Cricket Cool

This eerie image of an ancient bristlecone pine set against the backdrop of the Milky Way while a meteor streaked across the night sky has won the National Maritime Museum’s annual astronomy photographic competition. Related Stories Boyd Tonkin: A minister who banks on ideas Pakpoom Silaphan’s exhbition is a sign of the times A literary paradise on Earth: World’s best writers head for the Woodstock Literary Festival Così Fan Tutte is well-suited to modern times Indy Choice: Best of the new films

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Picturing the night sky

A perfect evening in the Puccini Festival in Torre del Lago: Renée Fleming, presented to the crowd as New York’s Queen of the Metropolitan Opera, is resplendent under the rising moon, singing an open-air gala concert in four languages. But the next morning, this corner of Tuscany becomes Torrents del Lago beneath a violent thunderstorm; heading out to interview the American diva, I’m up to my shins in floodwater. It feels gloriously operatic

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Queen of the Met reigns at Last Night of the Proms

Three times a hit in the Nineties and endlessly remixed before landing in the hands of Florence + the Machine, “You’ve Got the Love” dates back to 1986, when it was titled “You Got the Love”. Related Stories Cultural Life: Neil LaBute, playwright Boyd Tonkin: A minister who banks on ideas Pakpoom Silaphan’s exhbition is a sign of the times A literary paradise on Earth: World’s best writers head for the Woodstock Literary Festival Così Fan Tutte is well-suited to modern times

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Story of the Song: You’ve Got the Love, Florence + the Machine (2008)

Venice is an old-world European festival that is increasingly giving the impression it is under siege. Its lovely old buildings are crumbling

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Cinema weathers the storm in Venice

The transition from little girl family star to lady actress looking for grown-up material is an oft-trodden but rocky road for many of Hollywood’s finest. Related Stories Cultural Life: Neil LaBute, playwright Boyd Tonkin: A minister who banks on ideas Pakpoom Silaphan’s exhbition is a sign of the times A literary paradise on Earth: World’s best writers head for the Woodstock Literary Festival Così Fan Tutte is well-suited to modern times

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Screen Talk: Miley’s mileage

I frequently get sent music by bands I’ve never heard of. It tends to pile up in emails and CDs, but occasionally I’ll take a shot on one: reasons for doing so can be fickle – a good name or cover art – but more likely it will be if the music comes from a label I like.

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Caught in the Net: Women on the verge of a sonic meltdown

An exhibition of 80 self-portraits by Josephine King examining her battle with bi-polar disorder opens in London next week. Related Stories Hall of fame: Wigmore Hall begins its 110th anniversary season The Week In Radio: Won over by the fast and furious life of Brian Art of the art game: Peter Bazalgette reveals how curators can take control of their own media coverage The Third Man - behind the scenes commentary Independent Classical: Melody Moore podcast

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Portraits of bi-polar disorder by Josephine King

Melody Moore is well-named. Her parents must have had a sixth sense that she would be “melodious”. This exciting young American soprano has been making waves on both sides of the Atlantic

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Independent Classical: Melody Moore podcast

Oscar wining film The Third Man (1949) has been re-released on DVD and Blu Ray with commentary from assistant director Guy Hamilton, actor Simon Callow and other members of the production team. Related Stories Jenny Pockley takes Manhattan Hall of fame: Wigmore Hall begins its 110th anniversary season The Week In Radio: Won over by the fast and furious life of Brian Art of the art game: Peter Bazalgette reveals how curators can take control of their own media coverage

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The Third Man - behind the scenes commentary

Those who know Peter Bazalgette primarily as the man who brought Big Brother to these shores may not see him as the obvious authority on how the arts can grow its media presence at a time when it is braced for deep cuts. But the former Endemol chairman is the deputy chairman of the English National Opera (ENO) and is excited about the opportunities for arts institutions to bypass traditional media outlets and become programme-makers and broadcasters in their own right. Related Stories The fine art of the mockumentary Rearing carp: Dinner’s in the pond Jenny Pockley takes Manhattan Hall of fame: Wigmore Hall begins its 110th anniversary season The Week In Radio: Won over by the fast and furious life of Brian

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Art of the art game: Peter Bazalgette reveals how curators can take control of their own media coverage

