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Lakshmi Mittal loses half his £40bn fortune
Even multi-billionaires are feeling the pinch from the great financial meltdown. According to today's London Evening Standard, the biggest single loser is steel magnate Lakshmi
Mittal (pictured), who, according to US magazine Forbes is – or was - the fourth richest man on the planet. He is said to have... [continued]
Oligarch snaps up Safra mansion for record €500 million 
Mike Ashley puts Toon up for sale
Joe Lewis loses $1bn in Bear Stearns collapse
Russia’s Deripaska eyes ailing Humvee
Mikhail Gorbachev returns to politics
Jagger and Lennon attacked in new book
A new book about British youth culture singles out John Lennon (pictured) and (Sir) Mick Jagger as being the most colossal phonies. According to
David Fowler, a Cambridge historian, the duo were not the radicals they appeared to be, but just "capitalists who wanted to get rich". This not altogether... [continued]
Sam Taylor-Wood to direct John Lennon film
New details about John Lennon shooting
Mick Jagger’s lips help pay school fees
In brief: Paris Hilton furthers her presidential campaign with video
Paris Hilton has furthered her attempts to become what she calls the "fake president of the United States" by offering solutions to the nation's financial crisis via an interview
with actor Martin Sheen (pictured with Hilton), who played the commander-in-chief in the long-running TV show The West Wing. In the... [continued]
Paris Hilton interviews Martin Sheen
Queen’s composer attacks Hirst
Sir Peter Maxwell Davies (pictured), who despite his official title as the Queen's Master of Music, and his age - he is 74 - is considered something of a trendy, has
launched a coruscating attack on Damien Hirst, claiming that he is symbolic of an "age of commercial depravity... [continued]
Damien Hirst’s drinking club row
Steel oligarch is secret Hirst buyer
Ozzy Osbourne on writers’ blacklist
Ozzy Osbourne, the apparently brain-dead rock star, has been black-listed by Hollywood screenwriters. His crime? Allegedly refusing to pay the scribblers the going rate for their services for his forthcoming comedy-variety show, The Osbournes: Live and Dangerous, which is hosted by himself and his wife, Sharon (pictured).... [continued]
Le Clezio wins Nobel prize for literature. Qui?
The Nobel prize for literature has been won by 68-year-old French writer Jean-Marie Gustave Le Clezio (pictured). Today’s announcement is likely to enrage the American
literary establishment who are still smarting from remarks made last week by Horace Engdahl, the permanent secretary of the body that chooses the winner,... [continued]
Jean-Marie Gustave Le Clezio: the reading list
Nobel boss slams US writers
Mandelson exacts revenge on Osborne
It's barely a week since Peter Mandelson (pictured) was welcomed back to the Government and the Prince of Darkness has already begun spinning. This time it's not aimed at
his Cabinet colleagues (although that will come, no doubt), but at George Osborne, apparently in retaliation for the shadow chancellor letting... [continued]
Peter Mandelson taken into hospital
Peter Mandelson’s back in town
