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David Banda’s grandmother dies
The woman Madonna has to thank for helping her to adopt David Banda, her Malawian son, has reportedly died. Asianati Mwale, David's grandmother, was the one responsible for placing him in the orphanage where the pop star eventually found him and started her long fight to be... [continued]
Fur flies over Pope’s penchant for ermine
He may be a well-known cat lover, but Pope Benedict's attitude towards the stoat is another matter. His fondness for wearing ermine - the white winter coat of the stoat - has landed him in trouble with an Italian animal rights group that wants him to switch... [continued]
Elena Roger wins rave reviews for Edith Piaf musical
A star is reborn. The diminutive Argentinian actress Elena Roger has London at her feet after winning encore after encore and stunning reviews for playing the tragic French singer
Edith Piaf at London's Donmar Warehouse. "She has folded herself into Edith Piaf so perfectly you cannot see... [continued]
Video: La Vie en Rose 
Two divorce lawyers are better than one
The London lawyer Raymond Tooth is nicknamed 'Jaws' because of his fierce reputation. Fiona Shackleton, the other claimant to the title of London's top divorce lawyer, is known as 'The Steel Magnolia'. Now it transpires the two rivals have been fighting it out alongside each other.... [continued]
Russia’s Deripaska eyes ailing Humvee
With right-wing Americans growling once again at Russia after the invasion of Georgia, Arnold Schwarzenegger, the tough Republican governor of California, will be pleased that he has
disposed of his fleet of environmentally unsound Hummers. The firm that makes them may be sold to the Russians, in... [continued]
Deripaska enters the horse breeding world
Former SAS man Col Jim Johnson dies
Colonel Jim Johnson (pictured), a colourful ex-SAS officer who ran small wars at a convenient arm's length distance from the Government, has died at the age of 83. In 1962,
when Harold Macmillan's government was dithering about an Egyptian-inspired coup in Yemen, a former British colony, it... [continued]
Colonel Jim Johnson: the Daily Telegraph's obituary
Black’s son is chip off the old block
Jonathan Black, the 30-year-old son of the fallen media baron, Conrad Black, has escaped going the way of his father - to jail. Black Jnr (pictured behind his father, at his trial last July) has been fined $2,000 by a court in Toronto on motoring offences. He pleaded... [continued]
