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Asha Jama knew that something had gone wrong, but she had not yet comprehended just how horribly wrong. At first, she thought that the car she had been travelling in [...]

A dozen children, dressed in a jumble of white gym kit and plimsolls, are racing along a stretch of freshly mown grass to shrieks of encouragement from their classmates. It [...]

JOHN PRESCOTT faces an investigation by Parliament's ethics watchdog into his stay with the American billionaire owner of the Millennium Dome. Sir Philip Mawer will examine whether the Deputy Prime [...]

Josie Pollen had always feared the sound of a phone ringing in the middle of the night. So when it rang in the early hours one morning last July, she [...]

To his closest friends, it should come as no surprise that Prince Philip will be marking his 85th birthday next Saturday with a resounding silence. Although palace insiders say that [...]

THE ARCHBISHOP of Canterbury today attacks society's obsession with books such as The Da Vinci Code which, he says, encourage people to believe that the Christian faith is a series [...]

Auction Mouse has never entirely seen the point of watching Formula 1 on television when you can walk out of your front door on a Saturday night and cheer on [...]

DANIEL COHN-BENDIT Age: 60 Revolutionary inheritance: Strong anti-Fascist credentials. Born near Toulouse after his mother and lawyer father fled Nazi Germany in 1933. His parents returned to Germany in 1957. [...]

It is just as well, all things considered, that David Cameron promptly gave up smoking as soon as he was elected the new, squeaky-clean Tory leader. What with a 9p [...]

John Humphrys: 'We're here to talk about food and I imagine that we're going to try and address the concerns that I have, that most people have, which is a [...]

IT IS Friday night on the Champs Elysees and I am signing autographs. Three hysterical fans are screaming my name and my bodyguard is trying his hardest to keep them [...]

They're a canny lot, those politicians. No sooner have they voted for a smoking ban in enclosed public spaces than it emerges that the House of Commons smoking room will [...]

Sunny Jacobs always thought that if you told the truth, people would believe you. So when, in 1976, she found herself on trial for a double murder she did not [...]

THE DISGRACED comedian Michael Barrymore has been thrown a lifeline by one of television's most powerful figures after he was named as the surprise runner-up on Channel 4's Celebrity Big [...]

A crowd of tourists is sheltering from the drizzle underneath the awning of a multiplex cinema. It is Friday night in Leicester Square, central London, and the billboards above their [...]

Auction Mouse is saddened by the premature demise of the gentleman's library; that leather-upholstered retreat from household mundanities for pipe-smoking country squires. Now it seems to have disappeared into the [...]

Every Thursday evening at around six o'clock, Terence goes to visit his mother in north London. 'It's nice to get away from everything, sit down and have a good old [...]

IN THE draughty furniture workshop of a small Italian town, Salvatore Mancini is preparing himself for a run on wardrobes. 'I imagine more people will begin to ask me for [...]

FEMALE science fiction fans now outnumber men for the first time. The digital television channel Sci Fi UK has seen a 10 per cent rise in the number of female [...]

In the normal course of events, you are introduced to someone and only later - assuming you are lucky - do you get to see them butt naked. Not so [...]

EMILY Blount would be the first to acknowledge that the past year of her life has not exactly been run of the mill. First, there was the small matter last [...]

HE IS infamous for his raging four-letter-word tirades but now Gordon Ramsay has managed to insult 50 per cent of the population without uttering a single expletive. The television chef [...]

IT bore all the hallmarks of the most acrimonious break-up. First there were the arguments; the constant petty recriminations that they weren't spending enough time together; the unreturned telephone calls. [...]

A 38-YEAR-OLD woman who underwent a sex change operation to become a man has been registered by the General Medical Council as a general practitioner. Dr Richard Curtis, as he [...]

THERE ARE certain rules women follow when shopping on the high street. Don't try on bikinis - such behaviour is universally acknowledged to be the quickest way to a Prozac [...]

