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Tony Blair has shrugged off his failure to become EU president, insisting he did not want the job. Friends said Mr Blair decided days earlier he wanted the plum post only if it was a proper presidential role but EU leaders...
3,000 years after King Tut, long-time President Hosni Mubarak is clearing the way for a successor – likely his son Egypt's dynastic drama didn't end with King Tut. And more than 3,000 years later, as an exhibition of King Tut's...
Montreal's Café Cléopâtre is fighting to keep the bad old ways alive Its address has been synonymous with sin, swing and a little bada bing for nearly a century. And now, the Café Cléopâtre is fighting to keep the bad old ways...
An Inspiring List of Theme Party Ideas Theme parties never go out of fashion. From 'When I Grow Up' to 'Adults Only', this list offers a theme party idea to suit everyone. The benefits of a theme party are endless - they build...
Baroness Ashton of Upholland talks quickly, sometimes so quickly she can be hard to follow. By James Kirkup in Brussels Baroness Ashton Photo: JEFF GILBERT After one debate in the House of Lords, the Bishop of Portsmouth passed...
If the past is another country, Ed Balls has just confiscated the passports of our schoolchildren Ed Balls has announced that primary school history is to be subsumed into an "area of learning" called "historical, geographical...
Lord Rogers was employed to create public spaces for Londoners The Mayor of London's architectural aide resigned because he felt Boris Johnson had "blocked" his attempts to create public spaces, it has emerged. Letters between...
Jim White imagines the scene as Prince Wales drops in to the Jedward Academy school to test the students' grasp of traditional subjects. [The scene is the Jedward Academy, Islington, a school specialising in the promotion of...
Lunch with the FT: Evgeny Lebedev By Peter Aspden I wouldn’t dream of asking most of my Lunch with the FT guests what they are thinking of spending their money on in the near future. Right now this particular Russian, the...
Prince William and Prince Harry have used money left to them by their mother to secretly set up a charity. The brothers are believed to have donated a six-figure sum to create a foundation funding causes for underprivileged...
