Sunday, 13 July 2008 @ 01:00
Meeting Dasha Zhukova, Roman Abramovich's girl
Last month, yet another lavish party rocked Moscow. But this was not just any old party: it was Daria “Dasha” Zhukova’s moment. Amid rumours that her oligarch boyfriend, Roman Abramovich, had recently proposed to her, she welcomed 300 of art and fashion’s most powerful to a converted bus depot for the opening of her art gallery, the Center for Contemporay Culture Moscow, ot...
Sunday, 13 July 2008 @ 01:00
Sex therapy: the return of free love
Picture the scene: you are in a room with more than a hundred adults. Sitting at one end, with a microphone in his hand, is a man with long white hair who is encouraging everybody to introduce themselves to each other. “Go up to somebody,” he says, “and say one honest, true thing about them that strikes you immediately. Then have them do the same back to you. But before you do that,...
Sunday, 13 July 2008 @ 01:00
Saturday, 12 July 2008 @ 13:45
Thompson rejects calls to cut BBC
BBC director general Mark Thompson rebuffs suggestions that the corporation should reduce its output.
Saturday, 12 July 2008 @ 12:53
Actress Evelyn Keyes dies aged 91
Evelyn Keyes, who played Scarlett O'Hara's younger sister Suellen in Gone With The Wind, dies aged 91.
Saturday, 12 July 2008 @ 12:42
Women on top - Great Britain's Olympics stars
How times have changed since 1900, when the founder of the modern Olympics, Baron Pierre de Coubertin, lifted the original ban on women competing in the Games. That happened only grudgingly. “Would they constitute a proper spectacle? We do not think so,” he once huffed. And since then, while a few British athletes such as Mary Peters, who won pentathlon gold in Munich in 1972, have be...
Saturday, 12 July 2008 @ 12:28
How to get dressed: Why everything is now designer
We should probably brace ourselves for the imminent launch of a luxury hospital with interiors decked out by Roberto Cavalli. Or how about a school styled by Ralph Lauren? Think how Cavalli’s animal prints would jazz up the average operating theatre (can't have real pets in a MRSA-sensitive zone? How about the next best thing?); picture the reassuring whiff of Ivy League parquet floori...
Saturday, 12 July 2008 @ 01:00
Friday, 11 July 2008 @ 20:37
Concern over Michael Jackson follows wheelchair pics
Los Angeles (dpa0 - Michael Jackson's reported comeback may have to wait. The former king of pop could be