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Chinese stars caught up in web porn row
A group of Hong Kong's best known actors and pop stars, including Edison Chen, who stars in the Infernal Affairs movies, the actress Cecilia Cheung and the
Twins singer Gillian Chung (pictured), have been caught up in an internet porn saga that has led to several arrests and a row... [continued]
Valentine's Day threat: return of the Storm 'trojan' 
Georgian tycoon found dead in mansion
Do the British police have another Alexander Litvinenko on their hands? The flamboyant Georgian business tycoon Badri Patarkatsishvili (pictured) was
found dead late on Tuesday night at his £10m mansion in Surrey. He is a sworn enemy of Georgia's president, Mikhail Saakashvili. A family spokesman said he suffered a heart... [continued]
Newsdesk: Police probe dissident death
Peregrine Worsthorne: Putin might be right about the US
The Litvinenko File
Spacey and Goldblum hailed as ‘greatest double act’ in Mamet play
The London theatre has a new hit show on its hands - David Mamet's play Speed the Plow, starring two Hollywood actors, Jeff Goldblum and Kevin Spacey, at the Old Vic. The critics are ecstatic this morning, Charles Spencer of the Daily Telegraph calling the casting inspired: "Goldblum and Spacey... [continued]
Spielberg quits Beijing Olympics in protest
Under pressure from the actress Mia Farrow and several humanitarian groups, film director Steven Spielberg has finally pulled out of his role as artistic advisor to
this summer's Beijing Olympics in protest at China's refusal to use its influence to stop the genocide in Darfur. "I find that my conscience... [continued]
Mia Farrow links Steven Spielberg to Nazis
Dame Kelly condemns Chambers’ return
Yesterday's news that the disgraced sprinter Dwain Chambers is to be included in the British team for the upcoming World Indoor Championships in Valencia, despite his history as a
drug cheat, has split the world of athletics. Dame Kelly Holmes, heroine of the 2004 Olympic Games, said... [continued]
Today's Sports Pages: Chambers picked - then barred
In Town Last Night: Westwood launches her magnum opus
Fashionistas teetered along to the Serpentine Gallery last night to join the grand dame of British fashion, Vivienne Westwood, for the launch of her new monolithic tome, The
Vivienne Westwood Opus. In a fitting tribute, plenty of her corseted, punky creations were modelled by guests including model Laura Bailey (pictured... [continued]
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‘Passion’ writer to sue Mel Gibson
Just as the 14-week screenwriters' strike is finally settled, it turns out that one Hollywood writer still has a gripe - not with the studios, but with Mel Gibson, the actor turned
film-maker. Benedict Fitzgerald, who wrote the script for Gibson's worldwide blockbuster The Passion of the... [continued]
Gibson's star treatment from cops over rant
In brief: Carla Bruni gives first interview
Carla Bruni, in her first interview as France's first lady, told L'Express magazine that it was love at first sight when she met Nicolas Sarkozy...
Film director Mike Leigh (pictured), a winner of the Cannes Palme D'Or and Venice's Golden Lion, could become the only living director... [continued]
The First Post A-Z of Oscar-nominated films
Heather Mills unleashes home movie on court
Sarko and Bruni's secret wedding
Meet Patty Hearst, champion dog-breeder
Newspaper heiress Patty Hearst gained international infamy in 1974 when she was caught helping her kidnappers, the Symbionese Liberation Army, during a bank robbery. Now it seems
Hearst - who became a byword for Stockholm syndrome, in which hostages come to sympathise with their captors - has... [continued]
Hearst's cohort Sara Jane Moore released
Video: Hearst caught on camera robbing a bank
