Joel Robuchon makes his ‘Top Chef’ debut on Bravo

Tough-talking chef Joel Robuchon appears as a judge on a French-themed episode of Top Chef

Picture Past: August 15, 1945, VJ Day

1945: Americans marked VJ Day - the end of the Second World War in the Pacific - with ticker tape celebrations

Eunice Kennedy Shriver dies at 88

One of the great matriarchs of American society, and a champion of the ‘least powerful’, has died in Massachusetts

Barack Obama’s popularity plummets

It’s worse than Bush’s at this stage of his presidency, as health legislation proves a nightmare

Racism charge as police arrest Harvard professor

Was Gates, a prominent African-American historian, the victim of racial profiling?

Pat Buchanan: ‘white people deserve more’

His outburst was part of a criticism of Obama's choice of Hispanic Sonia Sotomayor for the Supreme Court

What will Joe Biden say next?

Alexander Cockburn on the vice president who just can't keep his mouth shut

Forget climate change, ageing populations are the real problem

Forget climate change, old man Europe must find a way to keep up with the younger populations of Asia, Africa and America

This week’s dream: California’s coastal wilderness

The majestic region of Big Sur between LA and San Francisco has left generations of visitors awestruck