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Martha Stewart banned from UK
Former jailbird and lifestye guru Martha Stewart had planned to be in London this week- she was to give a talk at the Royal Academy and had meetings set up with leading figures in the fashion industry, including Jasper Conran - but that's all been cancelled because she's just learnt... [continued]
Ballet director talks from the grave
The former artistic director of the Royal Ballet, the late Ross Stretton, has delivered a withering attack from the grave, accusing almost everyone who he worked with at Covent Garden, from the board of directors to the lighting staff, of sabotaging his brief tenure as director six years ago.... [continued]
Vladimir Putin the duck killer
The colossal and disturbing vanity of Vladimir Putin has been given free reign in a Russian Hello-style magazine, Secrets of the Stars, which has devoted an entire,
squirming, sycophantic issue to the former president. The publication, which is littered with photographs of Putin stripped to the waist and striking macho... [continued]
Putin’s young gymnast flame turns heads in Moscow 
In pictures: Putin's pecs
Is it all over for bubonic plagiarist?
Britain's most famous TV psychiatrist, Dr Raj Persaud, will discover today whether he will be struck off the medical register, having been found guilty of dishonesty by the General
Medical Council of plagiarising material for his bestselling book, The Edge of the Couch, and for several articles that appeared under... [continued]
Persaud confesses to book plagiarism
In brief: Narnia wows thousands
The cast of The Chronicles of Narnia: Prince Caspian, Skandar Keynes, Georgie Henley, Anna Popplewell, William Moseley and Ben Barnes (pictured from right to left), attended the movie's premier last night at the 02 arena. It was trumpeted as the biggest film screening ever, shown on Europe’s largest screen (91... [continued]
Last Flickr of hope for Yang is gone
When Jerry Yang’s Yahoo! brought the photo-sharing website Flickr three years ago it looked like the start of a beautiful partnership. But now it’s all over. Having made $35m from
the sale, the company’s founders, Stewart Butterfield and his wife Caterina Fake, have now “vested out”, another example of the... [continued]
Microsoft balks at Yahoo asking price
Mann points finger at ‘Smelly’
Simon Mann, the old Etonian mercenary currently on trial for his involvement in a botched coup to overthrow the president of the oil-rich West African state Equatorial Guinea, tuned
his attention to the London-based, Lebanese businessman Eli Calil yesterday. Mann, who is trying to avoid a hefty jail sentence by... [continued]
Simon Mann points finger at Thatcher
