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Dr Liam Fox: You Ask The Questions

Mon, 09 Nov 2009 00:00:01 GMT

Boxing: Giant-slayer Haye set to make millions

Mon, 09 Nov 2009 00:00:01 GMT

As any PR-savvy theologian will tell you, slaying a giant is a great way to boost your profile.

Disappointment as Morrissey axes concert during second song

Sun, 08 Nov 2009 15:47:38 GMT

Thousands of Morrissey fans were left disappointed when the star axed a concert mid way through the second song.

Pop star Rihanna describes assault horror

Sun, 08 Nov 2009 15:45:42 GMT

Chart star Rihanna has described the horror she felt as her ex-boyfriend Chris Brown was biting and punching her during a violent argument, saying she saw "no soul in his eyes".

Francesca Martinez: A wobbly girl's battle against the last taboo

Sun, 08 Nov 2009 00:00:01 GMT

Francesca Martinez's victim is squirming. Trapped under the scrutiny of the comedian and fellow members of the audience at her show in Edinburgh, he is clearly wishing for the proverbial hole to open up. "What are you bad at?" asks Martinez. "Football," comes the sheepish reply. "Were you born like that?" she enquires, head tilted in sympathy, "Couldn't your mum have had a test when she was pregnant?" Turning to the man's girlfriend, she simpers: "You are so brave. Well done... Does it mean he can't have sex?"

Stuart Broad: Ashes hero and all-round good bloke

Sun, 08 Nov 2009 00:00:01 GMT

Stuart Broad knew what happened last summer would change his life, and events over the past few weeks have shown him to be spot-on. If being recognised in the street more often than before – and being invited to appear on Friday Night with Jonathan Ross – were not proof enough of a higher profile post-Ashes, attracting the attention of Shane Warne surely clinches the deal.

Hero or Villain? Egon Krenz

Sun, 08 Nov 2009 00:00:01 GMT

Egon Krenz rose through the ranks of the East German communist party, the Socialist Unity Party of Germany, like gas in a stagnant pond. His ascent was so smooth, so inexorable, that it seemed less a matter of politics than of the laws of physics. Up and up he passed from its inert depths until, in 1989, he reached the top. At the age of 52, the tailor's son from Pomerania became master of the German Democratic Republic (DDR). But by then, the country didn't want one. It wanted freedom – from the party, its restrictions, especially, from people like him.

How We Met: Aidan McArdle & Olivia Colman

Sun, 08 Nov 2009 00:00:01 GMT

Aidan McArdle, 38, is an actor best known for his role as Dudley Moore in the Bafta-nominated TV biopic 'Not Only But Also'. He has also starred in the BBC's most recent adaptation of 'Jane Eyre' and the award-winning comedy 'Beautiful People'. He lives in London with his wife, the actress Aislin McGuckin, and their daughter

Coronation Street star questioned over crash

Sat, 07 Nov 2009 12:12:20 GMT

Coronation Street star Ryan Thomas was questioned by police in connection with a drink-drive collision, it emerged today.

Mann returns to the arms of his wife

Sat, 07 Nov 2009 00:00:01 GMT

The mercenary Simon Mann, 57, celebrated his freedom with his wife, Amanda, yesterday as he thanked people for the "warmth" shown since his release from a 34-year jail sentence for his part in plotting a coup.

Michael Haneke: Bleak house

Sat, 07 Nov 2009 00:00:01 GMT

For a film director who demands quite so much of his audience, and even more uncompromisingly of himself, it has taken the Austrian director Michael Haneke a long time (20 years to be precise) to gain the Palme d'Or at Cannes, that quintessential approbation of the art-house auteur. But then maybe, like Martin Scorsese's long wait for an Oscar, it isn't so surprising. Haneke is a director who challenges but he does not satisfy; his ever so precisely organised films grip you with their remorseless catalogue of pain only to leave you unrelieved at the end either by resolution or even explanation.

My Week: General Sir John Kiszely

Sat, 07 Nov 2009 00:00:01 GMT

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Thompson 'talked out of support for Polanski' by 19-year-old student

Sat, 07 Nov 2009 00:00:01 GMT

Emma Thompson is an Oscar-winning actress whose charisma and outspoken personality have earned her admiration and a reputation as a "strong woman".

