Prime Minister Gordon Brown greeted French President Nicolas Sarkozy in a desperate show of bonhomie and love and many are wondering if The Great Clunking Fist is the other man? .. ...

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Of all the oddballs that Johnny Depp has played, it was a pirate that turned him into a movie star. ...

Pete Waterman's Eurovision song and the act who will represent the UK in Oslo will be decided later. ...

A 16-year-old is arrested and charged in connection with a break-in at singer Susan Boyle's home in West Lothian. ...

To Fairfax Road, Swiss Cottage, not too far from Old Mr Anorak's London supper club, where a Dalmation dog is beneath the No.31 bus. ...

The actress Miriam Margolyes submits to a little cultural examination. ...

The unlikeliest double-act on TV are back - and this time, they're looking for a new Dorothy in BBC One's new talent contest Over the Rainbow. ...

Goldfrapp: Head First is an album you might have a bit of a crush on, but you won't fall in love with it. ...

Pink Floyd has decided not to woo any news fans to their music by winning a High Court ruling preventing EMI from selling individual tracks on the web. ...

This year's blockbusters are an unusually enticing bunch. Here are the latest box-office hopefuls. ...

Radio 1 DJ and former breakfast show host Sara Cox has given birth to her third child, a girl named Renee. ...

Forget Britain's Susan Boyle. Russia sees her and trumps us with six Susan Boyles. You want Hairy Angels? You can't handle the Hairy Angels. ...

Veteran actor Sir David Jason is to lend his voice to CBBC's first ever in-house animation series, it is announced. ...

This isn't Amber Rose. This is the Heather Mills sexbot... ...

PG Wodehouse privately detested the rounds of interviews that followed his knighthood, a recently discovered letter shows. ...

Our man in LA went to see the party. And to see if Lacey Brown does look like a younger version of Sharon Osbourne in the flesh

Police in Worthing, Sussex, are hunting the bag-snatcherwo stole an old woman's bag of poo. ...

Some of Holland's nurses are refusing to provide sexual favours to patients. Dutch nurses are launching a national campaign against moves by patient to make sex part of the care pr ...

Candid pictures of John Lennon which have never been seen in public have been found after being kept hidden in a photographer's drawer for more than 40 years. ...

Contrary to what everybody else has been reporting, 38-year-old actor Corey Haim did not die of a drug overdose, writes Anorak's Man in LA. ...

Back from the Brink: the Inside Story of the Tory Resurrection by Peter Snowdon says that the Conservative Party has returned. Robert Colvile assesses the argument. ...

As her new crime novel hits the streets, Sara Paretsky tells Jake Kerridge about her headstrong heroine, VI Warshawski ...

The dance group are to finish their world tour by topping Sunday night's bill at this year's Bestival on the Isle of Wight. ...

A musical celebrating US musician Ray Charles will open on Broadway in November, it is announced. ...

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How many people can you get in to a small hatchback car? The golden rule is that no-one gets left behind. It works for the military and it works for East European labourers. ...

DEATH. The final frontier. Now I hear a new UK magazine plans to boldly go into this uncharted territory. It's called Eulogy and is due for launch sometime this year.... ...

Bristol - the city which produced bands such as Massive Attack and Portishead - has been named Britain's ''most musical city'' in a new survey. ...

Oscar-nominated actor John Malkovich is to tread the boards in London playing a Josef Fritzl-style Austrian psychopath, it has been announced. ...

Film director Peter Jackson may face legal action over his plans to install a version of the famous Hollywood sign in New Zealand. ...

LONDON (Reuters) - Art history has been less than kind to Paul Sandby, an 18th century British painter whose name was eclipsed by contemporaries like Thomas Gainsborough and Joshua ...

Popular teen drama series Skins is commissioned for a further two series, broadcaster E4 announces. ...

Bristol beats Manchester, Liverpool and London to be named Britain's "most musical city" in a survey by the Performing Right Society. ...

Cecilia Juarez is Mexico's held its annual Miss Belleza Cautiva

Lawyers for music producer Phil Spector are appealing his murder conviction, claiming he was denied a fair trial. ...

Jay Sean sweeps the boards at the 2010 Asian Music Awards by winning the four awards for which he was nominated. ...

Lord Puttnam says UK cinema is in a robust state, but says film should be reflected more on primetime television shows. ...

James Bulger is killed. And the powers that be don't know what to do... ...

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To the Boyzone concert at the royal Albert Hall, they came to remember Stephen Gately - a career in pictures. Rumours of the death of Ronan Keating's hair seem premature. ...

The BBC is spending hundreds of thousands of pounds on sending staff on a course to teach them how to use Facebook. ...

The One Show presenter Christine Bleakley starts her water-ski challenge across the English Channel in aid of Sport Relief. ...

JACK Straw met James Bulger's mum Denise Fergus yesterday. This is what happened... ...

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BBC Radio 4 is to axe the Friday Play after more than a decade due to budget cuts. ...

MARK Owen, the Take That fallen possum, says he shagged 10 women while dating his wife-to-be Emma. He was seeing Neva Hanley for around five years

The Duke of Devonshire gave a glimpse of a newly revitalised Chatsworth yesterday, weeks after declaring that the aristocracy was "dead". ...

Julian Fellowes, the Oscar-winning screenwriter of Gosford Park, has claimed that television is run by executives who are obsessed with youth. ...

Her new cookery programme begins later this month. Elizabeth Grice talks to Sophie Dahl about food, modelling and marriage. ...

Hundreds of people are being asked to shed their clothes to celebrate a Greater Manchester art gallery's 10th birthday. ...

WHOA! James Brown's body is no longer mouldering in his grave according to one of his daughters.... ...

NEW YORK (Hollywood Reporter) - In these recessionary times, it might take more than the imprimatur of celebrity presenters Elton John and David Furnish to make "Next Fall" viable ...

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Rolling Stone Keith Richards famously cannot be killed by conventional weapons. But American Idol singers murdering his music might just do it... ...

Paul Daniels is turning into Alan Patridge. He used to be on the telly. Now, he's on YouTube... ...

LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Global movie ticket sales hit $29.9 billion last year, up 7.6 percent, with the most growth in the Asia Pacific region, the leading U.S. movie industry repr ...

Anna Arrowsmith, also known as director Anna Span, is MD of Easy on the Eye Productions, purveyors of such titles as Good Service, Hoxton Honey, Hug A Hoodie and Uniform Behaviour. ...

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CARAVAGGIO, Italy (Reuters) - Six possible descendants of Baroque artist Michelangelo Merisi, known as Caravaggio, have been DNA-tested in the hopes they can help unveil the myster ...