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How Fisk was inspired by Pat Buchanan
From our strange bedfellows department: Robert Fisk (pictured), the Middle East correspondent for the Independent, writing today to mark the fifth anniversary of
the invasion of Iraq, recalls that among his inspirational reading material at the time was a clipping of an article by Pat Buchanan, ultra-right American commentator who... [continued]
News in Pics: the invasion of Iraq 
Five years on: what they said about war on Iraq
In brief: shoppers shun Kate’s collection
Kate Moss's latest collection for Topshop was greeted with indifference in London's Oxford Street on Tuesday - in contrast to the crowds who gathered a year ago to snap up the
supermodel's debut clothing range... Jerome Kerviel, the Frenchman at the heart of the world's biggest rogue... [continued]
Heather Mills was 'explosive', says judge
Minghella’s death marks end of great film-making partnership
The sudden death of the British film director Anthony Minghella, reported here yesterday, has caused particular sadness among his colleagues at Mirage Enterprises, the film company
where he was a partner with the American director and actor, Sydney Pollack. The two directors collaborated as producers on several films - last... [continued]
Anthony Minghella dies at 54
Express papers say sorry to McCanns
Four newspapers owned by press baron Richard Desmond and his Express newspapers group have been forced to apologise to Kate and Gerry McCann after publishing more than 100 articles on the disappearance of their daughter Madeleine, some of which suggested the couple were involved in her... [continued]
Orange row obscures Turk’s bravery
While a phoney war erupts up over the new Orange Prize for women novelists - Antonia Byatt and Nadine Gordimer are two established writers who won't allow their
publishers to enter their work for the "unnecessary" award - one of the novels on yesterday's long-list for the annual prize has... [continued]
Orhan Pamuk: at the centre of the culture clash
In Town Last Night: intelligent design lauded at museum awards
There wasn't an angle out of place and black suits abounded as the cream of London's design talent assembled at the Design Museum for the Designs of the Year awards. German industrialist Yves
Behar took the top gong for his clockwork computer project, One Laptop for Every Child, while tieless... [continued]
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Tributes paid to ‘visionary’ Clarke
Arthur C Clarke, the visionary science fiction writer who died on Tuesday at his home in Sri Lanka, had correctly predicted a future of moon landings, mobile phones, communication
satellites and the internet. His regret - according to a farewell message to friends he made on his... [continued]
2001: A Space Odyssey clip courtesy of Warner Home Video, available on DVD.
Brown agrees to meet Dalai Lama
Gordon Brown, accused by Tory leader David Cameron of "dithering" over whether or not to meet the Dalai Lama when he comes to Britain in May,
finally agreed today that he will definitely welcome the controversial Tibetan leader to Downing Street. He made the announcement during Prime Minister's Questions... [continued]
The Burma file: latest news
The Mole: inside Downing Street