An exhibition of paintings by British artist Jenny Pockley opens at a London gallery tomorrow. Related Stories Bollywood Podcast: Aamir Khan How to cook cheap and tasty college cuisine Theatre’s love affair with ménages à trois The fine art of the mockumentary Rearing carp: Dinner’s in the pond

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Jenny Pockley takes Manhattan

Aamir Khan is pretty much the first Bollywood star I fell in love with, the first person I wanted to ‘be’ when I was younger. Over the last two decades, Aamir has developed into one of the finest, idiosyncratic, genius and most adored actors in the industry. He has starred in some of the msot successful Bollywood films of all time, including last year’s truly exceptional, 3 Idiots.

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Bollywood Podcast: Aamir Khan

Ever wondered what your favourite tipple would look like under a microscope? No, we hadn’t either. But American scientist Michael Davidson did

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Beverages through a lens

“A terrible wrathful man, with a slow fuse burning in one end of his belly and a stick of dynamite in the other.” That was how Roald Dahl described his long-term American publisher Alfred Knopf in the New York Times in 1983 – but it could easily have applied to himself. Related Stories Well heeled: Manolo Blahnik and his left-hand woman The Fashion Audit: 06/09/2010 Ready To Wear: When it comes to luxury wool, fashion has upped the ante Digital Digest: 06/09/2010 When classic songs hit the wrong note

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Tales of the unexpected: The dark side of bedtime stories

Aviators The Biggles look is a having a moment this autumn, with labels such as Burberry and Acne showing a variety of Thirties-style, outdoorsy aviator jackets that have already spawned a thousand high street “homages”. Related Stories Well heeled: Manolo Blahnik and his left-hand woman The Fashion Audit: 06/09/2010 Ready To Wear: When it comes to luxury wool, fashion has upped the ante Digital Digest: 06/09/2010 When classic songs hit the wrong note

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Jacket required: Key buys for early autumn

Drinks in the office, smoking indoors, long lunches, hats, and institutionalised sexism. Historical detail are part and parcel of Mad Men’s gin-soaked charm, and the show’s faithful rendering of the 1960s has won a devoted following among design enthusiasts, influencing everything from catwalk fashions to an official range of Barbie dolls

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Why Mad Men is top of the props

According to Kristina Blahnik, one of the things that makes her uncle, Manolo, the happiest is being in his factory, where, she says, “he sings to himself”.

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Well heeled: Manolo Blahnik and his left-hand woman

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The Fashion Audit: 06/09/2010

Click on the image (right) to see this week’s fashion picks. Related Stories Murder! Incest! Cannibalism!: Why 1976 was a year of TV excess On the agenda: Fashion Designers’ Sketchbooks; Roundhouse Records; Joaquin Phoenix; Susie Poole’s Sister Lucy’s Great Big Family; Crucible; Wahaca Bruce Chatwin: Could this be the last great man of letters

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Fashion Audit: 06/09/2010

A series of captivating pictures of mushrooms and other funghi went on show for the first time today in Brighton. Related Stories One Minute With: Don Winslow, novelist Rachel Whiteread: ‘I’ve done the same thing over and over’ Young guns go for it at Turning Point Boyd Tonkin: The real power behind the tomes The tin can revolution: The humble invention that changed the way we live

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A series of captivating pictures of mushrooms and other fungi went on show for the first time today in Brighton. Related Stories Young guns go for it at Turning Point Boyd Tonkin: The real power behind the tomes The tin can revolution: The humble invention that changed the way we live Fruiting bodies exhibition opens in Brighton Indy Choice: Best of the new films

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The art of fungi

Related Stories Dog day afternoon for Stephen Frears One Minute With: Don Winslow, novelist Rachel Whiteread: ‘I’ve done the same thing over and over’ Young guns go for it at Turning Point Boyd Tonkin: The real power behind the tomes

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The Word On… Familial, Philip Selway

Why is one of Britain’s most accomplished songwriters not better known? Will her latest release redress that injustice?

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Thea Gilmore - Motherhood and the rebirth of a songstress

Lame family comedy” was how The Independent’s Anthony Quinn described Marmaduke, Hollywood’s latest child-friendly caper. Other reviewers have been less kind: “It’s suitable for kids, but only as a punishment”; “the human performances are utterly dismal”; “better than Cats & Dogs, but praise hardly comes much lower”

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How did all that movie talent crash?

