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Critics have field day with VS Naipaul biog
The Trinidadian-born man of letters VS Naipaul has been recognised as one of the most arrogant men in London literary circles for donkey's years. Now an authorised biography by fellow writer Patrick French exposes the novelist and travel writer's character in all its horror, and the book reviewers are having... [continued]
Calls for Mosley to quit after tabloid sting
Max Mosley, son of the notorious pre-war fascist leader Sir Oswald Mosley, was under pressure today to quit his post as president of the FIA, Formula One's ruling body, after being exposed by the News of the World allegedly enjoying a sado-masochistic orgy - with Nazi overtones - in a... [continued]
Coroner rules out Duke’s involvement in Diana crash
The coroner in the long-running inquest into the deaths of Diana, Princess of Wales, and her friend Dodi Fayed told the jury today that there is no evidence that
Prince Philip, the Secret Intelligence Service or any other government agency had anything to do with their deaths in the 1997... [continued]
Burrell refuses to return to Di inquest 
Roman spends $160m on a drill
A man going out to buy a drill is not normally worth a headline - unless the man is Roman Abramovich and the drill costs $160m and is capable of boring a hole 19 metres in diameter. Then everyone wants to know why he'd want such a toy. Reports last... [continued]
Speer Jr takes on 1936 sports site
Tempelhof airport, subject of The First Post's cover story today, is not the only building from Berlin's Third Reich period whose future is in question. The Poststadion,
a dilapidated sports complex used for football matches in the 1936 Berlin Olympics, is up for renovation and the architect hoping to... [continued]
D-Day nears for the 'mother of all airports'
In brief: rare Picasso found
A rare early watercolour by Pablo Picasso, depicting the artist and one of his first lovers, has been discovered in a West Country house... Dith Pran, the Cambodian photojournalist whose life story under the brutal Khmer Rouge regime was recreated in the film The Killing Fields, has died in New ... [continued]
Fears grow for hostage’s health
Fears are growing for the health of Ingrid Betancourt, the 46-year-old French-Colombian politician who has been held captive in the jungle by Farc guerillas for six years. Her
ex-husband, Fabrice Delloye, said in France he feared she was "near death or already dead" while local peasants claim she is sick... [continued]
Ingrid Betancourt, the FARC raid’s real victim
EG’s most wanted man marries in Gibraltar
The day Equatorial Guinea issued an arrest warrant for Mark Thatcher, as reported here last week, Margaret Thatcher's beloved son had just got married again. A year after he divorced
his Texan wife Diana, he married Lady Sarah Russell, 43, who divorced her husband, Lord Francis Russell, son of the... [continued]
Equatorial Guinea pursues Mark Thatcher
