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2008-09-05 23:44:03

Rachel Rice has won the ninth series of Big Brother, walking away with the £100,000 prize. The 24-year-old trainee teacher from Torfaen in Wales beat Mikey Hughes to win the title.The result had been too close to call all night, with the bookies favo

2008-09-05 23:35:31

Welsh trainee teacher Rachel Rice has been crowned the winner of the ninth series of Big Brother. Earlier, Darnell Swallow was first to get the boot from the house by public vote, followed by Rex Newmark and Sara Folino in third place.Later, the runner-up

2008-09-05 23:20:12

Former Heat editor Mark Frith has 'revealed all' in his memoirs The Celeb Diaries: the Sensational Inside Story of the Celebrity Decade. Frith is renowned for pushing the sales of the celebrity gossip magazine past half a million sales a week.In the book,

2008-09-05 22:26:37

The winner of the ninth series of Big Brother is due to be announced after three housemates were evicted by public vote. Darnell Swallow was first to get the boot, followed by Rex Newmark and Sara Folino in third place, leaving just Rachel Rice and Mikey

2008-09-05 21:38:00

VENICE, Italy (AFP) - Mickey Rourke scored a knock-out blow on Friday in his title role as "The Wrestler" in US director Darren Aronofsky's offering at the Venice film festival. Darren Aronofsky's stunning offering casts Rourke, 51, as a has-been professi

2008-09-05 21:18:00

LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - The rock group Heart, angry that its 70's hit "Barracuda" is being used as the unofficial theme song for Republican Vice Presidential nominee Sarah Palin, is biting back at the Alaska governor. The song, a nod to the "Sarah Barracu

2008-09-05 19:41:00

ROME (Reuters) - Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi lost a defamation suit he brought against The Economist magazine over a 2001 cover story that accused him of being "unfit to lead Italy", the publication said on Friday. Berlusconi, one of Italy's richest

2008-09-05 19:34:06

Austrian authorities say an unidentified man has found Bianca Jagger's diamond-encrusted platinum ring worth £160,000 in a small town outside Salzburg and has turned it over to police. The ex-wife of Rolling Stones frontman Mick Jagger reported the r

2008-09-05 19:34:06

An 81-year-old turns up at the X Factor this weekend, thinking he is auditioning for Britain's Got Talent. Peter Lee, from Kilmarnock in Scotland, plays the spoons to Singing In The Rain and tells judges he wants to appear on the Royal Variety Show.Simon

2008-09-05 18:57:00

NEW YORK (Reuters) - Jeanne Hopkins flew all the way from California to line up to put her name in a lottery for a $20 ticket (11 pounds) to see one of the last Broadway performances of the hit musical "Rent," which closes on Sunday after 12 years. Th