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Van Hoogstraten walks free from jail
The notorious British property tycoon Nicholas van Hoogstraten, arrested last week in Harare on currency and pornography charges, was released from custody yesterday on the orders of
the Zimbabwe High Court, amid speculation that he may have fallen out with his old friend President Robert Mugabe. After... [continued]
Moses Moyo - The First Post's man in Harare 
Tina Brown enters Hall of Fame
The controversial British journalist Tina Brown, known for putting a naked, pregnant Demi Moore on the cover of Vanity Fair and for putting many a writer's
nose out of joint when she took over the venerable New Yorker from editor Bob Gottlieb, will be inducted into the... [continued]
The Diana Chronicles - all on one page
Julie’s secret Indian wedding
Actress Julie Christie, in the spotlight again with the film Away From Her after turning her back on Hollywood in the 1970s, has reportedly married her long-term partner,
Guardian journalist Duncan Campbell. According to her brother, Clive, who lives not far from her farmhouse in Montgomery, mid-Wales, the couple married... [continued]
Meet the husband
See trailer for Away From Her
Jerome Kerviel goes from zero to hero
Is Societe Generale's Jerome Kerviel a rogue trader or folk hero? In less than a week Kerviel has gone from being a quiet backroom trader on a modest salary to being saluted around
the world as 'the Che Guevera of Finance'. Since he was accused of losing... [continued]
Employee who cost bank billions
In Brief: Madonna is the cash queen
Madonna has been named the highest-earning woman in pop, topping Forbes magazine's first-ever Cash Queens of Music List after she earned £36.2m between June 2006 and June
2007. Barbra Streisand came second with £30.1m while Celine Dion was ranked third, at £22.6m... Author JK Rowling has revealed... [continued]
Heath Ledger may have died of heart attack
Michael Jackson may go to Grammys - or is it a stunt?
Rumours are swirling in Los Angeles that Michael Jackson will make an appearance at the Grammys on February 10, two days before the release of his 25th anniversary 'remake' of
Thriller, still pop's biggest selling album ever, having sold more than 104m copies worldwide over a quarter... [continued]
See Thriller video
Fayed approved doomed exit plan
Mohamed Fayed personally approved the Ritz Hotel ‘exit plan’ that resulted in the deaths of his son Dodi and Princess Diana in Paris. Kes
Wingfield, one of one of two bodyguards assigned to the couple, told a High Court jury that he and his colleague Trevor Rees... [continued]
Fayed 'pressured' amnesiac bodyguard
Diana groupies maintain their vigil
Celebrity bodyguard Anna Loginova killed
A Russian model who started a bodyguard agency to protect Moscow’s newly rich businessmen has been killed during a carjacking in the capital, only weeks after describing how she had fought off a
similar attack. Anna Loginova, 29, died from head injuries while trying to... [continued]
Meet Dasha Zhukova, internet mogul
