That Mitt Romney (white, male, Mormon) might look for a complementary Vice-President is understandable. And at first glance, Condoleezza Rice – an almost unique combination of black, female and Republican, with a long record of prestigious jobs – looks almost the perfect candidate.

Whether you’re a chap about town or country gent, pack up your troubles in style - for a long weekend at least.

Singin', and dancin', in the rain ... just Gene Kelly and me

Brian May thinks Adam Lambert's 'a keeper', and the audience agrees

Keep it light while you're on the road

Damian Green must explain why half the immigration desks at Heathrow Airport were closed today despite long queues of passengers waiting to enter the country, a Labour MP said.

'I squatted in a derelict cinema in Berlin ... it was quite an adventure'

The cutting-edge equipment used by TeamGB's Olympic contenders is given a work-out by Tom Peck

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Dancers Colin Poole and Simon Ellis, who make up the company Colin, Simon & I, spend Because We Care testing each other. They shuffle into each other’s personal space, pushing through rivalries and power struggles. Poole and Ellis focus on the clashes, but don’t develop them.

'I'm likely to be travelling in India with my head in a book about Patagonia'

It's called a Moonlight Flit: the crime of fleeing without paying. Usually it's done by financially strapped, but plausible-seeming, folk exiting through the window at 3am, hoping their landlady won't hear.

A British couple who restore antiques were last night named among the four UK citizens accused of attempting to smuggle a suticase of cocaine worth £1.6m into Bali.

Cheltenham housewife arrested in Bali with nearly 5kg of cocaine in her suitcase