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2008-10-13 19:49:00

LONDON (Reuters) - One of the country's largest art galleries has been transformed into an emergency shelter, with 200 bed frames forming part of French artist Dominique Gonzalez-Foerster's dystopian vision of disaster in 2058. The giant installation in t

2008-10-13 19:47:00

ROME (AFP) - Italy coach Marcelo Lippi has volunteered to take part in an anti-racism and anti-fascism film aimed at schoolchildren, its director Moni Ovadia said Monday. Outspoken Ovadia asked Lippi to speak about the Holocaust during the film, and revea

2008-10-13 19:39:21

Actress Joanna Lumley has called for public support in pressurising the Government to allow retired Gurkhas to live in the UK. Her calls come in response to the third reading of a Bill regarding the rights of former British Army Gurkhas who retired before

2008-10-13 19:29:00

PETRA, Jordan (Reuters) - Sting, Andrea Bocelli, Placido Domingo and other stars of popular and classical music honoured late Italian tenor Luciano Pavarotti at a star-studded concert in Jordan over the weekend. Ballads and beat echoed out from a camp ove

2008-10-13 19:12:20

Noel Gallagher has hit out at The X Factor for having "absolutely nothing to do with music". The Oasis star accused Dannii Minogue, last year's winning judge, of being unable to recognise talent.Gallagher, 41, told the Radio Times: "If some

2008-10-13 18:48:22

Twiggy has revealed the secret to keeping her figure trim - eating just one pudding a month. The "world's first supermodel" weighed just six and a half stone in her heyday and while her stick-thin look was blamed for spreading anorexia, she has always ins

2008-10-13 18:12:13

An 11-year-old boy has became the youngest winner of Countdown's "Octochamp" title in 20 years. Kai Laddiman from Broad Oak, East Sussex, beat Richard Pascoe, a market research manager from Leeds, by 105 points to 55.This was his eighth win in a

2008-10-13 18:12:13

Twiggy has revealed the secret behind her trim frame - restricting herself to just one pudding a month. The "world's first supermodel" weighed just six and a half stone in her heyday in the Swinging Sixties.Her stick-thin look was blamed for spr

2008-10-13 18:09:09

A number of female stars have stepped out for the Women of the Year Awards in London. Olympic gold medallists Victoria Pendleton, Nicole Cooke and Christine Ohuruogu joined celebrities including Tracey Emin and TV presenter Fern Britton at the Guildhall e

2008-10-13 18:09:09

British star Simon Pegg has signed a seven-figure deal to write three non-fiction books. His first title will be a memoir which will cover his rise to fame and his work on TV and film projects such as Spaced and Shaun of the Dead.It is due to be published