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Whitehall’s mystery blogger goes to ground
A cheeky female civil servant blogger, who has been ridiculing Cabinet members including Gordon Brown and Alistair Darling, and taking the mickey out of civil service mandarins, right up to Cabinet secretary Gus O'Donnell, appears to have gone to ground after the Sunday Times reported that her Whitehall bosses are... [continued]
Backstreet Boys mogul faces 25 year sentence
The impresario behind the Backstreet Boys is set to plead guilty to charges of embezzling $300m. Lou Pearlman, 53, who also represented Justin
Timberlake's band N'Sync, has been in a US jail since he was spotted by a couple of German tourists and arrested in Indonesia in... [continued]
Who's who in the Pellicano trial 
Americans: lawyer to the stars takes centre stage
In brief: Dirty Dancing star Swayze has pancreatic cancer
Patrick Swayze, 55-year-old star of Dirty Dancing and Ghost, has been diagnosed with pancreatic cancer; however, his doctor says reports that the actor has just
five weeks to live are "absolutely untrue"... Paula Radcliffe has been forced to withdraw from next month's London Marathon - an event... [continued]
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Posh finally lives up to her name
She's spent her whole career being mocked for her 'Posh' soubriquet, but a new photoshoot with Victoria Beckham in Vogue magazine suggests that she's finally living up to her nickname. Shot by photographer Nick Knight in the style of Cecil Beaton's famously refined and majestic photographs of Princess Margaret and... [continued]
‘Merchant of Death’ Viktor Bout caught
The 'Merchant of Death' is finally behind bars. Viktor Bout, one of the world's most notorious international arms dealers, has been arrested by Thai police in Bangkok for supplying weapons and explosives to Colombia's FARC rebels. Bout or Butt, Bont, Buttee or Boutov depending on which alias he... [continued]
Buffett becomes world’s richest man
Legendary US investor Warren Buffett has overtaken his friend and sometime bridge partner Bill Gates as the world's richest individual, with a fortune of $62bn,
despite giving away a large chunk of his fortune to charity. The Nebraska-based investor has topped Forbes magazine's annual ranking of the... [continued]
Al Gore is finally beating Bush
‘Boring’ Gormley rages at ‘crap’ art
Who's the 'crap' artist - Antony Gormley or those who have been trying to emulate his success with his monumental Angel of the North? Gormley chose the launch on Wednesday
of new work at London's White Cube Gallery to tell the Independent what he thinks of modern public artworks in... [continued]
People: 'Boring' Gormley rages at 'crap' art
People: Banksy comes out for Ken Livingstone
Ken Shuttleworth, the gherkin and egg man
While fans of modern architecture marvel at Norman Foster's new airport for Beijing - photographed on The First Post today - the 'hidden genius' actually responsible for
designing many of Lord Foster's most famous buildings over three decades will next week unveil plans for a series of skyscrapers to be... [continued]
In pictures: Beijing airport
Burrell refuses to return to Di inquest
Princess Diana's former butler Paul Burrell has refused to return to the London inquest into her death, despite being asked to explain discrepancies between his
evidence and a video recording in which he apparently claims that he introduced "red herrings". In the video obtained by the Sun newspaper, Burrell allegedly... [continued]
People: Burrell humiliated at Diana inquest
ROH backs down over actor’s bit part
As an aspiring young actor, Juan Pablo Di Pace (pictured) was happy to play a small role in the Royal Opera House's 2001 production of Verdi's Rigoletto. But a small part was not what he had in mind when the ROH used his naked image from those... [continued]
