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Banksy thwarts art opportunists
Graffiti artist Banksy (pictured here placing one of his own works in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York) is no fool. For some years now, people have been removing his spray-canned efforts from walls, hoardings, bus shelters, etc, in the hope that one day they’d be able... [continued]
Mosley defends his right to enjoy S&M
The disgraced motorsport boss Max Mosley, appearing in the High Court on Monday to sue the News of the World for damages, admitted a 45-year involvement in sado-masochism,
but denied the newspaper's claims that the episode with five call-girls they clandestinely filmed in March was a "sick Nazi orgy". Mosley... [continued]
Mosley survives vote to stay on at FIA 
‘Soulmate’ Madonna named in A-Rod divorce papers
Madonna has been named in divorce papers filed by the wife of Alex Rodriguez, the American baseball player the singer is said to have been enjoying an intimate
friendship with. In papers supporting the legal $275m suit, Rodriguez is accused of being unfaithful and "emotionally abandoning his... [continued]
Americans: material boy meets Material Girl
Guy Ritchie gets real-life fight club role
In brief: Nicole Kidman gives birth
Nicole Kidman, 41, has given birth to her first child, a 6lb 7.5oz baby girl called Sunday Rose, in Nashville, Tennessee. It is her first child with husband Keith Urban; her two children with her previous husband, Tom Cruise, were adopted... Dame Joan Sutherland is in hospital... [continued]
Calil denies coup plot as Mann jailed
Simon Mann, the Old Etonian soldier of fortune who took part in the bodged 2004 coup to overthrow President Obiang, leader of oil-rich Equatorial Guinea, finally
knows his fate. On Monday, in the western African state's capital Malabo, he was sentenced to 34 years in jail. The... [continued]
In pictures: the descent of Mann
Met keen to talk to Mann about Thatcher
Tilda Swinton’s bid to save college’s good name
Actress Tilda Swinton is among those who are enraged about the decision to change the name of her old Cambridge college. From next May, her alma mater, New Hall, founded 53 years ago by Dame Rosemary Murray, will become Murray Edwards College, a move that follows a £30m donation from... [continued]
Gomorra star Giovanni Venosa arrested
Matteo Garrone, director of the prize-winning Italian film Gomorra, which as The First Post reported last month has attracted big audiences in Italy for its
depiction of gang life in Naples, made a big thing of using real people rather than professional actors to play the gang members. Now one... [continued]
How Gomorra captures Italy's mafia on film
Video: Gomorra trailer
The real godfather - behind bars
Cholmondeley trial begins in Nairobi
The trial of Tom Cholmondeley (pictured), the Kenyan landowner accused of shooting dead a poacher on his family’s 58,000-acre estate, begins in Nairobi today. For two
years, Cholmondeley, 40, has been languishing in the Kamiti Maximum Security Prison, where conditions, he claims in an interview in today's... [continued]
Cholmondeley hawks memoirs from Kenyan prison cell
