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Obama fights to keep his BlackBerry
Although he does not enter the White House until January 20, Barack Obama appears to have already locked horns with the American Secret Service. The issue? Whether or not he gets to
keep his beloved BlackBerry which has been ruled out of bounds on grounds of security and presidential... [continued]
People: Barack Obama crowns his victory by giving his children a puppy 
Is Roger Alton safe at the Indy?
Is Roger Alton's position as editor of the Independent safe? Today, as he announced that 90 jobs - 60 of them editorial posts - are to be lost from his newspaper and its
sister publication, the Independent on Sunday - he gave an alarmingly frank interview to Sky News... [continued]
People: Zac and Jemima Goldsmith in talks to buy the Independent
Big Book: Roger Alton on mountaineering and politics
Carla Bruni and Nicolas Sarkozy come to life as comic characters
The relationship between President Nicolas Sarkozy and his wife Carla Bruni (pictured) has been laid bare in a new 'investigative comic book' about the
couple's life in the Elysee Palace. Carla et Carlito depicts the First Lady as the power behind the throne with a mission to remould France according... [continued]
People: Carla Bruni comes to the aid of terrorist
Rothschild friendly with Gaddafi’s son
Nat Rothschild, the hot-shot hedge fund manager and scion of the famous banking dynasty, certainly has an eclectic group of friends and associates. Not content with being in business
with the Russian tycoon Oleg Deripaska (who is not allowed to enter the US for unspecified reasons), he is now... [continued]
People: Osborne drawn into Deripaska row
Rachel Johnson wins Bad Sex award
Rachel Johnson (pictured), sister of the London mayor Boris Johnson, has won the Literary Review magazine's Bad Sex in Fiction Awards, held on Monday night at the In & Out club in London. In doing so she beat off a host of authors, among them Tony Blair's former... [continued]
In Town: Jourdan Dunn crowned Model of Year
Move over Naomi Campbell... Jourdan Dunn, an 18-year-old who was discovered wandering around the high street shop Primark a year ago, was crowned the Model of Year
at the British Fashion awards in London on Tuesday night. Dunn is photographed with the actor Christian Slater who presented her award.... [continued]
In Town Last Night: British Fashion Awards
In brief: James Jagger lands film role
James Jagger (pictured), son of Rolling Stone Sir Mick Jagger and former Texan model Jerry Hall, has landed a part in a biopic about the Italian composer, Vivaldi. The 23-year-old will play Alessandro Grimani, one of the composer's pupils, in the movie Vivaldi - The Red Priest………… A cartoon and... [continued]
Motion warns future laureates about the job
Andrew Motion (pictured) ends his ten years as Poet Laureate in May, but many of his potential successors, among them Simon Armitage and Wendy
Cope, could well be frightend off by Motion's account of the job in today's Guardian. "Be warned," he tells those interesting in submitting a CV,... [continued]
People: Andrew Motion moans about the Queen