THE SMILING couple enjoying an alfresco lunch in one of Paris's busiest street cafes did not notice that they were being photographed. In an unguarded moment, the man, dressed casually [...]

1953 Born in Romford, Essex to Victor, a greengrocer, and Emma 1970 Publishes his first book, a 'skinhead novel', The Kids 1976 Hired by the NME after working in a [...]

Rhys Gray does not immediately strike one as an out-of-control tearaway. 'Hello, nice to meet you,'' he says as soon as he opens the door to his father's Knightsbridge mews [...]

Quite honestly, this is all terribly disappointing. I'd been looking forward to meeting Olga Polizzi in one of her two tasteful country hotels, preferably while reclining on an antique chaise [...]

The fresh-faced young man who walked into a roomful of trainee reporters looked more like a professional surfer than the heir to one of the world's most powerful media corporations. [...]

IT WAS worth the wait. Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince was last night on course to become the biggest selling book in UK publishing history. Bookshops and supermarkets across [...]

YESTERDAY looked like the perfect day to head for the beach in Kusadasi. It was 31°C under a cloudless sky and holidaymakers who boarded an early-morning minibus taxi to the [...]

REPORTING TEAM Andrew Alderson, Olga Craig, Elizabeth Day, Tony Freinberg, Nina Goswami, David Harrison, Chris Hastings, Julie Henry, Beth Jones, Adam Lusher, Karyn Miller, Peter Zimonjic IT WAS the day [...]

The Old Vicarage in Kintbury, Berkshire, is reached by a gentle towpath populated by quacking mallard ducks. A church spire casts a slight shadow over the gravel driveway and the [...]

Paulo Coelho is dressed entirely in black, as befits a spiritual sage whose books take as their subject the eternal human enigma. He is small, delicately proportioned and his soft [...]

THEY CAME. They sang. They wore sequins. The Eurovision Song Contest was won by Greece last night, amid a flurry of dry ice, ruffled satin and heavily-accented English. The winning [...]

It is Friday morning at Harrods department store in Knightsbridge, central London. In the brightly lit beauty department, jars of face cream compete for space on the shelves alongside shiny [...]

SIXTY YEARS after the Allied victory over fascism in Europe, Britain is still ``obsessed with the Nazi period'' and ``ignorant'' about German history after 1945, Berlin's highly regarded ambassador to [...]

It was 1977 when Thomas Matussek first came to England as a 30-year-old German diplomat on his first posting to London. Leo Sayer and David Soul were enjoying Number One [...]

ABIGAIL WITCHALLS, the young mother who was left paralysed in a vicious stabbing in Surrey last week, is pregnant with her second child, it was reported last night. Mrs Witchalls, [...]

It's a mystery where Peaches Geldof gets all her opinions from. Talking to her is like playing a peculiar word-association game, with me throwing out random nouns to see what [...]

THE HEAD of the Roman Catholic Church in England and Wales today compares abortion in Britain to the eugenic practices of Nazi Germany. Writing in The Sunday Telegraph, Cardinal Cormac [...]

ACADEMICS from around the world are convening in Britain for the first Harry Potter conference. The Harry Potter books, written by J K Rowling, have sold more than 200 million [...]

THE MOTHER of a terminally ill baby boy who died after the High Court ruled that doctors could withhold life-saving treatment, is to press for a criminal investigation. Ruth Winston-Jones [...]

A visitor to the drawing rooms of Clarence House last Thursday lunchtime would have been met with the sound of easy laughter and the chink of champagne glasses. Surrounded by [...]

REGAL is not quite the word for it. The battle to cash in on the Prince of Wales's wedding to Camilla Parker Bowles has begun with manufacturers of royal memorabilia [...]

THE PHOTOGRAPH of Muslim teenagers playing by an advertising hoarding emblazoned with a Nazi swastika and National Front logo could be straight out of a documentary on inner city decay. [...]

MARY'S EYES are shining with the zeal of a missionary on the verge of a heathen conversion. ``These,'' she says, pointing at her feet, ``are the most incredible shoes you [...]