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FBI find ‘fraudster’ Allen Stanford
Sir Allen Stanford, the tycoon at the centre of an alleged $9.2bn fraud who had gone missing for two days, has been run to ground by the FBI. He was discovered on Thursday in the
Virginia town of Fredericksburg, sitting in the passenger seat of a car apparently owned by... [continued]
People: Where has Sir Allen Stanford gone? 
Jack Straw lends a hand to Jade Goody
No one, not even those who hold the highest office in the land, can avoid being caught up in Jade Goody’s grisly melodrama. On Thursday, the Prime Minister was impelled to utter
words of sympathy to Goody (pictured), who has terminal cancer, after being ambushed by the Sun newspaper at... [continued]
The unpleasant distinction between ‘chic’ and ‘chav’ cancer
In pictures: the Jade Goody show
Zac Posen gets standing ovation at New York Fashion Week
As a native Manhattanite, the designer Zac Posen was keen to make a big noise at New York Fashion Week. And his decision to line up five Steinway grand pianos along the catwalk
guaranteed just that when he showed his autumn collection on Thursday night. Among the crowd were Claire... [continued]
People: Yesterday’s catwalk report
In pictures: New York Fashion Week
Buffini: the tycoon and the rotting burgers
Damon Buffini, the multi-millionaire head of Permira, the London-based private equity group, and an advisor to Gordon Brown on economic matters, has devised an unusual way of showing his staff how fortunate they are to have jobs - by feeding them two-day-old burgers from McDonalds. The tycoon... [continued]
Saks drops Victoria Beckham’s jeans
While Victoria Beckham has received praise for her latest dress designs, which she previewed at the Waldorf Towers hotel in Manhattan on Monday night, not everyone in the fashion
world is happy with the former Spice Girl. According to the New York Post, Saks, the crucially important Fifth Avenue store,... [continued]
In pictures: New York Fashion Week
People: Victoria Beckham shows her stuff at New York Fashion Week
People: Zac Posen gets standing ovation
Freida Pinto and Dev Patel: a love made in ‘Slumdog’ heaven?
The Bollywood actor Anil Kapoor, who plays the quiz-master in Slumdog Millionaire, is under the impression that the on-screen love affair between his two co-stars,
Freida Pinto and Dev Patel (pictured), has become a real life romance. Kapoor, a Bollywood star who has made over 100... [continued]
People: Does Slumdog’s Freida Pinto have a ‘secret’ husband?
Film talk: Slumdog moves into pole position
Argentina gives Bishop Williamson the boot
Richard Williamson (pictured), the British Roman Catholic bishop who has questioned the Holocaust and in doing so caused Pope Benedict XIV no end of
headaches over the past month, has been told he must leave Argentina, where, until recently, he had worked as a director of a seminary near Buenos... [continued]
People: Bishop Williamson sacked by seminary
In brief: Wrestler actor arrested
Scott Siegel, the actor who played a steroids dealer alongside Mickey Rourke (pictured) in the critically acclaimed movie The Wrestler, has been
arrested - for allegedly dealing in illegal steroids. According to court papers, Siegel, 34, was taken into custody after a high-speed police chase on Wednesday evening in Eastchester,... [continued]
The People: Rourke calls Sean Penn a ‘homophobe’
Features: The Wrestler tells a true tale of a ‘sport’ in crisis
People: Row blows up over Obama chimp cartoon
People: Anti-Nazi campaign threatens Kate Winslet’s Oscar hopes
People: No more bets on a Brit for Paul Weller
Matilda will get Heath Ledger’s Oscar
Matilda Ledger, the three-year-old daughter of late Australian actor Heath Ledger, will be the eventual owner of an Academy Award if her father emerges triumphant at
the Oscars for his maniacal performance as The Joker in the Batman movie The Dark Night this Sunday. While his family would accept the... [continued]
Film talk: Variety readers predict big night for Slumdog
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 tries waterboarding
Christopher Hitchens: What's right about America
