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Omar bin Laden fights UK visa ban
Osama bin Laden is not the best name to bandy around when you're trying to relocate to the United Kingdom – something that his son, Omar Ossama, knows all too well. Despite being married to a Brit, the former Jane Felix-Browne (pictured with her husband), Bin... [continued]
How Hofmann’s LSD helped Cary Grant
Albert Hofmann (pictured), the inventor of LSD and the first person in the world to experience a full-blown acid trip, died on Tuesday. The reclusive Swiss
scientist, who was 102, was interviewed by The First Post in January 2006, when he claimed that the hallucinogenic drug... [continued]
Bitter tale of the acid pioneer 
Little Britain star hunted by stalker
David Walliams, one half of the comedy duo behind Little Britain, is attempting to place a restraining order on an obsessive fan who he claims has spent the last four years stalking him. Sarah Bartholomew, 29, sent a string of "overtly sexual" emails to the actor. These were... [continued]
Boris’s ex-colleague sticks the knife in
The Conservative candidate Boris Johnson comes under fire in The First Post today from Peregrine Worsthorne, who believes David Cameron’s
entire new Tory project is a risk if the blond bombshell becomes Mayor of London after tomorrow's election. While Worsthorne is a distinguished former editor of... [continued]
Boris makes a big non-appointment
Ken v Boris: London mayoral election special
Hurt to play Englishman in NYC
The actor John Hurt is to reprise his role as the celebrated eccentric Quentin Crisp. The new TV film, called An Englishman in New York, will pick up where the 1970s classic The Naked Civil Servant (pictured) left off, and will focus on the period when Crisp,... [continued]
In brief: Sarandon and Ricci at Wachowski brothers’ premiere
Oscar-winner Susan Sarandon (right) joined co-stars Christina Ricci (centre) and Emile Hirsch (left) in London's
Leicester Square on Tuesday night for the UK premiere of Speed Racer, the first writing/directing collaboration for brothers Larry and Andy Wachowski since
The Matrix movies... Salman Rushdie - who... [continued]
Yoko Ono bid to spike Lennon drug film
Jimmy Carter backs Barack to run
Jimmy Carter has signalled that he is backing Barack Obama. While the former US president has not officially endorsed the Democratic Party frontrunner, he has made
it clear where his sympathies lie. In an interview with the Daily Telegraph, Carter talked of Obama's potential to "transform the... [continued]
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William makes secret mission to Afghanistan
Not to be outdone by his brother Harry, Prince William undertook a high-risk, secret mission to Afghanistan at the weekend. He was one of the pilots flying a C-17 Globemaster military transport plane for part of the 30-hour round trip from RAF Brize Norton, Oxfordshire,... [continued]
