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During troubled times it's easy to lose perspective.

As companies are lionized and richly rewarded for the latest tweak in the field of consumer electronics, it's easy to forget that there are many for whom basic technologies are still hopelessly out of reach.

And while the...

Around January this year experts on Wall Street and the City of London were convinced that the stockmarket was going to go boom.

The analysts and the traders, the chart nerds and the druids reading foxes entrails were in almost universal agreement: after a decade of shares going nowhere...

Sometimes one dress captures the imagination of the entire fashion industry. A couple of months ago, it was Miu Miu's tangerine 1960's shift dress. It was very Mad Men, it was autumnal bright, it was quirky and it simultaneously appeared on three of the top glossies' covers.

And now, for...

These are confusing times.

In the latest issue of Esquire magazine (UK), pop singer Katy Perry explains how she won the love of her fiance, UK comedian Russell Brand.

Her strategy? She refused to have sex with him. Well, on the first date, at least.

What the hell is it with all the tattoos?

Angelina Jolie has added yet another tattoo to her collection. You can see it here.

Her latest inking is a decorative swirl on the inside of her left arm. To the untrained eye, it looks like the tattoo...

Alexandra Richards, the 23-year-old daughter of Rolling Stones wildman guitarist Keith, has embarrassed her dad by posing nude for the latest issue of French Playboy. Well, almost nude. She does sport a pair of white converse sneakers in the raunchy shots. You can see the pictures here.

Wild child Miley Cyrus has added yet another tattoo to her collection. The 17 year old has the word LOVE etched into the anti helix of her right earlobe, possibly in tribute to her boyfriend, 20 year old Australian Liam Hemsworth. You can see her tattoo here.

The...

Lindsay Lohan has found her way back into Gerard Butler's arms. These pictures are the proof.

The Scottish actor, 40, and the 23-year-old Mean Girls met up at a mutual friend's pool party in Beverly Hills, California, over the weekend.

The pair arrived separately but seemed pleased to...

Courtney Love, 45, has posted some outrageous photos of herself on Facebook. You can see the pictures here. Go on take a look. You know you want to.

Love appears topless in some of the shots which are thought to have been taken a few years ago.

In...

Lindsay Lohan stripped to her underwear for a Malibu Beach photoshoot, but her court-ordered alcohol monitoring ankle bracelet stayed on. You can see the pictures here.

Lindsay will have to wear the bracelet, which monitors alcohol secreted by the skin, until a judge is satisfied she...

Sinead O'Connor looked totally unrecognizable when she attended a premier for U2's new tour movie U2360. See the astonishing pictures here.

Gone was the shaven head and Bambi eyes of yore. The 43 year old look dowdy in a grey cardigan and baggy black pants.

The singer has...

Paris Hilton: Is your vice-like grip on the public imagination starting to slip? Judging by these pictures, not if you can help it.

La Hilton was partying at Las Vegas nightclub Surrender this weekend when R'n'B star Ne-Yo called her to the stage.

While Ne-Yo sang his hit...

As you know recording star M.I.A. was yesterday lambasted in the NY Times for the contradictions in her lavish LA lifestyle and her political views regrading her homeland of Sri Lanka. In retaliation, M.I.A tweeted the phone number of author Lynn Hirschberg of the NY...

The wardrobe malfunction is back as new pictures of a newly raunchified Beyonce in a bikini prove. You can see them here.

Relaxing on a beach in Hawaii, the singer could have suffered embarrassment when the left strap halter-neck strap fell to one side and she...

Just when you thought Lady GaGa could not possibly beat her last crazy outfit she nudges the fashion bar that little bit higher/lower.

Last night she appeared on stage in Tokyo in an a revealing outfit crafted from what looked like lace and talcum...

I was one of the last journalists to interview Malcolm McLaren. I did it for Q, a UK music magazine.

I met McLaren at a coffee spot on 18th street, near Union Square (Le Pain Quotidien, if you know it). He chose the spot. If he was ill with...

As Hollywood denials go, it's pretty emphatic.

"There is no sex tape," Sandra Bullock, 45, told People magazine. Before adding, a little ominously, "There never has been one and there never will be one." Did you hear that Jesse? Did you hear that everyone?

Bullock was...

"We are getting the best stories we've ever published, " a tabloid newspaper editor said to me last week, "but nobody's buying the bloody newspaper!"

He had a point: since last Friday, some truly juicy tabloid stories have hit the newsstands

There was the release of country singer Mindy...

Last week a bona fide web scandal broke in the English newspapers that raises some big questions about what we are telling our children about the dangers of the web.

The daughter of Sir Bob Geldof, the pop star who pioneered Live Aid and invented the modern mega charity...

Never before seen pics of Angelina Jolie modeling a leopardskin print dress aged 15 are to go up for auction. You can see the pictures here.

The actress posed for photographer Harry Langdon in a series of sexy outfits that reveal her star potential from a young age.