A hundred years after his birth, have successors such as Robin Williams, Steve Coogan or Sacha Baron Cohen come close to ...

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Donald Trump picks winners and losers in corporate America now. This opens up thrilling new opportunities for anyone who ...

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Figures from Goldman Sachs and Chinese data provider Wind that offer a snapshot of the country’s vast credit markets show ...

Vera Stephanie Buchthal was born in Dortmund, Germany, in September 1933, months after Adolf Hitler had come to power. Her father was a judge but, as a Jew, his career was now over. Her mother, from a ...

A primetime TV talent show each summer selects the nation’s most idyllic village. But in Saint-Antoine-l’Abbaye, not everyone is happy ...

The ‘12 Years a Slave’ star discusses his new film ‘The Life of Chuck’, why theatre changed him and how the camera gets ‘behind the eyes’ ...

The sculptor of the CIA’s ‘Kryptos’ has spent decades guarding its last secret code. What happens when he’s gone?

I’ve joined him, and his wife and videographer, Savannah, in Wigan on an overcast Wednesday in May. They’ve been here once before, on a trip that resulted in a cheeky video, asking: “Where is the nice ...

Students at Blundell’s, a prestigious boarding school on the outskirts of the market town of Tiverton, Devon, had just returned from their half-term break. Thursday evenings were “family fun” time at ...

This is far from just a British phenomenon. One US survey found that most people now consider friendship itself to be “expensive”. Six per cent of Australians say they have “broken up” with an ...