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Salman Rushdie misses out on Booker
Salman Rushdie has failed to make the Man Booker Prize shortlist, despite being widely tipped to win the £50,000 award for his novel The Enchantress of Florence. Among the
six hopefuls are two first-time novelists, Aravind Adiga, for The White Tiger, who at 35 is the youngest... [continued]
Synopses of all six novels 
Coppers 'locked Rushdie in cupboard'
Barack Obama’s pastor Wright has affair
Jeremiah Wright, the firebrand pastor and former intimate of Barack Obama – the pair fell out when footage of Wright emerged damning America – is in the news again. On the front page
of today's New York Post, he is accused of having an affair with one... [continued]
Obama embarrassed by preacher
US election coverage: Obama accepts Democrat nomination
Anna Wintour swaps fashion for Flushing Meadows
The devil wears Nike! Now we know what drove Roger Federer to thrash Andy Murray in double-quick time in the US Open final last night - he had to finish quickly so
that his number one fan, Anna Wintour, could leave Flushing Meadows in time to get back to New... [continued]
The Sports Pages
New York warms to Andy Murray
In pictures: Andy Murray comes of age
OJ Simpson goes on trial for robbery
O J Simpson (pictured), the former US football star who was accused and controversially acquitted in 1995 of murdering his ex-wife Nicole Brown Simpson and
her friend Ron Goldman, is set to keep America gripped with his latest brush with the law - he went on trial... [continued]
OJ's former agent gets in on the act
Spielberg fights Hitchcock claim
Steven Spielberg (pictured) is to be forced to defend a legal action which claims that his film Disturbia, released last year, was little more than a remake of Alfred Hitchcock's classic 1954 Rear Window, a fact that was unacknowledged at the time. The legal suit, which was... [continued]
Fans strike back over Harry Potter delay
Alan Horn, the president of Warner Bros, is paying dearly for his decision to delay the release of the latest Harry Potter movie, which was originally meant to be in the cinemas in
November but is now coming out in July 2009. The poor executive has been... [continued]
JK Rowling forces Trollope out
Victoria Beckham’s designer debut confounds New York fashionistas
Victoria Beckham (pictured, left, with Jennifer Lopez at Marc Jacobs' show) has surprised the cynics after unveiling her first fashion collection at
New York Fashion Week. The capsule collection of just 10 styles is based on Posh Spice's own personal style - and appears inspired by at least... [continued]
In pictures: New York Fashion Week
Lindsay Lohan and Sam Ronson go public at New York Fashion Week
In brief: Guy Ritchie rocks box office
When Guy Ritchie enlisted the support of his wife Madonna last week at the premiere of his latest gangster caper movie, RocknRolla (pictured), many
were quick to say it was the action of a desperate man who thought he had a turkey on his hands. However, against... [continued]
Madonna gives Guy Ritchie support on red carpet
Tearful Rowling defends Harry in court
No flashbacks for Daniel Craig in ageing actor role
Heather Mills to write a novel
Heather Mills (pictured), the ex-wife of Sir Paul McCartney, has been vilified for various reasons, not least her inability to understand the difference
between fantasy and fact. But perhaps this might help her in her latest venture: she has, according to a report in the Daily Mail,... [continued]
Heather Mills was 'explosive', says divorce judge