For the first time, Hollywood is admitting that it pays to be long in the tooth – but only if you’re a vampire.

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Screen Talk: Blood money

I just tried to make a list of the things that Facebook knows about me. I started with mundane stuff that anyone reading the printed version of this column would already know – my name, my gender, the fact that I’m an unwilling sufferer of male-pattern baldness. It knows I’m currently obsessed with a band called Everything Everything, because I persist in sharing their videos on Facebook despite one friend thinking that they represent some kind of punk rock betrayal.

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Rhodri Marsden: Can four guys take on Facebook – and win?

The winner of the Red Bull Image Quest 2010, the world’s biggest action and adventure sports photography competition, was announced last night at a cermony at Trinity College, Dublin.

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Red Bull Image Quest 2010 winner announced

British artists Sam Bompas and Harry Parr, otherwise known as the “jellymongers”, recently took over a London house and turned it into “a walk-through dining experience.” Related Stories Ikea: Home is where the art is Rhodri Marsden: Can four guys take on Facebook – and win? Is Ryanair taking musicians for a ride? Camel milk?

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Video - Bompas & Parr’s walk-through dining experience

Lamb burgers with feta by Lotte Duncan Related Stories British street food: Real meals on wheels Ikea: Home is where the art is Rhodri Marsden: Can four guys take on Facebook – and win? Is Ryanair taking musicians for a ride? Camel milk

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Around the world in 80 dishes No.21: Greece

More than 100 posters charting a century of the Olympic Games will go on show in London tomorrow. Related Stories Virginia Ironside’s Dilemmas: disabled care A brief history of London Fashion Week Scents and sensibility: the history of perfume Let there be sculpture! Revealed: Hollywood’s most bankable stars, including Shia LeBeouf, Anne Hathaway and Jennifer Aniston

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Vintage posters capture a century of Olympic Games

Forbes have released their annual list of Hollywood’s most bankable stars, with some surprises in a list which includes Sarah Jessica Parker and Johnny Depp. Related Stories Dr Ed Walker: ‘Her foot was trapped under the engine

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Revealed: Hollywood’s most bankable stars, including Shia LeBeouf, Anne Hathaway and Jennifer Aniston

Twelve new sculptures have appeared at the New Art Centre in Wiltshire for its summer exhibition Let There Be Sculpture! . Related Stories Koons and Co join the country set Dr Ed Walker: ‘Her foot was trapped under the engine. They wanted me to do a quick amputation’ Virginia Ironside’s Dilemmas: disabled care A brief history of London Fashion Week Scents and sensibility: the history of perfume

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Let there be sculpture!

Unaccommodated man,” said King Lear on the blasted heath, “is no more but such a poor, bare, forked animal as thou art.” He might have added “rank”, too; the naked hairy man (or naked hairy woman) is a malodorous creature, bad as a goat, with the difference that I suppose Goat (A) finds the terrible downwind hogo of Goat (B) alluring, all other things being equal (or unequal, depending on the creatures’ preference).

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Scents and sensibility: the history of perfume

Click on the image (right) to see this week’s fashion picks. Related Stories Lie back and think of Genghis: Conn Iggulden reveals the inspirations behind his historical fiction ‘I was so cocksure with Jimi’: How rock photography pioneer Gered Mankowitz captured Hendrix and the cream of the 1960s Heroes in a half-shell: Skye Gyngell cooks with scallops Pardon my French: Actor Jean Reno speaks out on his compatriots’ attitude towards American cinema The ten best women’s flats

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Fashion Audit: 30/08/2010

I have just recorded my first single. Related Stories Tinker, tailor: Mismatched tailoring for men Dressing table: The best beauty products to help you chill out The corn supremacy: Mark Hix cooks with sweetcorn Carola Long: ‘The high street is now doing aviator jackets’ A retro revolution: Why do we love all things vintage?

