U.N. Passes Nuclear-Safeguards Plan

By JONATHAN WEISMAN
Associated Press

Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad listens to the speakers at the U.N. on Wednesday.
NEW YORK — The United Nations Security Council on Thursday unanimously approved a nuclear-safeguards resolution drafted by the Obama administration to lay the legal framework for military and diplomatic action against nations that use civilian nuclear technology for military purposes.
The [...]

Viewers turn against BBC as Strictly loses out to X Factor in ratings clash

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Patrick Foster, Media Correspondent

The BBC is refusing to reschedule Strictly Come Dancing to avoid its clash with The X Factor, despite an audience backlash that led to the BBC One dance show losing out to its ITV rival by two million viewers this weekend.
Politicians, viewers, and Simon Cowell called for the broadcasters to separate the [...]

London Fashion Week: Christopher Kane wows the fash pack

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The star of his generation showed an appropriately sophisticated collection that referenced the sensual work of Versace
Lisa Armstrong

Anna Wintour in the front row. Donatella to her left. Er, Joan Collins. And everyone else trying to look nonchalant while on their best behaviour and in their best togs, in contrast with the (carefully contrived) dressed-down codes [...]

Britain goes back to jam-making

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With sales of fruit, jars and preserving sugar soaring, making jam at home is no longer simply the preserve of the WI

For many women of my generation, jam-making has always seemed like the ultimate expression of domestic drudgery. My mother, who came of age in the late Sixties, would far rather spend September soaking up [...]

Moctezuma’s revenge? Tragic Aztec rules again at British Museum

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Rachel Campbell-Johnston, Chief Arts Critic

Little wonder that eyes goggle. Moctezuma: Aztec Ruler is guaranteed to make spectators stare like ancient Mexican gods. Myth comes to life at the British Museum as, in the climax to a series of turnstile-spinning exhibitions that have focused on the lives of four of the world’s great historical rulers, the [...]

Mackenzie Phillips, daughter of Mamas and Papas star, reveals their ‘incestuous affair’

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Veronica Schmidt

The daughter of the Mamas and Papas frontman John Phillips revealed yesterday that she was raped by her father as a teenager and then carried on a consensual incestuous affair with him for a decade.
In a harrowing interview with Oprah Winfrey, Mackenzie Phillips, 49, said that she had spent 30 years burdened by the [...]

Wii price cut steals thunder from Sony at Tokyo Game Show

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Leo Lewis and Nigel Kendall in Tokyo

Nintendo stole the thunder from its rivals at today’s opening of the Tokyo Game Show when it announced a $50 (£31) cut to the price of its Wii console.
The gambit will take the price of the world’s most popular games console down to $200 in North America and Y20,000 [...]

Frequently Asked Questions About Time Travel (2009)

As a so-called sci-fi movie, this British film won’t teach you the science behind time traveling; as a comedy, however, it is excellent.It is a typical British comedy, with funny and – in a sense – stupid characters who are out to solve a serious problem.

Never borrow a rubber in class

Americans are known for their “corruption” of Standard English, the pronunciation in particular, and for liberally peppering their conversations with slang.

skipping rape

This sign is not all that bad; “skipping rape” actually sounds like an anti-rape kit. On second thought, the image of a child and the word “rape” should never ever have to be associated. Ts is one of the heartrending, sad realities of our world.