David Mellor, the former Tory minister, lost his High Court bid yesterday to avoid buying a stake in an antique company which he accused of doctoring heirlooms to drive up the price.

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Letter in response to Ben Downings review of Daisy Hays Young Romantics.

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A biography of the banker Siegmund Warburg, who built his empire in London after his flight from Nazi Germany.

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A biography of the banker Siegmund Warburg, who built his empire in London after his flight from Nazi Germany.

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A trial could offer the first glimpse of a technology that may hold vast medical promise but also is embroiled in controversy.

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SAN DIEGO (AP) – Kenneth Branagh is directing “Thor” for Marvel Studios, and some think it’s a stretch for him to take on a superhero movie. He’s more Shakespearean, having adapted several of the Bard’s films for the big screen. But the 49-year-old actor-director says Shakespeare’s characters aren’t unlike today’s superheroes. Shakespeare …

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ONE of the archaeologists who dug up gardens in Brighton in search of new victims of serial killer Peter Tobin, 63, has spoken of her disappointment at not finding a body.

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ONE of the archaeologists who dug up gardens in Brighton in search of new victims of serial killer Peter Tobin, 63, has spoken of her disappointment at not finding a body.

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HANSEL AND GRETEL *** BYRE THEATRE, ST ANDREWS

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What’s Your Reaction’ TEHRAN, Iran A 5.7-magnitude earthquake rattled the northeast Iranian city of Torbat-e Heydariyeh on Friday, injuring at least 110 people.

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Twitter is in the midst of rolling out a new feature called Suggestions for You that offers up personalized recommendations of users that you might want to follow on the microblogging service. Youll find the new feature under the Find

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How does the modern-day peacock navigate our post-metrosexual age’ If the men’s collections are any indication, with a full face of makeup. Painted faces turned…

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How does the modern-day peacock navigate our post-metrosexual age’ If the men’s collections are any indication, with a full face of makeup. Painted faces turned…

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Hey, I participated in an insignificant way in this, the deal is that you have power, working with others in social media, time to use…

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Spotify has vehemently denied an American news report that its negotiations in the US have made no progress, saying it is “still on track to launch in 2010″.

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An exhibition of paintings by a seven-year-old artist from Norfolk sells out, fetching about £150,000 in half an hour.

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An exhibition of paintings by a seven-year-old artist from Norfolk sells out, fetching about £150,000 in half an hour.

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Prescriptions for drugs to treat diabetes have increased 40 per cent in five years as the obesity epidemic and improved diagnosis increases the number of people on the medicines.

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Recession, illness and a bad winter are flagged up as factors behind a difficult year for an airports operator.

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Thanks to thousands of years of skull morphing, the brains of some domestic dogs have shifted and a key component relocated

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The latest version of Googles 3D map application, Google Earth, now has the ability to display real-time rain and snow in certain parts of the world. To see it, you must first enable the clouds layer, and

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Electrons trapped inside strain bubbles in graphene act as if they were in an incredibly powerful magnetic field good news for future electronics

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NEW YORK (AP) New Yorkers can now pay allegiance to their borough with their shoes. Nike is offering limited-edition sneakers featuring different colors, logos and identifying laces for each of the city’s five boroughs.

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The World Bank has provided US63 million (Sixty Three Million United States Dollars) grant to the government of Liberia for the implementation of Employment and skills projects in the country.

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THE Queen Victoria cruise liner will sail along the Firth of Forth today as it continues on its historic tour of Great Britain.

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THE Queen Victoria cruise liner will sail along the Firth of Forth today as it continues on its historic tour of Great Britain.

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Watch where you click Online con artists have developed a strain of scareware that poses as a Firefox update.

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A LASTING legacy of The Tall Ships Races is fast taking shape in Hartlepool.

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UK scientists may have unravelled one of the long-standing mysteries of human fertility: why sperm cells tend to behave like tiny, surface-seeking missiles.

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Plans to reform A-levels could put students off maths and lead to university department closures, an academic body warns.

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Former House Speaker Newt Gingrich on Thursday said the greatest threat to national security is radical Islam, but the greatest battlefront for that threat is at home. “This is not a war on terrorism … this is a struggle with radical Islamists,” Mr. Gingrich told a group of about 200 …

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Google said Thursday that its search engine was fully blocked in China, along with Google ads and mobile search. This is the first time that Google has been blocked since March, when it closed its search service in China and began automatically redirecting users to an uncensored search engine in Hong Kong after a standoff over censorship.

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Major reforms of A-levels will lead to a “collapse” in the number of children studying mathematics to a high standard, according to teachers.

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Where are you now and what can you see’

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WHEN David Benson began writing a play about the Lockerbie bombing, he had no idea the issue was about to erupt once again.

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Even within the constant shapeshifting of Haitian politics, Marc Louis Bazin’s curriculum vitae was quite unique. He was a World Bank development economist when he was named minister for economy and finance in Jean-Claude “Baby Doc” Duvalier’s brutal and corrupt dictatorship in 1982. He was sacked and exiled after he criticised Duvalier’s corruption and won the public nickname “Mr Clean” a …

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One afternoon earlier this summer, in a Somerset meadow, David Crisp stumbled upon 52,000 Romano-British coins, the second-largest such hoard of its kind ever unearthed and presently on exhibit in the British Museum. Almost 800 of these were minted during the reign of Carausius, which lasted from around AD286 until AD293, the first ruler since the conquest in AD43 to govern Britain without the …

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The iPhone 4 has finally made it to these shores and for once the delay has been a good thing.

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An American man has found after a 27-year-search the wreckage of a Second World War bomber in which his air force pilot cousin was killed.

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A guide to selected performances of classical music in New York and the region.

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Zach Braff follows Scrubs with a dream job Off Broadway, in Paul Weitzs new play, Trust, at the Second Stage Theater.

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Artists are the central nervous system of a city and Los Angeles is no different.

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The Original Copy: Photography of Sculpture, 1839 to Today, which opens at MoMA on Sunday, is brainy and bookish and gives us new ways of looking at art.

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Microsoft Corp. Chief Executive Officer Steve Ballmer said tablet computers are a big issue for him as Apple Inc. seized the momentum in a category Microsoft has worked on for more than a decade.

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NEW YORK (AP) A 1912 painting that was stolen by the Nazis and became the subject of a lengthy legal dispute has gone on display. The small, brightly colored painting called “Portrait of Wally” by Austrian expressionist Egon Schiele will be at the Museum of Jewish Heritage for three weeks.

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The worlds population will top 7 billion next year, while the ratio of working age adults to the elderly will decline precipitously in developed countries.

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Have you lost Spotify’ It’s easy to download and re-install the application

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What’s Your Reaction’ Art has a unique way of propelling societies toward change by raising awareness of pertinent issues through aesthetically-pleasing and compelling imagery.

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The Cambridge Folk festival kicks off at 6pm today. If you don’t know your Seasick Steve from your Ukulele Orchestra of Great Britain, check out our guide to the best acts due to perform at what has been described as “the big daddy” of folk fiestas.

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Edinburgh’s arts festival begins in the capital for its seventh year and will run until 17 October.

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