Sources: iPad 2 lands in thinner body with spec bump and cameras, SD slot and higher resolution display are out

The Apple rumors game can be a volatile thing.

Miuccia Prada Brings On the Dress, Innocently

There were no pants in the Prada show on Thursday night, and I think I counted only one skirt. The drop-waist dress and coat dress, loose-fitting and above the knee, were the story of this relatively straightforward Prada collection with a strong hint of the school uniform.

Pamela Timms: The Delia of old Delhi

Expat Pamela Timms is a sensation on the Indian culinary scene thanks to her ‘Eat and Dust’ blog and her fresh take on traditional dishes.

Fin-de-Siècle Hothouse, Plush and Neurotic

There’s no modernism like Viennese modernism, that amazingly fraught, conflicted efflorescence of art and thought that flared up around the turn of the 20th century. As the Austro-Hungarian Empire sank into paralysis in the decades before World War I, Freud discovered the unconscious lurking, unsurprisingly, behind the city’s repressive social codes. Otto Wagner and Adolf Loos designed buildings that rejected the historicist wedding-cake facades of the Ringstrasse. Arnold Schoenberg pursued atonal music in the perfumed wake of the Viennese waltz; and Gustav Klimt painted beautiful women surrounded by mosaic patterns straight out of Byzantium.

Serious? Snarky? Oscar Courts a Social Medium

In one of the latest promotions for the Oscar telecast on Sunday, the hosts, James Franco and Anne Hathaway, do something almost unheard of: they spoof the self-seriousness of the whole endeavor.

Prada autumn/winter 2011 at Milan Fashion Week

Prada was an hour late, but worth the wait: sexy, charming and an introduction to a new ageless innocence.

£15,000 guitar signed by Jack White stolen in London

Police appeal for instrument’s return

Radiohead: The King of Limbs – review

It’s hard to think of an album that sparked more internet discussion in such a short space of time as Radiohead’s The King of Limbs did last Friday.

How will America handle the fall of its Middle East empire?

Empires can collapse in the course of a generation. At the end of the 16th century, the Spanish looked dominant. Twenty-five years later, they were on their knees, over-extended, bankrupt, and incapable of coping with the emergent maritime powers of Britain and Holland. The British empire reached its fullest extent in 1930. Twenty years later, it was all over.

Kate Middleton passes first Royal test

The couple carried out one of the most traditional of tasks by launching a new RNLI lifeboat on Angelsey, impressing the crowd by singing the Welsh national anthem fluently.