russian region

17.08.09
Suicide bomber exploded a truck at a police station today in Russia's North Caucasus, killing at least 20 and wounding 60... more

Stephen Webster: the rocks god

05.06.09
Stephen Webster has survived divorce, depression, anorexia and near-ruin to emerge as London's top jeweller... more

Snowball duel at 10 paces, Pushkin-style

03.02.09
"The destruction," said The Today programme as I sloped into the kitchen yesterday morning, "is widespread."... more

Now Roman feels the chill in Siberia

31.12.08
Roman Abramovich may have had to cancel his party at his opulent ski lodge in the Rockies, but that is nothing compared with the hardship endured by the employees of Evraz, the steelmaker he part-owns in Siberia... more

Modern comfort food at its very best

18.09.08
Service at The Modern Pantry in Clerkenwell is chilled-out to the point of leaving you in Siberia. But the main course is worth the wait.... more

Imperial Energy sale to India hands £90 million to founder

26.08.08
Peter Levine is £90 million richer after talks to sell his Imperial Energy business to India ended in success... more

New Imperial surge on bid price delight

15.07.08
Shares in Imperial Energy rocketed for the second day running after the company revealed it is in takeover talks at a much higher price than the market expected... more

The modern ruin of my favourite restaurant

04.04.08
Until I moved to the Siberia that is Wimbledon, so much of my life had been spent in Kensington that I thought of myself as a villager there... more

Bear in kitsch clothing

14.01.08
Few countries have professionalised kitsch folklore as well as the Russians and they drew cheers at the Russian Winter Festival.... more

Outshone by the stars

02.01.08
Bookings at Le Café Anglais are already as hard to get as a Nintendo Wii, and it looks like it's going to emulate the owners previous success.... more

Off the record

03.08.07
David Smyth discusses free music downloads, the online arrival of Led Zeppelin and the future of the Chemical Brothers.... more

Fit as a Fiddler

30.05.07
There are some simply great tunes and moving performances in this impeccable revival of musical favourite Fiddler on the Roof, says Fiona Mountford.... more

Anywhere but Ozu

27.09.06
Why would anyone would choose to eat at Ozu? It's not terrible, but my dinner there left me little other than a large bill and an overwhelming sense of so what, says Marina O'Loughlin.... more


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