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Warren Buffett’s bank deal pays off
You have to hand it to Warren Buffett (pictured) - he knows how to make money even in the middle of a financial crisis he himself has called America's "economic Pearl
Harbour". Within hours of announcing his $5bn stake in Goldman Sachs on Wednesday, the great investor - or the... [continued]
Buffett buys stake in Goldman Sachs 
Buffett becomes world’s richest man
First presidential debate is back on
Banksy KOs auction of his street works
The graffiti artist Banksy may have nullified a multi-million pound sale of his works which is being held (or not, as the case may be) in London this Saturday by the auction house
Lyon & Turnbull. As reported here on Tuesday, L&T were hoping to flog off more than... [continued]
Damien Hirst’s drinking club row
People: Banksy thwarts art opportunists
People: Ken cashes in on Banksy graffiti
Hollywood hero Paul Newman dies
Paul Newman, whose piercing blue eyes and handsome looks lit up some of the best films of the past half-century, has died of cancer at the age of 83. A spokesman for the actor said
he was surrounded by family and friends when he died on Friday at his farmhouse... [continued]
People: Paul Newman ‘dying of lung cancer’
Joerg Haider wants to be chancellor
Joerg Haider (pictured), the ultra-right politician who turned Austria into an international pariah less than a decade ago because of his sympathetic views about Nazi
Germany is set to stage a comeback in his country's elections at the weekend. When he was part of the Austrian government in 1999, Haider... [continued]
Europe’s modern Fascists
Conrad Black recounts his career highlights to prisoners
Ambanis fight £1bn defamation lawsuit
The bitter and long-running feud between the Indian industrialist brothers Mukesh (pictured right) and Anil Ambani – multi-billionaires who are ranked the
fifth and sixth richest people on the planet – is now turning really nasty. In the latest twist, Anil, who in recent weeks has been linked with the... [continued]
India gets star role in Hollywood deal
In Town Last Night: Agent Provocateur raises the temperature
Racy lingerie house Agent Provocateur launched their latest line of kinky undies at west London club Dolce last night with a decadent catwalk show and after party. Model-about-town Daisy
Lowe (above) was one of the buxom lovelies walking the runway, while old-hand and former face of the label Kate Moss... [continued]
More party pictures
In Brief: Busta Rhymes airport drama
American rapper Busta Rhymes (pictured) was held for 12 hours at Heathrow on Thursday by British immigration officials who at one point tried to put him on a plane to
Amsterdam. Rhymes, who flew in to appear at the Albert Hall tonight, was detained because of his criminal record, having... [continued]
Nice rhymes, shame about the machete
Gwyneth Paltrow blasted for endorsing fur
Jimmy Page gets Led Zep back in the studio
Shaffer moans about Harry Potter fans
McCartney gig prompts death threats
Robert Wagner wanted to kill Warren Beatty
Warren Beatty (pictured), the Hollywood film star and notorious Lothario, came close to being assassinated by fellow actor Robert Wagner after he began an
affair with his wife Natalie Wood in 1961. The revelation comes in Wagner's autobiography, Pieces of My Heart, and recalls the time when Beatty was having... [continued]
Robert Wagner tells of Natalie Wood’s death
Clubs snub Governor General Bryce
When Quentin Bryce (pictured), Australia's first ever female Governor-General, visited the Queen last week every courtesy was extended to her – as reported here she was even treated to an Aussie-style barbecue at Balmoral. However, in her own country, where she is Her Majesty's representative, she is not being accorded... [continued]
Matthew Williamson bows out of Pucci with final Milan collection
Matthew Williamson said addio to Pucci on Thursday night, as his three-year-contract came to an end amid rumours that bosses at the 60-year-old label had become increasingly
unhappy with the British designer’s attitude. He has been notably absent from the Florence headquarters recently, preferring to spend his time expanding... [continued]
In pictures: Milan Fashion Week
In pictures: London Fashion Week
In pictures: New York Fashion Week
