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Neil Clough in the Boardroom after being fired

The Apprentice, BBC One: TV review

The show will see an all-girl final, between Luisa and Leah

Paula Deen appears on NBC News' The Today Show

'Queen of Southern cooking' Paula Deen gives tearful television interview following N-word admittance

American celebrity cook Paula Deen has given a tearful interview with Matt Lauer on The Today Show after being dropped from endorsement deals with the Food Network and Smithfield Foods.

Bernie Sahlins co-founded Chicago's Second City theatre

Bernie Sahlins: Founder of the Second City theatre group

Bernie Sahlins, who died on 16 June at the age of 90, co-founded Chicago's Second City theatre and nurtured the early careers of many of Saturday Night Live's biggest stars.

The Apprentice winner Tom Pellereau and his 12-day old daughter demonstrate the Nipper Clipper

The Apprentice 2012 winner Tom Pellereau turns talons to safe nail-clippers for babies

Apprentice boffin Tom Pellereau is hoping his latest invention is up to scratch as he unveiled a safe nail-clipper for babies.

Top sports agent with links to Premier League star Ashley Cole and rapper Jay Z was cleared of murder

A top sports agent with links to Premier League star Ashley Cole and rapper Jay Z was cleared at the Old Bailey today of murdering an 18-year-old man in a “revenge” attack over a stolen BlackBerry phone.

High-profile prostitution scandal hits New England town

A high-profile prostitution scandal featuring sex videos, adultery and exhibitionism in a small New England town drew to a close today when a Zumba fitness instructor was sentenced to 10 months in jail after telling the judge she was happy to have escaped her former life of crime.

Police search for missing British businessman Garin Dart in Tokyo

Originally from London, he disappeared on 22 May on the way to a meeting

QPR chairman Tony Fernandes says he's committed to the club 'like a marriage'

The Hoops have been relegated despite huge investment

Gwyneth Paltrow at Iron Man 3 premiere

Iron Man 3: Gwyneth Paltrow claims 'Most Beautiful' title 'obviously not true' at premiere

Gwyneth Paltrow says she's thrilled to be picked by People magazine as World's Most Beautiful Woman for 2013 but it's "obviously not true."

Jane Henson donates some of Jim Henson's early puppets, including the original Kermit, to the Smithsonian Institution

Muppets co-creator Jane Henson dies aged 78

Jane Henson, the former wife of Muppets creator Jim Henson, has died at the age of 78 after a long battle with cancer.

Vitalie Proca: The suspect served 12 years for murdering two people in his native Moldova

Police ask Moscow for DNA samples of Vitalie Proca, prime suspect in the gangland hit against Russian banker German Gorbuntsov

Moldovan gun-for-hire linked to shooting of businessman who fled to London

Russian tycoon could be freed after payment deal

A Russian man detained in Cambodia for allegedly threatening and assaulting local sailors could be released after his lawyers agreed to pay compensation to the victims of the attack.

Barratt in 1996 with one of the company helicopters that famously featured in television commercials

Sir Lawrie Barratt: Building mogul who brought affordable homes to millions of Britons

Sir Lawrie Barratt was a businessman who made home-owning affordable for millions of Britons. The company he founded, Barratt Developments, now employs more than 4,000 people and has 25 divisions across Britain.

The future of the Olympic Stadium is still undecided

The fans' view: Fans split over move but it will mean end of the 'homely' West Ham we love

More income and better players or empty seats and loss of 'home'?

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Funny business: Meet the women running comedy

Think comedy’s a man's world? You must be stuck in the 1980s, says Holly Williams
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Wilko Johnson: 'You have to live for the minute you're in'

The Dr Feelgood guitarist talks frankly about his terminal illness
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Entrepreneurs are giving vintage ice-cream vans a new lease of life
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DJ Taylor: Who stole the people's own culture?

True popular art drives up from the streets, but the commercial world wastes no time in cashing in
Guest List: The IoS Literary Editor suggests some books for your summer holiday

Guest List: IoS Literary Editor suggests some books for your summer holiday

Before you stuff your luggage with this year's Man Booker longlist titles, the case for some varied poolside reading alternatives
What if Edward Snowden had stayed to fight his corner?

Rupert Cornwell: What if Edward Snowden had stayed to fight his corner?

The CIA whistleblower struck a blow for us all, but his 1970s predecessor showed how to win
'A man walks into a bar': Comedian Seann Walsh on the dangers of mixing alcohol and stand-up

Comedian Seann Walsh on alcohol and stand-up

Comedy and booze go together, says Walsh. The trouble is stopping at just the one. So when do the hangovers stop being funny?
From Edinburgh to Hollywood (via the Home Counties): 10 comedic talents blowing up big

Edinburgh to Hollywood: 10 comedic talents blowing up big

Hugh Montgomery profiles the faces to watch, from the sitcom star to the surrealist
'Hello. I have cancer': When comedian Tig Notaro discovered she had a tumour she decided the show must go on

Comedian Tig Notaro: 'Hello. I have cancer'

When Notaro discovered she had a tumour she decided the show must go on
They think it's all ova: Bill Granger's Asia-influenced egg recipes

Bill Granger's Asia-influenced egg recipes

Our chef made his name cooking eggs, but he’s never stopped looking for new ways to serve them
The world wakes up to golf's female big hitters

The world wakes up to golf's female big hitters

With its own Tiger Woods - South Korea's Inbee Park - the women's game has a growing audience
10 athletes ready to take the world by storm in Moscow next week

10 athletes ready to take the world by storm in Moscow next week

Here are the potential stars of the World Championships which begin on Saturday
The Last Word: Luis Suarez and Gareth Bale's art of manipulation

The Last Word: Luis Suarez and Gareth Bale's art of manipulation

Briefings are off the record leading to transfer speculation which is merely a means to an end