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How a machine turned me into Chris de Burgh

My first time at Edinburgh was in 1996. I don’t think the festival has changed all that much. A lot of people complain that it’s become too commercial but I don’t think that’s the case, at its core it’s no different

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My Edinburgh: Brendon Burns

With the new chancellor wielding an axe over arts spending, creative types must look elsewhere for financial inspiration. One venture attracting interest among painters and sculptures is the Threadneedle Prize, now in its third year, which will award £25,000 to the maker of an “an outstanding new work of figurative art” next month. Related Stories Ignite set to transform Covent Garden into an enchanted forest The Diary: Edinburgh Book Festival; Royal Air Force; Tim Vine; Goldie Cultural Life: Philippa Gregory, novelist One Minute With: Tim Waterstone, novelist and entrepreneur The fan club goes digital

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The Threadneedle Prize for painting and sculpture

Related Stories David Mitchell: ‘Readers enable me to continue to do what I love. Prizes won’t do that for you’ Ignite set to transform Covent Garden into an enchanted forest The Diary: Edinburgh Book Festival; Royal Air Force; Tim Vine; Goldie Cultural Life: Philippa Gregory, novelist One Minute With: Tim Waterstone, novelist and entrepreneur

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The Word On… Surfing The Void, Klaxons

From Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger’s The Red Shoes to Robert Altman’s The Company, the cloistered world of ballet, its outward elegance masking a reality of pain, denial and intense rivalry, has long fascinated the movie industry. Related Stories David Mitchell: ‘Readers enable me to continue to do what I love. Prizes won’t do that for you’ Ignite set to transform Covent Garden into an enchanted forest The Diary: Edinburgh Book Festival; Royal Air Force; Tim Vine; Goldie Cultural Life: Philippa Gregory, novelist One Minute With: Tim Waterstone, novelist and entrepreneur

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Darkness and despair: that’s dance on screen

Related Stories David Mitchell: ‘Readers enable me to continue to do what I love. Prizes won’t do that for you’ Ignite set to transform Covent Garden into an enchanted forest The Diary: Edinburgh Book Festival; Royal Air Force; Tim Vine; Goldie Cultural Life: Philippa Gregory, novelist One Minute With: Tim Waterstone, novelist and entrepreneur

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My Fantasy Band: George Craig, One Night Only

It is accepted intelligence that the Hollywood studios no longer sign overhead deals with cigar-chomping fat-cat producers for the promise of the next blockbuster. The old days of movie chaps living it large on studio cash are long gone. Related Stories David Mitchell: ‘Readers enable me to continue to do what I love

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Screen Talk: On a Silver platter

Lissie is not feeling well. The 27-year-old singer-songwriter is slumped on a sofa in Sony headquarters’ reception, eating noodle soup.

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Lissie - A little bit country and a whole lot rock’n'roll

The ghost of Alan Clarke’s Scum makes its presence felt in this lowering tale of a youth correctional facility in the American Midwest. Related Stories David Mitchell: ‘Readers enable me to continue to do what I love. Prizes won’t do that for you’ Ignite set to transform Covent Garden into an enchanted forest The Diary: Edinburgh Book Festival; Royal Air Force; Tim Vine; Goldie Cultural Life: Philippa Gregory, novelist One Minute With: Tim Waterstone, novelist and entrepreneur

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Have you read any good films lately?

Foreign Secretary William Hague has come in for a lot of stick for yet another hat-related fashion faux-pas. Related Stories Rhodri Marsden: Kindling an affection for electronic readers Adoption: How I lost my little sister Artichokes: Going global How to make American pies The movie sequels that went one too far

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Hats off to the ones who wear ‘em well

This summer Toy Story 3 has received undoubtedly sparkling reviews. For younger viewers, it retained the magic of a world where toys come alive. For those who could remember the first film from way back in 1995, there was nostalgia - and a look at Andy fifteen years on as he prepares to leave for university

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The movie sequels that went one too far

“Shoes must have very high heels and platforms to put women’s beauty on a pedestal,” says iconic designer Vivienne Westwood. Related Stories Jennifer Aniston and the curse of ‘Friends’ ‘Male menopause – isn’t that a myth?’ Virginia Ironside’s Dilemmas: alcoholism Holidays with extended families: Wish you weren’t here Actors-turned-singers: Hugh Laurie sings the blues

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Vivienne Westwood shoes: An exhibition

Following the recent announcement of the Decanter World Wine Awards 2010, Decanter ’s Tastings Director, Christelle Guibert reveals some of the best finds right here on our doorstep. No less than 48 UK wines made an appearance on the medals table this year, with sparkling wines leading the charge. Here is her pick of the home-grown successes.

