Sir Paul McCartney led graduation celebrations today at the "fame" school he set up in his home city - which included an honour for DJ and producer Mark Ronson.
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Member of Pussy Riot refused parole in Russia
Wednesday 24 July 2013
Plight of the band has drawn international attention
Madonna: Has the Queen of Pop Sensationalism gone too far by wearing a chainmail niqab?
Thursday 04 July 2013
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Grace Dent: Spare me your ‘Glastonbury vibes’. At our age, the only reason to camp is a humanitarian disaster
Friday 28 June 2013
Your kids would rather be on a Thomas Cook holiday, not observing you skanking
Why creating the perfect Alice is no tea party
Wednesday 19 June 2013
Michael Volpe continues his monthly dispatch on staging a world premiere
Music videos: David Bowie's 'The Next Day' is not the first time a pop star has tried to emulate Christ
Thursday 09 May 2013
The latest stage of David Bowie’s remarkable comeback is a video for his song “The Next Day”. And he has chosen to mine the rich seam of Christian imagery, following a path set by a number of modern videos.
Madonna raises $7m from sale of Fernand Léger painting to 'make girls like Malala smile' around the world
Wednesday 08 May 2013
The Queen of Pop will donate the proceeds to her Ray of Light Foundation to promote girls' education in the Middle East and South Asia
Madonna vs Malawi: A very uncharitable relationship
Thursday 11 April 2013
The President says she is a bully. Madonna says the President is a liar. So how did a mercy mission go so horribly wrong?
Madonna 'very annoyed' at having to queue at Malawian airport after VIP status stripped
Tuesday 09 April 2013
Madonna, her children and a large entourage were reportedly forced to queue to check in and go through security with ordinary passengers at a Malawi airport terminal after the pop star was apparently stripped of her VIP status in the country.
Madonna takes her adopted children to see their Malawi birthplace
Tuesday 02 April 2013
Madonna is visiting Malawi with the two children she adopted from the impoverished African country.
Madonna and Angelina Jolie told they are ripping the heart out of Africa
Thursday 07 February 2013
Mozambique-born model Tasha da Vasconcelos criticises adoptions by foreign celebrities
Shocked at the Japanese pop star who shaved her head for having a boyfriend and betraying band rules? Look around you
Tuesday 05 February 2013
Minami Minegishi's band AKB48 embody the disturbing schoolgirl fantasy: naïve and submissive, yet unattainable - and the hypocrisy isn't unique to Japanese culture
Madonna's charitable endeavours rubbished by Malawi education authorities
Thursday 17 January 2013
Madonna’s charitable endeavours were dealt another blow when Malawi’s Education Minister flatly denied the pop star’s claims that her charity had built 10 new schools in the country.
Things your publicist says not to do during an acceptance speech
Monday 14 January 2013
Following Jodie Foster's performance at the Golden Globes (to the dismay of her publicist, but to our delight), we round up a few of the 'what not to do' rules
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Is the Muslim call to prayer really such a menace?
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Channel 4 to 'provoke' viewers who associate Islam with terrorism with live call to prayer during Ramadan
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US army doctor returns arm to Vietnamese soldier fifty years after he took it as a souvenir
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Police seize possessions of rough sleepers in crackdown on homelessness
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Demand for food banks has nothing to do with benefits squeeze, says Work minister Lord Freud
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