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Hints of a carefully choreographed climbdown by Brown and Smith

Yesterday, 4:26pmThere was a reek of burning rubber around Westminster this afternoon after the Government threw its spin machine into reverse over the heavy-handed arrest and questioning of Opposition immigration spokesman…   read more 

Madonna and A-Rod seek Manhattan home

Yesterday, 12:10pmMadonna certainly is not one to let the grass grow under her feet. Barely a fortnight after she and Guy Ritchie got their quickie divorce in London, the 50-year-old singer…   read more 

Kimberly Quinn becomes an author

Yesterday, 11:31amKimberley Fortier, the former publisher of the Spectator who came to public attention when in 2004 it was revealed she had had a love child with the then Home…   read more 

Is Vogue editor Anna Wintour about to be deposed?

Yesterday, 10:12amIs Anna Wintour (pictured right) about to get the push from American Vogue? US Media gossip website Gawker reports a "red hot rumour" that Conde Naste owner Si Newhouse recently…   read more 

In brief: Kirsten Dunst’s stalker held

Yesterday, 9:02amKirsten Dunst (pictured), most recently seen in the screen adaptation of English journalist Toby Young's best-selling book How to Lose Friends and Alienate People, has won a restraining order…   read more 

Turner Prize winner Mark Leckey leaves critics unimpressed

Yesterday, 8:56amConceptual artist Mark Lecky, who last night picked up the £25,000 Turner Prize, celebrated his victory by taking a swipe at the type of "shock art" purveyed by his contemporaries.…   read more 

Lord Ahmed facing prison sentence

Yesterday, 8:52amLord Ahmed (pictured), Britain's first Muslim peer, is facing a jail sentence after admitting yesterday that he had sent a text message to a friend while driving his car…   read more 

Ram Gopal Varma and the Taj hotel mystery

Yesterday, 8:50amAn extraordinary row has broken out in Bollywood following the terrorist attack on Mumbai. It transpires that the film-maker Ram Gopal Varma (pictured) was able to tour the devastated Taj…   read more 

In pictures: Venice underwater

Yesterday, 8:48amA woman walks across St Mark's Square which was under more than a metre of water at the height of the floods. Venetian officials say that the sea level has…   read more 

Mumbai: the fatal delay

Yesterday, 8:47amIndia really is a democratic country. Hence the home minister in charge of security and law-enforcement, Shivraj Patil, promptly resigned because of the Mumbai attacks in which…   read more 

Is Sumner Redstone facing financial ruin?

Yesterday, 12:00amSumner Redstone is the nasty old man of America's 'new establishment' tycoons, and there is secret joy that he seems destined to be the first to lose his…   read more 

Palin goes back on the campaign trail to help Saxby Chambliss

December 1, 2008, 4:20pmTo the delight of many GOP supporters: Sarah Palin is back on the campaign trail. Weeks after her Republican party's heavy loss in the US Election, the run-off senate race…   read more 

Obama unveils dream team - including Hillary Clinton

December 1, 2008, 4:00pmBarack Obama today unveiled a much-hyped 'all-star' national security team including Hillary Clinton as Secretary of State, Robert Gates keeping his job as Defence Secretary, Eric Holder as the first…   read more 

In Town Last Night: Demi and Bruce see Scout ‘come out’ in Paris

December 1, 2008, 3:00pmOne of Europe's most glittering balls got a touch of Hollywood glamour this weekend, when actors Bruce Willis (left) and Demi Moore (right) attended the coming out of their daughter, 17-year-old…   read more 

Power to work for ‘Monster’ Clinton

December 1, 2008, 12:21pmSamantha Power, the Pulitzer Prize-winning Harvard professor who was forced to resign from Barack Obama's presidential campaign team in March after calling Hillary Clinton "a monster", has joined the…   read more 

Conrad Black’s craven bid for freedom

December 1, 2008, 11:42amConrad Black, the former Daily Telegraph proprietor now serving a six-and-a-half year sentence for corporate fraud, is not giving up on his desperate bid to win a presidential pardon…   read more 

Picture past: December 1, 1956

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Mumbai: questions which must be answered

December 1, 2008, 9:43amThe 60-hour battle across the commercial and tourist centre of Mumbai raises many questions about the changing nature of terrorism and the response of the authorities, not…   read more 

Twilight star Robert Pattinson to play Salvador Dali

December 1, 2008, 9:04amTwilight, the teen vampire movie that took a stunning $70m at the American box office in its first weekend, has made its British star Robert Pattinson (pictured left with…   read more 

Jacqui Smith out of her depth as constitutional row escalates

December 1, 2008, 8:58amThe Speaker Michael Martin is expected to order a review of the Commons procedures to protect Parliamentary privilege after the arrest by anti-terrorist police of the Opposition immigration spokesman, Damian…   read more 

Naipaul, Theroux and the witch-doctor

December 1, 2008, 8:58amThe row between VS Naipaul and the travel writer Paul Theroux has flared up again. In an article in this month's Tatler, Nadira, Sir Vidia's fiery second wife, reveals that…   read more 

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