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Red, White & Rosé: the best UK wines

Next month the Royal Academy of Arts is set to showcase one of the finest art collections in Central Europe. Related Stories The ten best men’s jackets Jack London: Not just the voice of the wild Golden girls: The quiet charms of camel The Look Book: Fashion Inspiration Digital Digest: 23/08/2010

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Treasures from Budapest: From Leonardo to Schiele

The United States has a startling ability to take its most angry, edgy radicals and turn them into cuddly eunuchs. Related Stories Get your brain in gear: Pop philosophy is taking over the bookshops Tall tales: Meet the storytellers spinning edgy new yarns for the digital age Pick’n'mix: Skye Gyngell cooks with fresh English berries Fashion Audit: 23/08/2010 The ten best men’s jackets

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Jack London: Not just the voice of the wild

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Fashion Audit: 23/08/2010

In the old days one never arrived at a house without a jacket.

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How do I look?: Robert Boyd-Bowman, tailor, 65

Related Stories Cultural Life: Tricky, musician Country matters of the heart: Louise Dean returns to her roots The Barometer: Matt Costa; Marcus Foster; Gold Panda; Kid Cudi; Lia Ices; Kano; Colleen Green; Rhys Chatham My Edinburgh: Doc Brown, Comedian Archaos: When Hell’s Angels met Billy Smart’s

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My fantasy band: Bethany Cosentino, Best Coast

UK electro producer Gold Panda picked up a lot of attention last year for a string of sparkling EPs and remixes full of quiet beats and twitchy techno flourishes.

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Caught in the net: P-p-p-pick up a piece of Panda

Roll up, roll up – for an exhibition about the radical collectivist circus Archaos, running as part of the Mayor’s Thames Festival this September. Related Stories Funny girls: The women bringing political satire back to the Edinburgh Fringe Cultural Life: Tricky, musician Country matters of the heart: Louise Dean returns to her roots The Barometer: Matt Costa; Marcus Foster; Gold Panda; Kid Cudi; Lia Ices; Kano; Colleen Green; Rhys Chatham My Edinburgh: Doc Brown, Comedian

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Archaos: When Hell’s Angels met Billy Smart’s

Previously unseen photographs charting The Beatles’ formative years will go on display at Liverpool’s Victoria Gallery & Museum next week. Related Stories Hendrix in Britain and Handel’s house Free Independent Drama: Late poet Ted Hughes is remembered in Dreaming of Foxes Eat your art out: The art world has developed a taste for food My Edinburgh: David Nicholls, author Eat your art out: Artists develop a taste for food

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Unseen photos of The Beatles go on show

The late poet laureate Ted Hughes would have been 80 this month, and to mark the occasion, The Independent is giving you the chance to listen to and download an exclusive new drama by Made in Manchester/Dark Smile. Related Stories Katie Derham: ‘I feel I have got a part of myself back’ The vodka revolution Hendrix in Britain and Handel’s house Eat your art out: The art world has developed a taste for food My Edinburgh: David Nicholls, author

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Free Independent Drama: Late poet Ted Hughes is remembered in Dreaming of Foxes

The government said that the National Highways Authority of India (NHAI) has spent over Rs 53,202 crore on road projects during the last three financial years.

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NHAI spent Rs 53k crore on road projects

European Union nearly doubled its aid to flood-stricken Pakistan to 70 mn euros and announced a trip by its top aid official after calls for Brussels to do more to help.

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EU boosts flood aid to Pak to 70 mn euros

Soon it will all be over. Next Tuesday, the nation will decide whether John James, the handsome but peevish Australian, or Sam Pepper, the goofy prankster, or jolly Josie, the farm girl turned MC, or indeed somebody quite unforeseen is the housemate who should win the prize money of £50,000 plus a brief sojourn in the national limelight

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Big Brother: the series that made surveillance acceptable

Instead of the unwearable Spanish hat or the undrinkable Italian liqueur, why not bring back a more useful souvenir from your foreign holiday? From a supermarket outside Orvieto, we acquired two large, circular pans perfect for cooking risotto and braises.

