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Vatican blocks Caroline Kennedy ambassador role
Mystery surrounds a further blow to the political career of Caroline Kennedy. After pulling out of her bid to replace Hillary Clinton as New York senator, and all
talk of her becoming US ambassador to London having evaporated, she was apparently being lined up as the next US ambassador to... [continued]
People: Caroline Kennedy quits Senate bid 
Caroline Kennedy gets the Sarah Palin treatment
Why the French love Hugh Laurie
The thoroughly English actor Hugh Laurie's success as the lead in the American hospital series House M.D. - he's won two Golden Globes for best actor despite occasionally
letting his American accent slip - has surprised many who used to enjoy his performances opposite Stephen Fry in programmes like A... [continued]
People: Kal Penn death - from 'House' to White House
Richard Phillips, Indian Ocean hero
The heroic professionalism of Captain Richard Phillips, the US cargo ship captain who gave himself up to Somali pirates in order to safeguard his crew, has prompted comparisons to
Chesley Sullenberger, the airline pilot who landed a passenger plane on the Hudson river in January, saving all 155 passengers on... [continued]
Fears of an escalation in violence in Indian Ocean
People: Chesley Sullenberger, Hudson river hero
Obama girls get First Puppy
Not since the Watergate scandal has the Washington Post had a scoop like this: Barack Obama and his family have finally chosen the First Puppy and, as widely predicted, it
is a Portuguese water dog. The breed was chosen for the President's daughters Malia, 10, and Sasha, 7, largely because... [continued]
In pictures: Historic First Dogs
Two breeds left in the four-legged White House race
Seth Rogen’s leading ladies not amused
How long before Hollywood’s latest king of comedy, 26-year-old Seth Rogen, runs out of leading ladies? The actress Anna Faris, who stars as the object of his desires
in Observe and Report, is not the first female lead in a Rogen film to express anxiety about the frat-house level of... [continued]
Not funny, Seth: Christopher Goodwin reports from Hollywood
Trailer: Knocked Up
Bob Quick didn’t know the law, says Davis
Bob Quick, the senior police officer in charge of counter-terrorism who had to resign last week after carelessly allowing Downing Street photographers to picture a top secret
document he was carrying into a meeting with the Prime Minister, has been firmly put in his place by David Davis, the former... [continued]
People: Top terror cop Bob Quick resigns
The Mole: Boris Johnson steals credit for Quick's departure
Simon Mann could be returned to UK
Simon Mann, the British mercenary being held at the notorious Black Beach prison in Malabo, Equatorial Guinea, could be repatriated to serve out his 34-year sentence in a British
jail, if Scotland Yard can reach a deal with the authorities in the West African state. Mann, an Old Etonian... [continued]
People: Calil denies coup plot as Mann jailed
In pictures: the descent of Mann
‘Carbuncle victory’ for Prince Charles?
A quarter of a century after Prince Charles made his "monstrous carbuncle" attack on contemporary architecture - he likened the effect of a modernist proposal for the National
Gallery extension in central London to a "monstrous carbuncle on the face of a much-loved and elegant friend" - could he be... [continued]
People: Candy brothers upset Mittal's son
