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Queen’s Berlusconi putdown hits YouTube
The Queen has become the latest star of the internet after footage of her chastising Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi was posted on YouTube. In the footage (see below), which was posted on the Italian version of the video-sharing website and subsequently went viral, the Queen is seen to... [continued]
Malawi court refuses Madonna adoption
Madonna's hopes of adding yet another child to her growing family have been dealt a major blow today after a Malawian judge refused the singer permission to adopt four-year-old
Chifundo "Mercy" James. The 50-year-old pop star arrived in Malawi earlier this week accompanied by her eldest daughter Lourdes... [continued]
People: Madonna faces legal challenge over adoption 
People: Madonna takes David Banda to meet his father
Pros and Cons: celebrities adopting Third World babies
Michelle and Carla finally meet
Michelle Obama and Carla Bruni came face-to-face today in Strasbourg, sending the paparazzi into a frenzy and fashion journalists into overdrive. As their husbands
met ahead of the Nato summit, the US First Lady of fashion met her French counterpart on the steps of Strasbourg's Rohan Palace. Carla Bruni... [continued]
People: 'Yes you can', Michelle Obama tells London schoolgirls
In pictures: Obama in London
Boris slammed over London’s snow day
Has the moment Boris Johnson's critics have been waiting for finally arrived? The London Mayor lost his cool and stormed out of a House of Commons inquiry yesterday as MPs quizzed him over the apparent collapse of London's transport infrastructure after the heavy snow in February. He... [continued]
Winnie Mandela poised for comeback
Winnie Madikizela-Mandela, the 'Mother of the Nation', is making a return to South African public life. Since 2003, when she was found guilty of multiple counts of fraud and theft
relating to a funeral fund, Madikizela-Mandela has been in the political wilderness, with a suspended prison sentence hanging over her.... [continued]
South Africa sickened by Zuma's Mandela kidnap
Aids epidemic is Mbeki's legacy to SA
Jacob Zuma unzipped - a cartoon too far
Whitechapel Gallery celebrates its reopening with Guernica
The Whitechapel Gallery in east London celebrated its reopening after two year of work and £13.5m last night. The undisputed star of the new space - extended by knocking through into the adjacent
Whitechapel public library - was a life-size mural of Pablo Picasso's famous painting Guernica which usually hangs... [continued]
In Town Last Night: Whitechapel Gallery party
Floethe hits back over Wolff scandal
When Victoria Floethe, an attractive 28-year-old journalist from Atlanta, was caught having what she describes as "a torrid office affair" with 55-year-old Vanity Fair
writer Michael Wolff (pictured), it spelled the end of Wolff's marriage to Alison Anthoine and made Floethe the talk of New York. A few... [continued]
Rupert Murdoch takes another swipe at Wolff
Kate Moss opens Topshop USA as Philip Green takes on New York
Seven months late, Sir Philip Green finally opened his first American branch of Topshop on Thursday. The avalanche of hype, culminating in a star-studded party at the Balthazar
bistro, had the desired effect - a queue of young New Yorkers round the block, eager to be the first into the... [continued]
People: Kate Moss flies out for Topshop NY
Toast of Broadway - or just toast?
Eriksson eyes return to UK after Mexico axe
Former England football manager and tabloid favourite Sven-Goran Eriksson is apparently angling for a move back to England after his ill-starred adventure as boss of Mexico came to
an abrupt end after defeat to Honduras this week. Undeterred by his turbulent five-year stint as England manager followed by a... [continued]
The Obama White House: Obama takes on the Mexican drugs cartels
People: Dell'Olio pasta row
Ruby Walsh goes for a National hat-trick
Forty horses go under starter's orders at Aintree for the Grand National on Saturday. Will jockey Ruby Walsh become the first man for more than 30 years to record a hat-trick of
Aintree titles, or can Tony McCoy, the most prolific jump jockey of all time,... [continued]
Picture Past: Red rum's third National win
Withnail & Kate: Sadie ‘plans gift for Moss’
Having just missed out on buying the farmhouse where the cult film Withnail & I was set, supermodel Kate Moss may be about to get a small souvenir of the 1987 movie,
thanks to her friend Sadie Frost. Actress Frost was among the visitors to a... [continued]
Kate Moss flies out for Topshop's New York launch
