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Scarlett swaps emails with Obama
Actress Scarlett Johansson has revealed that she regularly exchanges emails with presidential candidate Barack Obama and that she is planning to devote all of her
considerable energy to getting him elected - even promising, tantalisingly, to cold-call wavering voters. In an interview with the Politico website, she... [continued]
Watch Scarlett's video for Barack 
Max Hastings ‘banned’ from Afghanistan
Is Sir Max Hastings, the distinguished war correspondent and former editor of the Daily Telegraph, being prevented from visiting the battlefields of Afghanistan by Defence Secretary Des Browne? He thinks so. In a column in yesterday's Daily Mail, Hastings, who has reported conflicts in the Falkland... [continued]
Paul Newman ‘doing nicely’
Good news. It appears that reports about Paul Newman's illness – the Los Angeles Times claimed yesterday that he had been diagnosed with terminal lung cancer – may have been
wide of the mark. While his spokesman stops short of denying that the 83-year-old actor is receiving... [continued]
Paul Newman reportedly 'dying of lung cancer'
Prince Jefri sidesteps court to avoid jail
The bitter High Court battle between the Sultan of Brunei and his exiled brother Prince Jefri, who is accused of embezzling £8 billion from public funds during his 13-year stint as his country's Finance Minister, looks likely to end today with the prince receiving a two-year prison... [continued]
Members launch bid to save Colony Club
Three months ago Michel Wojas announced that he was standing down as the manager of the Colony Room Club, one of the last remnants of rackety, bohemian life left in London's Soho. Members, among them Lucien Freud and Damien Hirst, were saddened by the news, but this... [continued]
Bond curse claims star victim as Daniel Craig injured at Pinewood
The latest James Bond film, Quantum of Solace, has suffered a fair degree of misfortune - car prangs, injured stuntmen, etc. Now it's star turn, Daniel Craig (pictured on
set with co-star Olga Kurylenko), has been injured - on Tuesday he was taken to hospital after slicing off... [continued]
Bond shaken and stirred by Chilean mayor
Ukrainian Kurylenko wins Bond girl role
Flowers and Jones sell Clinton sex tales
With Hillary Clinton's presidential bid fading to a memory, and speculation rising that she and her husband might be heading for the divorce lawyers - see today's report on The
First Post - two of Bill's former "lovers" have decided to come forward and air intimate details... [continued]
Does Hillary's White House dream end at the divorce courts?
US election: latest news, gossip and analysis
In brief: McCain picks the wrong tune
John McCain's team have chosen Chuck Berry's 1958 rock 'n' roll classic Johnny B Goode as it's campaign song. However, already it has proved an own
goal as Berry, 81, has announced his support for rival Barack Obama. The republican had to drop an earlier choice, Abba's Take A Chance... [continued]
US election: latest news, gossip and analysis
Hugh F-W declares war on Tesco broilers
