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No royal wedding for Harry Windsor

10.10.06 FORMER PRINCE HARRY today underscored his determination to remain outside public life when he married 26-year-old Sarah Bocking at Brighton register office 		 
Stallone and Willis feared dead in Hollywood quake

13.04.06 ACTION MOVIE heroes Sylvester Stallone and Bruce Willis are feared to be among those killed when an earthquake hit Los Angeles
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Our mutual Auntie

12.06.06 THE BBC will be mutualised after its charter expires at the end of December. All licence fee payers will become shareholders with a vote. Greg Dyke, the millionaire television executive who made his reputation at TV-am and London Weekend Television, is named interim chief executive 		 

Kitchen can't take the heat

19.03.06 THE IDEAL Home exhibition had to be closed temporarily when a visitor was attacked by the kitchen of a smart house

Chips with everything

16.11.06 THE CHIPPING DEBATE took a welcome turn when little Keri P, was reunited with her mother, Jackie, after an agonising 18-week absence

  • The break-up of Iraq is likely following the death of Saddam Hussein in April of natural causes.

    The newly launched Parents' Coalition, which opposes increased privatisation in schools, met the Secretary of state for Education to protest at lack of parental choice in secondary education and the exclusion of children with low emotional and intelligence quotients. It believes that the EQ/IQ tests introduced last year have resulted in a disproportionate number of middle-class children not securing school places. PF

  • Nasa's space business will grow dramatically when VentureStar replaces the Space Shuttle this year. Totally reusable, the Mach 15 VentureStar brings the cost of launching a payload down from $10,000/lb to $100. SC

  • The Group of Six meeting in Tokyo ended in chaos as the Chinese and Russian delegations walked out claiming Japan was trying to destabilise Russia to gain control of the resource wealth of Siberia and the Urals. Any breakaways by Russia's eastern regions could result in a Moscow-Beijing military alliance ­ and a possible repeat of the 2003 nuclear conflict. The G6 emerged from the G3 group formed in 2003 to concentrate membership on the main currencies, the dollar, the euro and the yen. Britain was forced to leave but India, Russia and China joined in 2004. PR