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Scallopini? There’s a gadget for that

Anglo-Australian mining giant BHP Billiton on Wednesday launched a hostile takeover bid for Canada’s Potash Corp which values the world’s largest fertiliser producer at about 40 billion dollars.

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BHP Billiton launches $40-bn Potash bid

It has been 80 years since the first colour cartoon hit our screens. The Independent Online takes a look at how something made for children’s entertainment has expanded into a worldwide genre accessible to all ages. Related Stories Edinburgh festival’s high flyers Free podcast: Kerry Ellis interview Britons in New York The Independent Woodstock Literary Festival Rebecca Peyton: My grief made me dance, drink and cry

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From Mister Bug to Buzz Lightyear: 80 years of colour cartoons

Previously unseen portraits by photographer Jason Bell, Inspired by the 120,000 British men and women living in New York City, go on display at the National Portrait Gallery next week. Related Stories Fringe notes: 17/08/2010 Last Night’s TV: Lives that were stranger than fiction My Edinburgh: Scott Mills, Radio 1 DJ Edinburgh festival’s high flyers Free podcast: Kerry Ellis interview

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Britons in New York

As a four-year-old, I was given my first swimming lesson by my great-uncle. He threw me into a pool. It was literally sink or swim.

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Swimming: Take the plunge with tuition

“Actually, the first idea I had was something called 101 Uses For Your Murdered Sister,” reflects Rebecca Peyton. “I sat on the bus and wrote down all the things that I’d had the chance to do because of the fact that Kate had been murdered.” Related Stories Swimming: Take the plunge with tuition Fringe notes: 17/08/2010 Last Night’s TV: Lives that were stranger than fiction My Edinburgh: Scott Mills, Radio 1 DJ Edinburgh festival’s high flyers

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‘My grief made me dance, drink and cry’

The Book Festival has a tempting new late-night programme, Unbound, this year. Related Stories Swimming: Take the plunge with tuition ‘My grief made me dance, drink and cry’ Last Night’s TV: Lives that were stranger than fiction My Edinburgh: Scott Mills, Radio 1 DJ Edinburgh festival’s high flyers

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Fringe notes: 17/08/2010

It took a couple of days to work out what was different. Strolling through Edinburgh’s Bristo Square, I found myself lingering by the hoardings so that I could look at the posters properly. Running up the Pleasance, I actually stopped and asked the street teams to hand over their flyers.

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Edinburgh festival’s high flyers

Dutch chipmaker NXP Semiconductors NV, which had a difficult IPO debut in the United States this month, swung to a second quarter operating profit compared with a loss last year.

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NXP swings to Q2 operating profit

Orders and sales at New York manufacturers decreased in August for the first time in more than a year and US homebuilders turned more pessimistic, indicating the economic slowdown is becoming broad-based.

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US factory orders falter, housing mood sours

Blue Eyeshadow Related Stories Fashion Audit: 16/08/2010 The ten best weekend bags Apple: A love affair turned sour Digital Digest: 16/08/2010 Great strides: Trousers back in the style spotlight

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Face the future: New hair and make-up trends

When it comes to easy-to-wear fashion, do you want the good news or the good news? Related Stories Fashion Audit: 16/08/2010 The ten best weekend bags Face the future: New hair and make-up trends Apple: A love affair turned sour Digital Digest: 16/08/2010

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Great strides: Trousers back in the style spotlight

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Fashion Audit: 16/08/2010

Back in 1946, the Warner Bros producer Jerry Wald bought the rights to a racy novel, ‘Rebel Without a Cause’; a script was commissioned (one of the writers assigned was Theodore Geisel – better known as Dr Seuss). Related Stories Don Letts: ‘It’s never too late to be a punk’ Cultural Life: David Baddiel, writer Silver spoon successes: The intellectual, affluent and well-connected new generation of Young British Artists The Barometer: Villagers; Caro Emerald; Pete Molinari; No Age; Disclosure; Smith Westerns; Andre 3000; Freddie Gibbs Arifa Akbar: We can learn from these modern Scheherazades

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Story of the Scene: Rebel Without a Cause, Nicholas Ray

A hot night in Paris, and Richard Ashcroft was giving the audience what they want, almost.

