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Sarko loses cool with ‘dumb ass’ voter
As Nicolas Sarkozy's popularity rating falls to a new low - just 38 per cent - he has caused a new storm by telling a bystander during a walkabout to "get lost". The incident, at an
agricultural fair in Paris, was caught on film by a reporter from Le Parisien... [continued]
Video: Sarko loses his cool 
Red the winner on Oscars carpet
Red was the colour of the day on the equally red carpet at Sunday’s Oscars ceremony in Hollywood. Almost every actress in town was swathed in it — including venerable Ruby Dee,
Julie Christie, Anne Hathaway (right) and Katherine Heigl (left), who evoked Marilyn Monroe’s 1950s-style... [continued]
No country for American actors
Video: Oscar trailers
The First Post A-Z of Oscar-winning films
In Pictures: more red carpet dresses
The best (and worst) Oscar moments
BEST ACTRESSY MOMENT: Marion Cotillard, backstage after winning best actress Oscar for La Vie en Rose: "It feels so good. I'm totally overwhelmed with joy and sparkles and
fireworks, and everything which goes like BAM! BAM! BAM!' [It's as if] I just ate all those things, and it's happening right... [continued]
No country for American actors
The First Post A-Z of Oscar-winning films
Video: Oscar trailers
In Pics: red carpet winners
In brief: Blur drummer to stand for Labour
Dave Rowntree (pictured), the drummer in the band Blur, is to stand for Labour at the next general election... Plymouth schoolboy Thomas Daley will become
Britain's youngest male Olympian after qualifying for the UK diving team for the Beijing Games; he will be 14 years when he... [continued]
Merkel says nein to President Blair
From US to Burma, Obama goes global
An Irish-born, Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist and Harvard professor who has been known to refer to herself as "the genocide chick" after her reporting from Rwanda and Sudan, has offered a glimpse
of the near-evangelical zeal within the campaign team that has pushed Barack Obama ahead of Hillary Clinton in the... [continued]
How West Wing writers wrote the script for Obama
US election latest
Mugabe celebrates his 84th in style
Robert Mugabe's birthday present from his cabinet colleagues last year was a leopard skin; this year, the Zimbabwean president got a stuffed crocodile at his official birthday party on Saturday. The croc, they told him, was a symbol of his "maturity and wisdom". The bash was held in a... [continued]
Revealed: Rev Pat’s heavenly vision
The Rev Pat Robertson, founding father of America's ultra-conservative televangelists, has revealed what Heaven is really like. He described it in answer to a question posed by a boy on his nationally-broadcast 700 Club show "What kind of clothes do they wear in Heaven, what kind of buildings are... [continued]
