Published on May,25 2012 - by The Daily Telegraph
S&P cuts the credit rating of five Spanish banks, including three to "junk," as struggling lender Bankia requests €19bn in state aid and Catalonia calls for assistance from central government to pay its bills. ...
Published on May,25 2012 - by Agence France Presse
Aniello Arena, the winsome Neapolitan in the running for best actor award at Cannes, is a former mafia hitman serving a life sentence who got his lucky break in a prison theatre company.Arena, 44, has won over critics ...
Published on May,25 2012 - by The Daily Telegraph
Two British exhibitions in Oslo celebrate the work of Edvard Munch this summer. Nina Caplan follows the artist’s trail and its surroundings. That game where the challenge is to name 10 famous Canadians makes more sense i ...
Published on May,25 2012 - by The Daily Telegraph
Sadie Frost is an endearing and charismatic performer in Touched... Like a Virgin at Soho Theatre, finds Laura Thompson. The snappers outside the Soho Theatre were waiting for friends of Sadie Frost, star of this one ...
Published on May,25 2012 - by The Daily Telegraph
Alison Steadman will play Ginny Fox - a spoof of Virginia Woolf - in the comedy Gloomsbury on BBC Radio 4 next month. Gavin & Stacey's Alison Steadma n is to star in a series parodying the Bloomsbury literary crowd ...
Published on May,25 2012 - by The Daily Telegraph
The "Yes Scotland" campaign has been a damp squib – and it looks as though the nationalist movement has reached its high-water mark, writes Alan Cochrane. On the basis of the launch of the “Yes Scotland” campaign yeste ...
Published on May,25 2012 - by The Daily Telegraph
Suspended animation. Mind control. Operations performed over the internet. Dr Richard Satava, pioneer of ‘outrageous surgery’, believes all this – and much more – will soon be possible You have 2.5 billion heart beats i ...
Published on May,25 2012 - by The Daily Telegraph
One of Britain’s highest paid civil servants is a temporary official working on the controversial high speed rail project at a cost to the taxpayer up to £450,000 a year, The Daily Telegraph has learnt. Mark Bayley is am ...
Published on May,25 2012 - by The Daily Telegraph
Edward Norton tells David Gritten why he’s been off cinema screens lately – and why Moonrise Kingdom lured him back . One of many things that intrigue people about Wes Anderson, the American writer-director of Rus ...
Published on May,25 2012 - by The Daily Telegraph
On the evidence of this West End revival, Joe Orton's Sixties farce is now rather dated – but it's still riotously entertaining It is the trick of farceurs to make you laugh at something that, were it happening to you, ...