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Rock stars re-form as business gurus (well, they can wield an axe...)
Friday 08 June 2012
Corporate managers are being encouraged to unleash their inner air guitar and learn leadership skills from heavy metal luminaries at a seminar titled the Monsters of Rock'n'Roll Business.
Pharmacy used by Michael Jackson may have supplied Whitney Houston with pills
Tuesday 14 February 2012
Coroner confirms singer was found by make-up artist amid reports of empty medication bottles
Grammys rearranged to honour Houston as music world mourns
Monday 13 February 2012
The organisers of the Grammy awards scrambled to recast the annual ceremony as a tribute to Whitney Houston, whose death plunged the music world into mourning on the eve of its most star-spangled night.
Grammy Awards recast as tribute to singing legend
Monday 13 February 2012
The organisers of the Grammy awards scrambled to recast the annual ceremony as a tribute to Whitney Houston, whose death plunged the music world into mourning on the eve of its most star-spangled night.
Nicklas Bendtner arrested after hotel brawl
Thursday 05 January 2012
Sunderland striker Nicklas Bendtner was arrested following an early morning brawl at a hotel, it emerged today.
The death of a free-thinker
Saturday 17 December 2011
Patrick Cockburn pays his tribute to the wit, warmth, and humanity of his friend Christopher Hitchens
FA opens doors on academy to 'inspire and stimulate'
Wednesday 09 November 2011
Governing body has big plans for England's new St George's Park training base after a string of false starts
Stephen Foley: Now Hewlett-Packard has decided it will not divest, it must decide that it will invest
Saturday 29 October 2011
US Outlook: The "data-driven evaluation" to which Hewlett-Packard has belatedly subjected the proposed spin-off of its personal computer business, probably did not need to go further than measuring the share-price decline on the day it was announced. It was 20 per cent.
Snooker: O'Sullivan apologises for 'rape' remark
Saturday 29 October 2011
Ronnie O'Sullivan has apologised for claiming he felt "raped" playing in the lower-profile Players Tour Championship (PTC) series.
James Moore: Executive pay system is clearly broken, if not bent
Friday 28 October 2011
One group seemingly immune to the impact of inflation, unemployment, economic stagnation and all the other woes afflicting this country is the men (it's usually men) who sit around the boardroom tables of Britain's biggest public companies. Income Data Services (IDS), which totted up pay, bonuses and various share awards, says FTSE 100 directors pocketed an average 49 per cent rise in the last financial year to bring their annual remuneration to an average £2.7m. Chief executives made do with a 43 per cent rise, poor lambs.
James Moore: Alliance puts a crafty boot into its pension-holders
Friday 28 October 2011
Outlook Alliance Boots has been taking flak for allegedly putting the future returns of its 20,000 pensioners at risk by offering to change the way plans are paid.
Prosecutors fly to Libya to freeze Gaddafi's Swiss assets
Sunday 23 October 2011
Swiss officials have gone into Libya to help the National Transitional Council (NTC) freeze the Gaddafi regime's assets in their tax haven.
- 1 Notes from a small island: Is Sealand an independent 'micronation' or an illegal fortress?
- 2 British business: We need to stay in the European Union - or risk losing up to £92bn a year
- 3 The moral case on tax avoidance is overwhelming - and we all know Google wants to do the right thing
- 4 Sam Wallace: The second coming of Jose Mourinho at Chelsea will be a reunion that can only end in tears
- 5 It’s official: thanks to Stephen Hawking's Israel boycott, anti-Semitism is no more
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