Mr Talansky’s testimony has seriously damaged Mr Olmert’s reputation Lawyers for Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert are questioning a US businessman at the centre of a corruption investigation against him. Morris Talansky has already testified that he gave Mr Olmert envelopes full of cash in 2006, before the Kadima Party leader became prime minister. The

Sir Cliff Richard’s first hits are due to go out of copyright on 1 January 2009 Ageing rock stars and session musicians will keep receiving royalties for their old recordings for the rest of their lives under a European Union plan. Performers currently lose the rights to their recordings after 50 years. Veteran artists like Sir

Riccardo Ricco is the highest-profile of the three riders so far ejected from this year’s Tour de France. A third cyclist has been kicked out of the 2008 Tour de France for drug use following a positive test by promising Italian rider Riccardo Ricco. Ricco, who had won two stages in this month’s prestigious event, was taken

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Pope Benedict XVI waves to pilgrims gathered for Thursday during World Youth Day on Thursday, in Sydney, Australia. SYDNEY, Australia — Pope Benedict XVI used his first major address at the Roman Catholic Church’s youth festival here on Thursday to warn that the world was being scarred and its natural resources used up by humanity’s

Holmes also played a lawyer in the 2005 Batman film, Batman Begins Former Dawson’s Creek star Katie Holmes will return to the small screen, with a guest role in the comedy series Eli Stone, opposite Jonny Lee Miller. “I went and I begged her,” said former Dawson’s Creek producer Greg Berlanti, who is co-creator of

GUANTANAMO BAY: A one-time driver for Osama bin Laden helped the FBI try to track down his boss, his former interrogators testified yesterday. Salim Hamdan led agents to the al-Qa’ida chief’s compounds in Kandahar and mapped out his movements among safehouses, training camps and other remote corners of Afghanistan in the month following the September 11,

Future Bastard … Brad Pitt with his wife Angelina Jolie. Photograph: Kate Wrigglesworth/AP Quentin Tarantino is lining up Leonardo DiCaprio and Brad Pitt for his forthcoming tribute to the Dirty Dozen films, Inglorious Bastards. The film-maker has been shopping his script for the wartime tale, which he wants to screen in two sections, around Hollywood studios in

Egyptian Film Actor Omar Sharif Critics say film fails to lay blame for religious tensions in Egypt where it belongs – with the state. CAIRO - A new film seeking to smash Egypt’s sectarian taboos takes a light approach to Muslim-Christian relations but critics say it fails to lay the blame for religious tensions where it belongs

Happy parents Florence Addo-Gerth and Stephan Gerth with their newborn twins Ryan (right) and Leo (left). Twins with different skin colors — one black and the other white — have been born in Berlin, Germany. Doctors say it is an extremely rare occurrence, but it is possible if genes combine in a certain way. The twin boys, named