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Steel oligarch is secret Hirst buyer
One of the anonymous buyers at the recent, record-breaking Damien Hirst auction at Sotheby’s has been revealed as Viktor Pinchuk, the Ukrainian steel billionaire.
Pinchuk owned up to his participation in the Hirst auction yesterday, in an interview outside his home in Kiev: "Yes, I bought at the recent Hirst... [continued]
Damien Hirst's drinking club row 
What the critics say about Damien Hirst
Damien Hirst's Sotheby's auction in pictures
Jopling and Taylor-Wood to divorce
PJ O’Rourke laughs off cancer
Given the current turmoil in the markets, not to mention the panic among Americans, many must be wondering what take PJ O'Rourke (pictured), the right-wing free-market
ideologue and satirist, has on events. These will no doubt come soon enough, but for now his main pre-occupation is a personal battle with... [continued]
Last of the Kennedy boys
PJ O'Rourke's article in Los Angeles Times
John Galliano goes tribal on the catwalk in Paris
John Galliano went tribal at his Paris Fashion Week show for Christian Dior yesterday, with an African-inspired collection full of cowrie-shell studded bustiers,
sculptural head-dresses and stilettos shaped like fertility goddesses. Short and sexy was also a recurring theme, with mid-thigh minis and see-through dresses - a far cry from... [continued]
In pictures: Paris Fashion Week
In pictures: Milan Fashion Week
In pictures: London Fashion week
In pictures: New York Fashion Week
Ryan Giggs battles with Nobel winner
Ryan Giggs, the Manchester United footballer, has been pitched against the Nobel prize-winning Burmese opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi (pictured) in a
battle to win the freedom of Salford, the highest honour the Lancashire town can bestow. The clash, unlooked-for by either candidate, follows a move... [continued]
The Burma File
Burma extends Suu Kyi arrest
Zidane caught up in call girl trial
The names of a number of France's biggest stars, among them Alain Delon, Gerard Depardieu and Zinedine Zidane (pictured), are likely to crop up in the trial of a Swiss-based madame, Maria Antoniatta Dos Reis Furtado, a 37-year-old former stripper and model who has been accused of drug offences, blackmail,... [continued]
In brief: Brideshead Revisited premiere
The cast of the big-screen adapatation of Evelyn Waugh's classic novel Brideshead Revisited gathered at the Bluebell restaurant in Chelsea yesterday before heading off to the West End for
the film's premiere. The movie, which features Emma Thompson, Matthew Goode, Hayley Atwell and Ben Whishaw (pictured left to
right),... [continued]
Brideshead goes down badly in US
Mortimer attacks Hollywood Brideshead
Jimmy Page gets Led Zep back in the studio
Rattle plays down orchestra revolt
OJ Simpson goes on trial for robbery
OJ Simpson has a bad day in court
Mikhail Gorbachev returns to politics
In a move that will delight many old Cold War warriors, but more importantly critics of Vladimir Putin, Mikhail Gorbachev (pictured) is to return to Russian
politics. The author of Glasnost and Perestroika, who is now 77, has announced that he and business partner Alexander Lebedev, a former ex-KGB officer... [continued]
Gorbachev warns of US aggression
Grandmaster makes a move on the Kremlin
Vladimir Putin the duck killer
