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Fidel steps down as Cuban leader
The Cuban president Fidel Castro has announced his resignation after leading the one-party state for half a century. In a statement posted on the website of the Communist party
newspaper Granma, he wrote: "To my dear compatriots... I communicate to you that I will not aspire to or accept... the... [continued]
Miami plans Castro death party 
In pictures: Fidel Castro's life
Ridicule greets Lohan’s Monroe remake
An attempt by the photographer Bert Stern to recreate a famous nude photoshoot with Marilyn Monroe in 1962, using the troubled young actress Lindsay
Lohan, has been greeted with ridicule. Lohan, it is generally agreed, doesn't have Marilyn's body, her face or her charisma. As for the blonde wig, it... [continued]
Pictures from the shoot
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Could Mr Popular steal Best Actor Oscar from Daniel Day-Lewis?
Is Daniel Day-Lewis still a dead cert for the best actor Oscar next Sunday? Or is George Clooney now the man to watch? Having bagged just about every acting prize
going this award season for his performance in There Will Be Blood, Day-Lewis (above right) has looked... [continued]
Film fans and academy are worlds apart
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Fayed reveals plot with cast of thousands
Without offering any substantive evidence, the Harrods owner Mohamed Fayed outlined on Monday an astonishingly complex plot by the British and French establishments to murder his son
Dodi and Diana, Princess of Wales. Speaking at the London inquest into their deaths in 1997, Fayed said he would... [continued]
Ken and Mohamed's nasty little habit
Burrell admits lying to Diana inquest
Millionaire plans to rebuild China’s pride
A peasant farmer-turned-multi-millionaire entertainment entrepreneur is hoping to build a £1.4bn replica of the scene of one of China's greatest national humiliations. Xu Wenrong (pictured) plans to construct an imitation of the Garden of Perfect Brightness - a stately pleasure dome of lakes, gardens and palaces... [continued]
January joins Branagh on the Richard Curtis love-boat
Richard Curtis, writer-director of the British smash-hit Love Actually, is assembling the cast for his new film, The Boat That Rocked. For once in a Curtis film - he wrote Four Weddings and a Funeral and Notting Hill - there is no part for Hugh Grant. Instead the male stars... [continued]
Russia waits for Medvedev the normal
Dimitry Medvedev, the man Vladimir Putin has ensured will succeed him as Russian president, has revealed himself to be a 'normal guy' - if normal guys phone their mother every day. In an interview with the Russian news magazine Itogi - paid for by Medvedev's campaign -... [continued]
In Brief: Heidi voted sexiest model
Heidi Klum (pictured) has been named the sexiest model in the world, ahead of Kate Moss and Gisele Bundchen... Paul McCartney abandoned a record £55m divorce deal with Heather Mills just hours before it was due to be signed in the High Court. The case will now... [continued]
