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Brown gets bloggers all a-Twitter
Gordon Brown's team have hit on a new way of getting their message across to the outside world - the instant messaging social networking site Twitter. No doubt desperate for any
means to put across positive news (very thin on the ground right now), a Brown aide with... [continued]
Pope steals Brown's thunder in US 
Putin quashes marriage rumours
What a spoilsport. Vladimir Putin has dismissed rumours that he plans to marry the beautiful Russian gymnast and Duma deputy Alina Kabaeva. A report about the pair's
impending nuptials appeared in the Russia newspaper Moskovski Korrespondent this week and was followed widely in the... [continued]
Putin's young gymnast flame turns heads
In pictures: Putin's wife and lover
In brief: Levinson’s Hollywood satire to close Cannes festival
The Hollywood satire What Just Happened?, directed by Barry Levinson (right) and starring Robert de Niro (left), Sean Penn, Bruce Willis and Catherine Keener, has been selected to close the 2008 Cannes Film Festival, despite receiving a mixed response at Sundance in January; the rest of the Cannes... [continued]
Barclays dragged into Ritz hotel con trick
The Barclay twins, owners of the Daily Telegraph and the London Ritz Hotel, have been dragged into an elaborate fraud case, which hinged on the billionaires' notoriously reclusive nature. In
2006 two conmen approached property businessman Terry Collins with a once-in-a-lifetime offer - the chance to buy... [continued]
Perry hits back over 'stinking mob' Barclays
Chelsea fields campaign curveballs
Chelsea Clinton is beginning to realise that life on the campaign trail is not all smiles and handshakes. At first the 28-year-old, who is now a hedge find manager, only had to
contend with die-hard Hillary supporters, who turned up to take photos and throw her... [continued]
Governor Bill's night at the Little Rock Hilton
How Bill became a liability for Hillary
Latest news from the US election
Charles’s 60th birthday souvenirs
The Prince of Wales is set for lashings of good publicity next month when an exhibition to mark his 60th birthday opens at Windsor Castle. The show, which will document his early life, the time he spent at Cambridge University in 1960s as well his marriages... [continued]
Pussy Galore defends Clegg’s honour
Honor Blackman, the actress who played Pussy Galore in the James Bond film Goldfinger, has defended Lib-Dem leader Nick Clegg’s astonishingly naive revelation in a recent men’s magazine interview that he had enjoyed “no more than 30” sexual partners before marrying. Erstwhile sex kitten Blackman, who... [continued]
