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Michel Houellebecq jeered at Locarno
Michel Houellebecq (pictured), the enfant terrible of French literature, is getting his come-uppance. His first outing as a film director has been treated with ridicule and
incredulity. Hailed by some in France as a genius and by others as an Islamophobe, a sex-obsessed drunkard and a male... [continued]
Ceccaldi slates 'evil son' Houllebecq 
Boris and Prezza hit turbulence at Gatwick
Boris Johnson, the forthright Mayor of London, has called the managers of Gatwick airport "chimpanzees" after his luggage went missing for hours when he and his family returned from a week's holiday in Turkey recently. "We stood in hell," the mayor says of his long wait in... [continued]
Kate Moss fails to make fashion poll as Agyness Deyn takes top spot
The British supermodel Kate Moss may finally be going out of fashion. The 34-year-old, responsible for introducing the waif-like "heroin chic" look in the early 1990s, has been
dumped from Grazia magazine's list of the world's 10 best-dressed women. Last year she was fifth and the year... [continued]
Rosie deposes Agyness at Burberry
Marc Quinn creates golden Moss
British diving enemies will have to make up
After falling out spectacularly following their poor performance in the synchronised diving in Beijing, no one would be surprised if the 14-year-old British prodigy Tom Daley
(pictured) and his 26-year-old partner Blake Aldridge chose never to dive together again. But Britain's diving chief, the Australian Steve Foley, believes
the defeated... [continued]
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BBC man Sir Bill Cotton dies aged 80
Sir Bill Cotton, the man behind the success of BBC light entertainment from the 1960s to the 1980s who has died at the age of 80, never overcame the problems of being confused with his father, the band leader Billy Cotton. Even when he had risen to... [continued]
Tuscan restaurateur claims to have turned away Abramovich
A Tuscan mystery. David Vaiani, owner of the swanky Bistrot restaurant in the Italian resort of Forte dei Marmi, has been telling reporters of how he turned away Roman
Abramovich and a party including his girlfriend Daria Zhukova, because his restaurant was full and the Russian had... [continued]
Takeover in Tuscany - Russia style
Meet Dasha Zhukova, internet mogul
In brief: Pietersen barred from Mahiki
W G Grace might have gone home for an early night, or to count his money. But Kevin Pietersen, the new England cricket captain, went straight out on the town to celebrate victory over South Africa at The Oval. With his wife, Jessica Taylor, singer with Liberty... [continued]
