Portsmouth manager Paul Hart is set to boost his threadbare squad by completing the loan signing of Belgium international Anthony Vanden Borre.

It's got glitz, it's got glamour, and it's got some of the best seafood you'll taste in the whole of Italy. Sarah Barrell reveals how to get the best out of a holiday in Liguria

The lead character in Alexi Kaye Campbell's new play, Kristin, is a radical art historian with a startling resemblance to Elizabeth Frink. She's played by Paola Dionisotti with a throwaway bitchy style and a voice pitched somewhere between Maggie Smith and Sheila Hancock.

Lazio striker Goran Pandev has told club president Claudio Lotito that he definitely wants to move on this summer.

There's an awful lot of bereavement in cinema this week. In Michael Winterbottom's latest, Colin Firth plays a US-based academic who loses his wife in a car accident and takes his two daughters to Genoa, where he hopes to heal their grieving spirits.

Pesto, piazzas and palaces are among the highlights of Italy's principal port. And spring is the best time to enjoy them in splendid isolation, says Harriet O'Brien

A new film is about to put this Italian port in the spotlight. Sarah Barrell offers a guide to the essential sights for new, and returning, visitors

Manuel "Sureshot" Marulanda, the founder and top commander of Colombia's main left-wing insurgency, has died of a heart attack after more than four decades fighting a fierce guerrilla war, his rebel group confirmed last night.

Though Renzo Piano is `perhaps the world's greatest architect', there are no buildings by him in Britain - yet. But if a public inquiry this month approves his London Bridge Tower, this visionary's `shard of glass' will give us Europe's tallest building. Simon O'Hagan met him

A work can recover from a duff opening, but a duff ending echoes in the mind like a cracked bell