Yasmin Le Bon: supermodel turns designer

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Wife of Duran Duran’s Simon Le Bon on ageing gracefully as she launches a new clothing range for Wallis
Jessica Brinton
Yasmin Le Bon is at her new gig, and the runways of Paris, New York or Milan it ain’t. “You okay? Good, good,” she says, with real warmth, a girl’s girl. I’m ushered into one of [...]

Unmasked blogger Rosemary Port to sue Google for $15m

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Mike Harvey, San Francisco
Google is to be sued for $15 million (£9 million) by an anonymous blogger who was unmasked by the internet search company.
Rosemary Port said that Google had failed to protect her right to privacy when the company obeyed a court order to reveal her name after she used her blog to accuse [...]

Aunt Sally: singleness is making me suicidal

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Sally Brampton
I’m 47, single since I was 34, and beyond sick of it. My longest relationship lasted for just over a year, on and off, and the others were what you might call “friends with benefits”. I attract men, but they don’t stick around (although they never stay single for long themselves), and the constant [...]

Julian Clary at the Udderbelly, Edinburgh

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Dominic Maxwell
The trouble with double entendre is that you can’t keep pumping it out all night long without fatigue setting in. But, for the first third of Julian Clary’s live comeback show he proves himself still to be the master of his domain. In his first live show for five years he sets out his [...]

The trials of being a single father

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When his wife died suddenly, one father had to rebuild his life with his young daughter
Simon Van Booys
It was about 6:30 on Thursday morning, and I was cooking breakfast in my pyjamas. My daughter, Madeleine, 4, was helping by transferring eggs from the carton into the fridge egg box. It’s one of the things she [...]

LA coroner to treat Michael Jackson’s death as a homicide

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Tim Reid in Washington
Michael Jackson’s death has been ruled a homicide by the Los Angeles county coroner’s office, it emerged last night after his personal doctor was accused of administering lethal doses of a hospital-grade anaesthetic the day the singer died.
According to a search warrant involving Jackson’s doctor Conrad Murray, unsealed last night, lethal doses [...]

What Bail Means for Xu Zhiyong

Pioneering Chinese legal activist Xu Zhiyong was released from custody Sunday morning on what’s known in Chinese as “qubao houshen”.

Xinjiang govt denies unrest trials date

The government in northwest China’s Xinjiang region on Tuesday denied a report in the state media that more than 200 people would be put on trial this week over recent deadly ethnic unrest in the area.

Jackson was ‘murdered’

Pop star Michael Jackson had lethal levels of the powerful anaesthetic propofol in his body when he died, coroner’s office documents show.

Obama to nominate Ben Bernanke for second Federal Reserve term

‘With bold action and outside-the-box thinking that has helped put the brakes on our economic freefall,’ US president will say.