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New poll sees Ken close gap on Boris
There was relief in the Ken Livingstone camp last night when word came through that the Guardian was running a poll showing that the Tory contender for Mayor of London,
Boris Johnson, was not nearly as far ahead in the race as had been predicted. The ICM survey, published this... [continued]
Is Boris being muzzled? 
Newsdesk: London mayoralty race tightens
Murdoch party casts doubt on Clinton
Who is the Murdoch clan backing for American president - Hillary Clinton or Barack Obama? It was assumed last year that Clinton was the favoured one when
Rupert Murdoch and his son James both made donations to her coffers. But more recently the Murdoch-owned New York Post has been giving... [continued]
James wins Murdoch succession race
Latest news from the US election
Stones spend night together in Leicester Square
Martin Scorsese's documentary about the Rolling Stones, Shine A Light, was celebrated by the band on their home turf last night, with the British premiere in London's
Leicester Square. Sir Mick Jagger, Keith Richards, Charlie Watts and Ronnie Wood all turned out for what is the... [continued]
Video: Shine A Light trailer
Robinson sells off half his Staggers stake
The millionaire Labour MP Geoffrey Robinson, famous for lending his government colleague Peter Mandelson £373,000 to buy a house 10 years ago while under investigation for fraud by Mandelson's department, was said on Wednesday to be "very pleased" to announce that he had sold a 50 per cent stake in... [continued]
The downfall of the ‘Teflon Taoiseach’
Bertie Ahern, the peace-maker politician who resigned as Ireland's leader on Wednesday, was known as the 'Teflon Taoiseach' in recognition of a long career in which no dirt ever seemed to stick to him. But he leaves after 11 years in as much disgrace as his mentor,... [continued]
Bond shaken and stirred by revengeful Chilean mayor
He's averted global destruction, defused bombs, seen off sharks and done all this with sophistication and sangfroid. Finally though, James Bond has met his match. Balding, bespectacled and
fatter than Oddjob, Carlos Lopez is a Chilean mayor who confronted Daniel Craig and Olga Kurylenko while they were shooting in a... [continued]
James Bond title revealed - but is it 007 or Harry Potter?
Jay-Z to sign $150m music deal
Jay-Z, one of rap's richest and most entrepreneurial stars, who owns a string of nightclubs and sold his clothing line Rocawear for $204m last year, is about to clinch one of his
biggest deals yet. The 38-year-old hip hop star is on the verge of leaving his... [continued]
After Gisele, now Jay-Z passes the buck
Video: Jay-Z's 'American Gangster'
In Town: brief encounters at the Agent Provocateur party
Raunchy as ever, the saucepots at high-end lingerie brand Agent Provocateur hosted a very kinky event at the Louise T Blouin gallery in Holland Park on Wednesday night. Entitled A Very Private
Affair, the party and floor-to-ceiling exhibition of photographs by Tim Bret Day heralded... [continued]
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