Wednesday, 22 June 2011

Ditched at the altar! 20 Jun 2011
The Times of India Hugh Hefner must be frothing at the mouth, seeing the way he was chucked like a hot potato by his 25-year-old fiancée Crystal Harris days before their grand wedding. Media reports cite 85-year-old Playboy founder's mingy allowance for his 'gold-digger' gal as a reason behind the debacle. But, Hugh...
The Australian BILLY Hughes didn't expect to have to fight an election in 1895. Having first won a seat for Labor in the NSW parliament the previous...
Irish Times CHARLIE TAYLOR Irish writer Emma Donoghue is the bookies' favourite to win the Orange Prize for fiction this evening for her novel Room.� The winner of the �30,000 award will be announced at a ceremony to be held at the Royal Festival Hall in London tonight. Room� is 2/1 to win the prize according...
Irish Times CHARLIE TAYLOR Tea Obreht is the surprise winner of the Orange Prize for Fiction for her debut novel, receiving �30,000 and a bronze statuette called "the Bessie" after overcoming competition from Irish writer Emma Donoghue and four other novelists. At 25, the Serbian-American writer is the youngest...
The Daily Mail He said he'd sworn off glamour girls after his disastrous marriage to Katie Price - but it seems that Alex Reid has had a massive change of heart. The 35-year-old former cage-fighter has rarely been seen without that very particular kind of lady on his arm over the past few weeks - and last night...
The Daily Mail He said he'd sworn off glamour girls after his disastrous marriage to Katie Price - but it seems that Alex Reid has had a massive change of heart. The 35-year-old former cage-fighter has rarely been seen without that very particular kind of lady on his arm over the past few weeks - and last night...
The Guardian Tea Obreht has picked up this year's Orange Prize for Fiction, becoming the youngest ever winner in the process. The 25-year-old, who was born in the former Yugoslavia but now lives in the United States, published her debut novel earlier this year. The Tiger's Wife is the story of a young doctor on...
The Guardian Surprise victory for The Tiger's Wife makes Obreht the award's youngest ever winner Orange prize winner Tea Obreht. Photograph: Beowulf Sheehan...
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