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Richard Ashcroft - From urban hymns to united nations

When Oscar-nominated actress Elisabeth Shue was first approached for the lead role in Alexandre Aja’s explicit gore-fest Piranha 3D, she felt the film so outrageously absurd she simply couldn’t resist. “I met with Alex and he convinced me to do it. At the end of our meeting he told me, ‘you must go on an adventure’.

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Elisabeth Shue - ‘You can enjoy the screams and the gore and the fun’

Related Stories Don Letts: ‘It’s never too late to be a punk’ Cultural Life: David Baddiel, writer Silver spoon successes: The intellectual, affluent and well-connected new generation of Young British Artists The Barometer: Villagers; Caro Emerald; Pete Molinari; No Age; Disclosure; Smith Westerns; Andre 3000; Freddie Gibbs Arifa Akbar: We can learn from these modern Scheherazades

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My Fantasy Band: Connor Hanwick, The Drums

Sessions for one of the defining millennial anthems began in Dublin in the winter of 1999. The producer Brian Eno devised the rhythm on a sequencer and drum machine.

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Story of the Song: Beautiful Day, U2, 2000

Janelle Monae has received admiring glances from all sides for her boho-futurist sound, style and general outlook. “Tightrope”, the opening single from her acclaimed LP The ArchAndroid, has made a strong bid for the year’s best song

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Caught in the Net: The trouble with Monae

More erudite and poetic writers than me are probably able to wax lyrical about the glorious summer holidays of their youth; how the days slipped past in a sun-dappled haze while they frolicked gaily, using only their imaginations and the dressing-up box to construct endlessly entertaining role-playing games involving kings and queens, cats and dogs or fantasy worlds. Related Stories Brace yourself for competitive consumption Teaching Dad to cook The August cultural vacuum Net profits: how to make an online fortune Rhodri Marsden: Get the better of mobile rip-offs

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Rhodri Marsden: The lost art of boredom

An afternoon of cooking with my father – teaching him to cook that is, as he has very little experience in the kitchen – gets off to a worse start than expected. We’re making a bacon and egg pie, which is technically an open tart, but a bold, filling, macho start to a cooking lesson, in my opinion

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Teaching Dad to cook

So summer is upon us; the sun is mostly shining and, for many an office slave, work has wound down until September. It was with these giddy thoughts in mind that I consulted a What’s On guide to my local area

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The August cultural vacuum

Remember the dotcom boom? When all canny investors needed to do was add a “.com” to the name of their company to watch stock soar? And to think that all of this took place in a world where dial-up still dominated.

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Net profits: how to make an online fortune

The second most talked about feature of the iPhone 4, aside from its much-documented but rarely-observed ability to drop calls when you grip it like a badly-behaved scrubbing brush, is FaceTime. Video calls from one side of the globe (or the room) to the other, via Wi-Fi, for free. Suddenly, the telecoms provider you used to pay for those late-night chats to Auckland or Auchtermuchty is surplus to requirements – and not only that, you can watch someone scratch their nose or bite their lip without forking out for the privilege

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Rhodri Marsden: Get the better of mobile rip-offs

A new photography exhibition captures stars from the golden age of cinema as they enjoy stepping out in London. From Elizabeth Taylor fending off pigeons in Trafalgar Square to Audrey Hepburn taking her dog for a run in Richmond Park. Related Stories Delia (formerly David): ‘I was trapped in the wrong body’ The beige revolution Radon gas: The silent killer in the countryside

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Love from London: A City of Stars

Driving across the border from Somerset into Devon you pass a sign by the side of the road. “Warning: You are now entering a radioactive area,” it says.

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Radon gas: The silent killer in the countryside

As a self-respecting citizen of the digital world, you doubtless pay plenty of attention to security. Related Stories Finer details: The season’s key designer accessories A family affair: How to make a British ‘Curb Your Enthusiasm’ High-street heroes: The best affordable buys for autumn Buddy Van Horn: My life as Clint Eastwood’s stuntman The Digital Digest: 09/08/2010

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Hackers turned gatekeepers: Digital vigilantes with a moral code

Simon Amstell is a terrible worrier.

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A family affair: How to make a British ‘Curb Your Enthusiasm’

Bid a fervent farewell to the novelty retro garb of last year’s Eighties revival this autumn, and likewise to the fiercely sculpted statement pieces that the likes of Lady Gaga convinced us were a good idea.

