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Livingstone turns radio host on LBC
A seat in the House of Lords for Ken Livingstone - mooted here yesterday - may not be as pressing a requirement as his friends thought. The deposed London mayor has now secured an
even better platform on which to air his views - a job at... [continued]
Will Red Ken join the House of Lords? 
Silvio needs therapy, says Spanish MP
Silvio Berlusconi's much-quoted remarks on Spain's female-heavy government - more than half of the cabinet are women, which he thinks is far "too pink" - have prompted an angry
reaction from Bibiana Aido (pictured), Spain's equality minister, who believes the Italian Prime Minister should seek therapy to... [continued]
Berlusconi passes flirty notes in Parliament
In brief: Keira and Gwyneth to star in new King Lear
British actress Keira Knightley, who was nominated for an Oscar in her last big film, Atonement, is to play Cordelia in a $35m Hollywood adaptation of Shakespeare's King
Lear, it was announced in Cannes yesterday. Gwyneth Paltrow (pictured at Cannes yesterday with designer Valentino, left) is tipped... [continued]
In pictures: Cannes on the red carpet
Cannes 2008: the ones to watch
Roman unmasked as mystery art buyer
Buffett eyes up Europe’s big fish
The Eurozone may be entering a recession, but Warren Buffett, the 'Sage of Omaha', sees only opportunities. The billionaire US investor touched down in Germany yesterday on a tour of selected EU countries in a search for undervalued and under-priced companies ripe for plucking. Buffett, who with... [continued]
Embattled Brown puts PMQs on YouTube
In a craven and no doubt doomed bid to connect with young people, Gordon Brown has announced that he will allow the digitally savvy to put questions to him on the video-sharing site
YouTube. The Prime Minster, who called the new move an "exciting new initiative" (almost... [continued]
Ask the PM: put your question to Gordon Brown
Delivery man demands retrial over Howard Hughes will
Howard Hughes (pictured with Ginger Rogers), the reclusive American billionaire and hygiene freak who died in 1976, is the subject of a multi-million pound legal claim brought by a Utah delivery man who says that he once rescued the tycoon in the Nevada desert. Melvin Dummar claims... [continued]
Ernst fights knuckleduster claim
One of Europe's most colourful aristocrats, Prince Ernst August of Hanover, has begun a legal battle in Germany to overturn a conviction for busting a man's jaw with a knuckleduster. Eight years ago, the Prince, who is married to Princess Caroline of Monaco and is a cousin... [continued]
India gets star role in Hollywood deal
Indian billionaire Anil Ambani, the world’s sixth richest man, has taken advantage of the effects of the US credit squeeze in Hollywood – where producers are struggling to raise finance for even commercially-minded movies – to sink $1bn into American production companies owned by A-list stars such... [continued]
