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Thursday February 19, 2009

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Where has Sir Allen Stanford gone?

Whether Texan billionaire Sir Allen Stanford (pictured) is guilty or not of an alleged $9.2bn fraud, he certainly isn’t behaving like an innocent man. Having been charged by the US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) with a "massive fraud based on false promises", the authorities have not been able to... [continued]

Sir Allen Stanford

‘Weekends together’ for Mills and Jowell

When Labour culture minister Tessa Jowell's husband, David Mills, was sentenced to four-and-a-half-years’ jail on Tuesday for taking a $600,000 bribe from the Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi, she said: "This is a terrible blow to David and, although we are separated, I have never doubted his innocence." But questions... [continued]

Duffy triumphs as Coldplay leave the Brits empty-handed

Welsh singer-songwriter Duffy, virtually unknown a year ago, cemented her title as the new queen of British pop last night, winning three of the key prizes at the Brit awards, held at the Earls Court arena in London. The 24-year-old, who released her first album, Rockferry, last... [continued]

Duffy performs at the Brits at London's Earls Court

In brief: Damien Hirst has gun to his head

The Spanish artist Eugenio Merino has caused controversy by showing a work of art that features Damien Hirst pointing a gun at himself and blowing his brains out (pictured) . Merino, who is showing 4 the Love of Go(l)d, a pun on the artist's own (as yet unsold) £50m diamond-studded... [continued]

Damien Hirst by Spanish artist Eugenio Moreno

Christopher Hitchens duffed up in Beirut

Not so long after he chose to see what waterboarding felt like for a Vanity Fair feature, Christopher Hitchens has been in the wars again. Last Saturday - Valentine's Day - Hitchens was set upon and beaten up by a gang of skinheads in a smart shopping district of Beirut.... [continued]

Christopher Hitchens

‘Heavy’ Heidi and Weinstein attend New York Fashion Week

The heavy brigade was in town for New York Fashion Week yesterday - the big-time Hollywood producer Harvey Weinstein and the model Heidi Klum, still smarting from being dubbed "simply too heavy" for the catwalk by Karl Lagerfeld last week. Weinstein was attending the unveiling of his English wife... [continued]

Left: Georgina Chapman with one of her Marchesa designs; right: Heidi Klum at the Michael Kors show

Madonna and Ritchie hearing to be public

When Madonna and the British film director Guy Ritchie got a 'quickie' divorce last year few details emerged about their private life because the legal discussions were carried out behind closed doors. However, according to the London Evening Standard, this will all change when the... [continued]

Row blows up over Obama chimp cartoon

A storm has blown up over a cartoon published in the New York Post - proprietor: Rupert Murdoch – which, according to its detractors, could be seen to portray President Barack Obama as an ape. The offending item (pictured) links two events together - the shooting by Connecticut police on... [continued]

New York Post cartoon accused of racism

UBS boss Peter Kurer reveals all to IRS

When Peter Kurer (pictured), the chairman of the Swiss bank UBS, announced today that he was settling the long-running tax evasion dispute with the US Internal Revenue Service (IRS), many of the bank's secret account holders must have breathed a collective sigh of relief. But that will have been short-lived... [continued]

UBS chairman Peter Kurer

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