November 20, 2009, 5:36pmQATAR, WEDNESDAY: French president Nicolas Sarkozy waits for his wife Carla Bruni at Doha airport as they board a plane for Paris. Sarkozy had been on a tour of Gulf…
November 20, 2009, 4:59pmRNLI rescuers evacuate a woman from the town centre of Cockermouth today, where the high street has been transformed into a treacherous river after unprecedented rainfall. Water flow of up…
November 20, 2009, 4:47pmOprah Winfrey attends the People's Choice awards in Pasadena in January 2004. Today she announced that the Oprah Winfrey Show will come to an end in September 2011, after exactly…
November 20, 2009, 3:13pmThe Premier League returns this weekend from the final international break of the year, and rarely enough sees all of last year's top four in action on a… read more
November 20, 2009, 3:12pmThe Williams F1 team has become the latest to announce changes in the motorsport's close season, releasing a statement this morning saying that they had sold a minority… read more
November 20, 2009, 3:09pmThe French striker Thierry Henry said today that a replay of Wednesday night's World Cup qualifier between Ireland and France would be the "fairest
solution". This follows… read more
November 20, 2009, 1:36pmGoogle has launched its new Chrome OS operating system, throwing down the gauntlet to the market leader, Microsoft, which recently launched its own Windows 7 operating
system.… read more
November 20, 2009, 12:52pmArsenal are running the rule over Bayer Leverkusen's midfield general Tranquillo Barnetta, the Daily Star reports, as Arsene
Wenger considers his options should Cesc Fabregas succumb to… read more
November 20, 2009, 12:44pmEdgar Wright, the British director of cult films such as Shaun of the Dead and a long-time collaborator of actor Simon Pegg, is fuming after
the Times… read more
November 20, 2009, 12:18pmWhile the rest of the world has been struggling with the worst recession in decades, India's economy has glided serenely through the crisis, registering 6.1 per cent… read more
November 20, 2009, 11:00amThe most powerful woman on American television, Oprah Winfrey, will announce today that she is to give up her daytime talk show in September 2011,
exactly 25… read more
November 20, 2009, 11:00amHere's a diplomatic incident that could keep the newly appointed EU president and his high representative busy for weeks: the row between France and Ireland over the… read more
November 20, 2009, 10:49amHarriet Harman, the deputy leader of the Labour party, faces prosecution - and severe political embarrassment - after she allegedly drove her car into
a parked vehicle… read more
November 20, 2009, 7:19amYou can't please all of the people all of the time, but President Obama and his Attorney General, Eric Holder, have got nearer than most to pulling it… read more
November 20, 2009, 7:05amSo the decision as to who should be the EU's first President and its High Representative was apparently taken over a dinner of wild mushrooms, spiced sea bass… read more
November 19, 2009, 5:16pmA motorcycle burns on the Champs Elysees as Algerian football fans celebrate their team's victory in a World Cup play-off against Egypt last night. Algeria's 1-0 victory in Sudan means… read more
November 19, 2009, 4:44pmJakarta Fashion Week featured mainly Indonesian designers, but also several Indian designers using Indonesian fabrics. This was the show of India’s Tarun Tahiliani, who likes to mix traditional regional… read more
November 19, 2009, 3:43pmThe 1970s and 1980s were the golden age of rock and pop. During these decades, Swiss photographer Hannes Schmid accompanied over 250 bands and singers. His images of… read more
November 19, 2009, 3:35pmCesare Battisti, the former 1970s guerrilla who has managed to escape justice in his native Italy for the past 28 years, may finally have to go home… read more
November 19, 2009, 2:43pmWill Ferrell has topped a list of the most overpaid Hollywood actors after the appalling showing of his most recent film, Land of the Lost, at
the… read more
November 19, 2009, 2:42pmThe widely anticipated results of gender tests conducted on the South African runner Caster Semenya will not be made public, the South African government announced
today. Semenya… read more
November 19, 2009, 2:32pmCritics and US film-goers may have fallen for Michael Moore's latest documentary Capitalism: A Love Story, but the film has failed to make the Oscars
'longlist' in… read more
