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Ledger death: mystery of calls to Mary-Kate
Police investigating the death of Heath Ledger have confirmed that the masseuse who found his body at his Manhattan apartment on Tuesday has changed her story. Diana
Wolozin, 40, claimed she called the actress Mary-Kate Olsen twice before calling an ambulance. But when police checked phone records, they found Wolozin... [continued]
Tributes pour in for Heath Ledger 
Tennis’s Ali causes rumble in Melbourne
The shock defeat of favourite Roger Federer in the Australian Open today has thrown the focus on the little-known Frenchman Jo-Wilfried Tsonga, who now takes on
Novak Djokovic - Federer's Serbian conqueror - in Sunday's final. Tsonga (right) is the newly dubbed Muhammad Ali of tennis. "I want to... [continued]
Sport in Pictures: Australian Open
Djokovic sings I Will Survive
Djokovic's impressions of his rivals
Bond title revealed, but is it 007 or Harry Potter?
The next James Bond film, previously known only as Bond 22, now has a title. It will be called Quantum of Solace, after a little known short story published by 007 creator Ian
Fleming in 1960. Cynics are already claiming it sounds more like a Harry Potter title than a... [continued]
Olga Kurylenko wins Bond girl role
Trailer: St Trinian's
Gates calls for new kind of capitalism
Microsoft founder Bill Gates has turned his attention to the world's poor with a call for a new kind of capitalism to help raise them out of poverty. In his final speech to the World Economic Forum in Davos before retiring as head of the computer software giant to... [continued]
Balls beef up Gordon Brown’s Cabinet
Yvette Cooper's promotion from housing minister to chief secretary to the Treasury in the wake of Peter Hain's resignation has established the first husband and wife
team in a British Cabinet. Cooper is married to children's secretary Ed Balls, Gordon Brown's closest political ally. Cooper (left) will... [continued]
The Mole: Hain had to resign - and he won't be missed
Nick Leeson loses his ‘rogue’ crown
One man whose reputation has been dented by the discovery of a €4.9bn fraud at the Societe Generale bank is Nick Leeson, who has lost his crown as the world's number one rogue
trader. Yesterday Leeson's agent was doing his best to keep his client's value up, running an auction... [continued]
SocGen's risk officer
Employee who cost French bank €4.9bn
Fayed ‘pressured’ Di’s amnesiac bodyguard
Princess Diana's bodyguard, Trevor Rees, the only survivor of the 1997 car crash that killed Diana, Dodi Fayed and their driver Henri
Paul, has said he felt under pressure from Mohamed Fayed to remember events that may or may not have happened. At the London inquest into... [continued]
Diana groupies maintain their vigil
In Town Last Night: Marc Quinn at the White Cube
Marc Quinn (above left) - famed for his Alison Lapper Pregnant sculpture in Trafalgar Square and that unforgettable frozen blood head - launched his new show Evolution at Jay
Jopling's (above right) White Cube gallery last night. Attending were fellow artists including Dinos Chapman, as well as enthusiasts David Furnish,... [continued]
More pictures
Alan Bennett: abolish public schools
The award-winning playwright Alan Bennett has called for the abolition of public schools. The writer, whose West End play The History Boys tells the story of a group of
Yorkshire grammar school boys trying to get into Oxford and Cambridge, said, "I think quite plainly the... [continued]
Film review: The History Boys
Trailer: The History Boys
Scarlett Johansson sings the hits
Actress Scarlett Johansson is to launch herself as a singer, with a debut album featuring covers of songs by idiosyncratic balladeer Tom Waits. Johansson, star of
Lost in Translation and Girl with a Pearl Earring, collaborated with Yeah Yeah Yeahs guitarist Nick Zinner, Celebration's Sean Antanaitis and... [continued]
Tributes pour in for Heath Ledger
