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China ban gives Stone taste of bad karma
It doesn't do to upset the Chinese, as Sharon Stone (pictured) is discovering. Last week the actress gave an interview at the Cannes Film Festival in which she suggested that the earthquake in China, which has resulted in 65,000 deaths to date, might be the result of... [continued]
Boris governs London from a yacht in Turkey
During the course of his campaign to become Mayor of London, Boris Johnson claimed that he would “work flat out” for Londoners should he be elected. So it's perhaps not surprising
that his decision to go on holiday just a few weeks after his election on May 1... [continued]
Boris snubs Africa Day celebration 
In Town: Faulks and the Flemings toast new Bond book
Bond is back yet again, only this time it's Sebastian Faulks who is bravely taking on Ian Fleming's legacy. To mark the centenary of Fleming's birth, Faulks has
penned the next instalment of the classic spy franchise, Devil May Care, which launched on Tuesday night at St James's gambling den... [continued]
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Cameron helps Python raise Oxford cash
Tory leader David Cameron and Michael Palin have been enlisted by their former alma mater Oxford University, to help it raise as much £1.25bn – a cash injection that is considered vital if it is to hold its own against super-funded, American Ivy League colleges like Harvard... [continued]
In brief: shirt for sale (slight bloodstain)
Outfits worn on the American television drama The Sopranos are being sold at Christie's, New York, to raise money for a charity that looks after wounded US troops in Iraq and Afghanistan;
the sale includes the blood-spattered shirt worn by Tony Soprano, played by James Gandolfini (pictured), when he was... [continued]
Bush biopic set for pre-election release
‘Mad Max’ quits after a gaffe too far
One of Canada's most senior politicians, Foreign Minister Maxime Bernier (pictured, right), has been forced to resign after leaving classified Nato summit documents at the home of ex-girlfriend Julie Couillard (left), a former Hell's Angels moll with links to the criminal underworld. Bernier, 45, who has been dubbed 'Mad... [continued]
US press falls for Obama’s Love
Never mind Barack Obama, the American press is now falling over itself to heap praise on another African-American force on the campaign trail who, according to the New York Times, is “taller, fitter and cooler” than the presumptive Democratic nominee. Reggie Love is Obama’s 26-year-old... [continued]
Martina serves up artistic offering
Martina Navratilova (pictured), the tennis player who won Wimbledon nine times, has embarked on a new career as a contemporary artist, championing a new form of painting described as 'tennising', which involves hurling paint-covered tennis balls on to blank canvasses. To achieve this challenging new art style, Navratilova, 51,... [continued]