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High-street heroes: The best affordable buys for autumn

Music Wsj.com Despite already topping the charts in numerous countries, Eminem has only just released his video for “Love The Way You Lie”. Starring Megan Fox and Dominic Monaghan as a troubled couple in an abusive relationship, it’s a suitably over-the-top affair. Watch it here: Ind.pn/93GvrV Related Stories Finer details: The season’s key designer accessories Hackers turned gatekeepers: Digital vigilantes with a moral code A family affair: How to make a British ‘Curb Your Enthusiasm’ High-street heroes: The best affordable buys for autumn Buddy Van Horn: My life as Clint Eastwood’s stuntman

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Chosen by Carola Long Related Stories Scots guard: James Robertson has dedicated himself to preserving the native culture and language north of the border Forgotten authors No 56: Kyril Bonfiglioli Are adults finally getting the cartoon capers they deserve? ‘Dexter’ Competition Fashion Audit: 09/08/2010

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The ten best make-up palettes

Click on the image (right) to see this week’s fashion picks. Related Stories Scots guard: James Robertson has dedicated himself to preserving the native culture and language north of the border Forgotten authors No 56: Kyril Bonfiglioli Are adults finally getting the cartoon capers they deserve?

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Fashion Audit: 09/08/2010

Series three of this acclaimed serial killer drama, starring Michael C Hall, is available on DVD from 16 August. We have five copies to give away.

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‘Dexter’ Competition

To any parent who has ever pacified their child with an umpteenth repeat viewing of Toy Story or Shrek, it will probably come as no surprise that animation is big business. We’re not just talking cinema tickets here. There are the DVDs, the tie-in toys and the branded merchandise, from pyjamas to wallpaper

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Are adults finally getting the cartoon capers they deserve?

Imagine a politically incorrect combination of Bertie Wooster, Falstaff and Raffles, and you get an idea of Kyril Bonfiglioli’s fictional hero. Related Stories Frock around the clock: No item is more timely than the 1950s dress On the agenda: Paul Smith; Channel 4; Festival in the Sky; Huggies Club; Emerging Artists Award Exhibition Softly, softly: Skye Gyngell’s mouthwatering alternative accompaniments for mozzarella Scots guard: James Robertson has dedicated himself to preserving the native culture and language north of the border Are adults finally getting the cartoon capers they deserve?

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Forgotten authors No 56: Kyril Bonfiglioli

There isn’t a guest at any party in the land who can resist a dip.

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Snack attack: Mark Hix whips up delicious dips

It is exactly 100 years since Elgar wrote a mysterious Spanish inscription at the head of his Violin Concerto in B minor. “Aqui esta encerrada el alma de…..” “Herein is enshrined the soul of…..” Whose soul does it enshrine? And why

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Elgar’s other, dotty, enigma

The heaving dancefloor sways to the DJ’s metronomic patterns as people filter off to chat at the bar. As a thundering bass line kicks in, whoops and squeals of approval erupt, and a sea of hands rises in salutation

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Future clubbing: Twenty-first century party people

I thought, okay, when we go on stage, it’s gonna be cool. It will be dark. I’ll only see the first few rows.

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Last year’s collaboration with Scarlett Johansson was probably more aesthetically pleasing, but music fans will likely be more excited by Pete Yorn’s latest hook-up with Frank Black, aka Black Francis. Related Stories One Minute With: Ruth Rendell, novelist Cultural Life: Miranda Raison, actress Boyd Tonkin: Pirate treasure on the page School’s out: The summer’s cultural treats for children No false modesty about Richard Strauss’s ‘Ein Heldenleben’

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Caught in the net: A pleasure to treasure

The industry in Los Angeles and its Californian environs found itself gobsmacked by a recent report that trumpeted the fact that there are 36,100 fewer jobs now in California because the state hasn’t sufficiently wooed the entertainment industry. Related Stories One Minute With: Ruth Rendell, novelist Cultural Life: Miranda Raison, actress Boyd Tonkin: Pirate treasure on the page School’s out: The summer’s cultural treats for children No false modesty about Richard Strauss’s ‘Ein Heldenleben’

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