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Jade Goody dies from cancer, aged 27
Sunday, March 22: Jade Goody is dead. Too late to make the covers of the Sunday tabloids that did so much to create her celebrity, the reality television star passed away between 3.0
am and 4.0 am today at her home in Upshire, Essex. Her mother Jackiey Budden, who was... [continued]
In pictures: Jade Goody’s life 
Will Self: count me out of the tawdry Jade Goody freak show
Brendan O'Neill: How Jade Goody has the wrong sort of cancer
American Psycho: How Jade Goody became the new Princess Diana
Sarah Gronert ignites tennis gender row
Ranked 619 in the world, tennis player Sarah Gronert is yet to make much of an impression on the main WTA tour. But, in the lower reaches of the professional game, the 22-year-old German has been causing a stir. Gronert was born with both... [continued]
Natasha Richardson’s family attend Broadway tributes to dead actress
Natasha Richardson's husband Liam Neeson and her mother Vanessa Redgrave went to Broadway last night to attend the dimming of the theatre lights in
tribute to the actress who died on Wednesday evening from a brain injury she suffered while skiing in Canada on Monday. Only 24 hours after... [continued]
People: 'Love Actually' haunts Liam Neeson
In pictures: Natasha and the Redgrave dynasty
Daria Zhukova Garage party defies recession
Dasha Zhukova, girlfriend of the Russian billionaire Roman Abramovich, is determined not to let the financial crisis get in the way of a good party. On Thursday night, she threw open
the doors of The Garage, the Moscow arts centre she founded last year, for a bash to celebrate the... [continued]
Dasha Zhukova takes on 'Pop' magazine
Dasha opens the doors to her Garage
Jeremy Paxman needed help for book
Although Jeremy Paxman’s latest hit book, The Victorians, is said to be written by him - at least on the cover – this, it transpires, is not the total truth. It seems the
BBC Newsnight presenter was responsible only for the introduction, handing over the rest to a young Irish... [continued]
People: Jeremy Paxman and Michael Howard: the rematch
Barack Obama makes ‘Special Olympics’ gaffe on Jay Leno show
Barack Obama has been chided in recent weeks for his reliance on the teleprompter, but a seriously non-PC slip during his appearance on Jay Leno’s The Tonight
Show on Thursday suggests why he needs it. In the course of the hour-long, light-hearted chatathon, the President made a gaffe about the... [continued]
People: Obama to appear on Jay Leno show
In pictures: Historic First Dogs
George Bush’s memoirs underway
Any hopes Americans might have had of consigning George W Bush (pictured) to distant memory are to be dashed. For the President claims he is 30,000 words into a memoir about
his two terms in office which he intends using to justify some of his most controversial and unpopular policy... [continued]
People: Laura Bush biography sets no hearts racing
Julianne Moore as Hillary Clinton in Special Relationship movie
The makers of a film that sets out to explore the relationship between Tony Blair and Bill Clinton during the period of the Monica Lewinsky scandal - called
Special Relationship - have finally announced the casting decisions for some of the key roles. And there are some unexpected names on... [continued]
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Prince Ali aims to rule Afghanistan
The great grandson of Afghanistan's legendary Iron Amir – a brute who once forced an adulterous man to eat his mistress – has joined the race to be the country's next president. In his first interview for a British newspaper since accepting the nomination last month, Prince Abdul Ali Seraj,... [continued]
Obamas open White House kitchen garden
Let them reap what they sow: Michelle Obama is today presiding over the groundbreaking ceremony for a White House kitchen garden. She, the president and their children, Sasha and Malia will all be involved in tending the garden which is slated to produce 55 kinds of vegetables, including... [continued]
