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Almodovar bites back with cannibal woman
Oscar-winning director returns to his roots with a ‘naughty’ short film
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Convicted of bribery, Jowell’s husband faces four years in jail
Wednesday, 18 February 2009
Italian court finds David Mills guilty of receiving £530,000 from Berlusconi.
Guadeloupe ‘on verge of revolt’ as workers riot over cost of living
Wednesday, 18 February 2009
Police used tear gas on protesters during clashes on the French Caribbean island of Guadeloupe, where a four-week strike in protest at the rising cost of living has disrupted commerce and tourism.
Tempers ruffled as Italian group defends honour of rare white truffles
Wednesday, 18 February 2009
The Alba white truffle association, based in the heart of Italy’s truffle country, is campaigning to defend the image of the rare fungus as a dispute involving a restaurant bill heads for the courts.
David Mills: The brilliant, well-connected lawyer who was too impulsive for his own good
Wednesday, 18 February 2009
Brilliant and extroverted, master of four languages and the clarinet, the man sentenced to four and a half years in jail by a court in Milan yesterday is one of the best-connected lawyers in Britain, with a network of influential friends and relations, most of them on or around the summit of New Labour.
Minister's husband jailed for Berlusconi 'bribe'
Tuesday, 17 February 2009
David Mills was today sentenced to four and a half years in prison for taking a bribe from the Italian Prime Minister.
Expat cash for Kosovo stops flowing
Tuesday, 17 February 2009
Independence day marked by fears for Europe's poorest state
Will there be another Russian revolution?
Tuesday, 17 February 2009
As the cold, hard realities of the global economic meltdown hit home in Russia's remote industrial 'monotowns', Vladimir Putin is facing the first serious challenges to his authority. Is anarchy just around the corner? Shaun Walker reports from the Urals
France accepts 'responsibility' for deportations
Tuesday, 17 February 2009
Paris: France's top judicial body has recognised the government's responsibility for the deportation of Jews during the Second World War.
Failing Spanish builder used TV tips to rob banks and pay debts
Monday, 16 February 2009
One-man raids modelled on series about notorious outlaw called El Solitario
Knox 'had scratched neck' after Kercher murder
Sunday, 15 February 2009
Amanda's confidence wanes as Meredith's friend speaks of defendant's unexplained wound.
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1 Almodovar bites back with cannibal woman
2 Convicted of bribery, Jowell’s husband faces four years in jail
3 Minister's husband jailed for Berlusconi 'bribe'
4 Will there be another Russian revolution?
5 Step aside, Sartre: this is the new face of French intellectualism
6 Guadeloupe ‘on verge of revolt’ as workers riot over cost of living
7 David Mills: The brilliant, well-connected lawyer who was too impulsive for his own good
8 Tempers ruffled as Italian group defends honour of rare white truffles
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