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Wednesday March 26, 2008

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Clinton under fire over sniper footage

Hillary Clinton has told another whopper, and she’s been found out. Last week, during a campaign stop in Washington DC, she gave a vivid description of a dangerous trip she made in Bosnia in March 1996. At Tuzla airport, she said, "I remember landing under sniper... [continued]

‘The Jackal’ snaps up Waugh estate

The fallout from the feuding at the London literary agency Peters Fraser & Dunlop (PFD) has reached its apogee: after 80 years controlling the rights to the novels of Evelyn Waugh, PFD has lost the literary estate to one of the world's most powerful literary agents, the American Andrew Wylie... [continued]

Bruni ‘furious’ over nude photos as Sarko show arrives in Britain

Carla Bruni, who arrived in London this morning with her husband French President Nicolas Sarkozy for a state visit, is said to be furious at the timing of a Christie's New York announcement that it will auction a nude black and white portrait of her. The photograph,... [continued]

Al-Jazeera English hit by staff losses

Al-Jazeera English, the troubled sibling of the Arab-language news service, has been hit by some high-profile defections. Steve Clark, a former senior executive at ITN and Sky News who was a driving force behind al-Jazeera English's launch in November 2006, resigned at the end of last week.... [continued]

The girl who would be Queen of Soho

A 22-year-old student of social anthropology at St Andrews University, alma mater of Prince Harry, is about to inherit the £650m porn and property empire, which includes a swathe of London's Soho district, built up by the sex trade tycoon Paul Raymond. She is Fawn James, Raymond's granddaughter. Fawn... [continued]

Best of Brit Art up for auction

Early prints by some of the best-known proponents of Brit Art are to be sold at Christie's in London on April 3 when the influential Paragon Press, founded in 1986 by Charles Booth-Clibborn, hopes to raise more than £500,000 to enable it to move to larger premises. The 120... [continued]

In brief: Clooney in fashion email hoax

George Clooney has been caught up in an email hoax, which claimed that the actor was launching a fashion label called GC Exclusive by George Clooney in Milan; Clooney insists he is the victim of an early April Fool's joke... New York's new state governor David Paterson,... [continued]

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