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Tremain takes the Orange Prize
Rose Tremain has won the Orange Prize for women’s fiction for The Road Home, her tale of an immigrant from eastern Europe coming to terms with life in London. Tremain had
been the hot favourite to win - Ladbrokes stopped taking bets on Tuesday after a run... [continued]
Orange judges admit Lily was dropped 
Roman and Daria wow Basel Art Fair
Proof that Roman Abramovich is a little more interested in contemporary art than in Chelsea Football Club these days – he is still trying to find someone to agree to take on the
manager's job – was on offer at the Basel Art Fair yesterday, where the Russian tycoon was... [continued]
What Daria did next: model turns gallerist
Bruni reveals bedroom spat with minister
A book rushed out to exploit the public fascination with French President Nicolas Sarkozy and his new wife, Carla Bruni, reveals how the former supermodel taunted
one of France’s most senior female politicians, justice minister Rachida Dati, for, apparently, failing to get her husband into bed.... [continued]
Crooning Carla sings of her love for Nicolas on new album
Polanski victim wants him to be forgiven
For 30 years the Oscar-winning director Roman Polanski has had to stay away from America for fear that he would be arrested for unlawfully having sex with a 13-year-old girl. However
his victim, Samantha Geimer, now feels the matter should be forgotten. Geimer, 45 and a... [continued]
Polanski film makes waves at Sundance
How fugitive Roman Polanski finally slipped up
Sharon Tate murderer Susan Atkins dies
Lord Snowdon falls for a countess
The Earl of Snowdon’s voracious sexual appetite has been amply revealed in a new autobiography, but anyone who thinks that, at the age of 78, he has eased up in that department would
be very mistaken. His latest love Marjorie Wallace (pictured above with Snowdon), the founder... [continued]
Snowdon urged to embrace ‘love child’
Prince takes on ‘appalling waxworks’
The Prince of Wales is not the Chinese government’s favourite person – he once described its leaders as "a group of appalling old waxworks". However, that has not stopped him
attempting to intervene in a highly controversial planning dispute in the country’s capital, Beijing. The Prince... [continued]
Trads can’t break into best new buildings
In Brief: Ferrari boss wants Mosley out
Max Mosley (pictured) may have won a resounding vote of confidence on Tuesday to remain president of FIA, Formula 1’s governing body, but Luca di Montezemolo, the head of Ferrari, still wants him to resign, feeling that the lurid headlines about his sado-masochistic orgy with five... [continued]
Condi hails Obama
One of the first to congratulate Barack Obama on winning the Democratic nomination was Republican Condoleezza Rice who, for the moment at least, is the highest
ranking African-American in the White House. Putting aside political loyalties, the Secretary of State was clearly thrilled at his achievement. "The United States... [continued]
Bush biopic set for pre-election release
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