Mike Tyson's weird week on tour in Britain

Sat, 07 Nov 2009 00:00:01 GMT

I had the dubious pleasure four years ago of being hired to "work the room" with Mike Tyson on his first British after-dinner speaking tour. The crowds were big, but I was told: "No boxing questions. Don't ask his opinion on all those indiscretions both sides of the ropes." I wasn't even allowed to probe for answers to his very real boxing genius, and instead was restricted to asking him questions about Birmingham tumblers (it's a type of pigeon) and Wayne Rooney.

My Secret Life: Skin, singer, 42

Sat, 07 Nov 2009 00:00:01 GMT

My parents were ... fun-loving, very strict, very Jamaican. My dad was in the Air Force and then worked on oil rigs. My mum was a nurse before she took a position in local government, working in the environmental department.

Nicky, darling: Deborah Ross pins down Nicky Haslam, Britain's busiest social butterfly

Sat, 07 Nov 2009 00:00:01 GMT

When I first call Nicky Haslam, the interior designer and fervent man-about-town, to arrange a meeting he says: "Shall we do dinner at The Wolseley?" "Yes, please," I say, "great." He then calls back and says: "I've booked, dinner at nine." "Great," I repeat, even though what I'm actually thinking is: nine? Nine? Heavens to Betsy, who on earth has dinner at nine? Seriously, this is my first thought. This is how old and boring and fusty and stay-at-home and washed-up I am. Heavens to Betsy, I even say "Heavens to Betsy" which no-one in their right mind says anymore. But nine? Who does go to dinner at nine? Only young people, I initially suppose, and Nicky Haslam, who is 70, but works so tirelessly at being young that it would be unspeakably cruel to exclude him.

Arlene Phillips stages extraordinary career comeback

Fri, 06 Nov 2009 18:07:41 GMT

Her doubters might have predicted an early retirement for Arlene Phillips after she was ungraciously dropped as a judge on the TV dance quiz Strictly Come Dancing.

Miss England steps down after arrest

Fri, 06 Nov 2009 13:51:49 GMT

Miss England Rachel Christie has relinquished her crown after being arrested on suspicion of a nightclub assault sparked by a row over a TV gladiator.

Pandora: The Trudie Show gets ready for Copenhagen

Fri, 06 Nov 2009 00:00:01 GMT

As politicians, diplomats and scientists around the world prepare to decamp to Copenhagen for December's make-or-break United Nations climate change conference, it occurs to Pandora that one very important guest may have been left off the list.

Lawrence Dallaglio: 'England have had no strategy since we won the World Cup'

Fri, 06 Nov 2009 00:00:01 GMT

Lawrence Dallaglio ambles out of the room, checking the messages on his mobile phone. A couple of minutes later he returns. "About all that England stuff..." he says and then pauses. This zealous communicator, a happy chewer of the fat, for once does not have the words immediately to hand. "I'm a patriot," he states after a moment, and shrugs. "All I want is to see England doing well."

Infamous heckles...and some ruffled responses

Thu, 05 Nov 2009 13:53:10 GMT

Hecklers. Those gloriously irreverant types who like the sound of their own voices so much that that they feel everyone should listen to them.

Infamous heckles...and their responses!

Thu, 05 Nov 2009 13:53:10 GMT

Hecklers. Those gloriously irreverant types who like the sound of their own voices so much that that they feel everyone should listen to them.

Ryan Seacrest 'stalker' pleads not guilty

Thu, 05 Nov 2009 12:23:14 GMT

A man arrested outside Ryan Seacrest's workplace has pleaded not guilty to a felony stalking charge.

Brad Pitt 'in the market for a new motorcycle' after crash

Thu, 05 Nov 2009 12:21:06 GMT

Brad Pitt says he is in the market for a new motorcycle.

Fatherhood keeps 'Conchords' stars busy

Thu, 05 Nov 2009 12:16:52 GMT

Bret McKenzie isn't expecting to take a call from his homeland.