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Tennis: Henman raising his own temperature

On another cold night in the Gulf, Tim Henman advanced to the quarter-finals of the $1m Qatar Mobil Open with victory over Guillaume Raoux. It was in straight sets, but not straightforward, as John Roberts reports from Doha.

Arts: Why we go bananas about ... bananas

"A-aa-aaa-choooo! Excuse me." My interviewee, just off a package flight from Ecuador, is looking a touch green about the gills. "When you spend your entire life on the equator, all this refrigeration is a bit of a shock. Aaaaaa-chooo!"

Tennis: Bjorn-again oldies in the Hall of fame

Andrew Baker talks to John Lloyd about this week's Seniors tennis show

Tennis: Sampras era sealed in rare style

The brilliant Pete Sampras won his fourth ATP Tour Championship yesterday with an overwhelming victory against Yevgeny Kafelnikov.

Tennis: Successful exit for Henman

Tim Henman waved goodbye to the British National Championships yesterday by completing a hat-trick of titles in Telford.

Tennis: Henman digs in

TIM HENMAN fought back from a set and a break of serve down to reach the final of the National Championships with a 4-6 6-3 6-3 win over Danny Sapsford at Telford.

Tennis: From Telford to Hannover and back again: how Tim Henman went in search of a $100,00 prize

Tim Henman had been expecting to finish a low-key week in Telford at the National Tennis Championships until his phone rang at 11.30 on Thursday night.

Tennis: Henman given a hard time by Weal

Tim Henman's step from the world circuit back into domestic competition suffered a surprising stumble in his opening match of the Guardian Direct British National Championships at Telford yesterday.

The Monday Interview: Tim Henman: Henman's year of hard education

Tim Henman, who defeated Greg Rusedski to win the past two National Championships, defends his title at Telford this week.

Tennis: Henman checked by Goellner

Tim Henman made a limp exit from the Lyon Grand Prix last night, losing 6-3, 6-4 in barely an hour to Germany's Marc-Kevin Goellner.

Tennis: Rusedski targets Hannover

The British No 1, Greg Rusedski, beaten in five sets by Goran Ivanisevic in the CA Trophy final in Vienna on Sunday, has considerably improved his chances of gaining a place in the eight-man ATP Tour Championships in Hannover next month.

Tennis: Rusedski runs out of gas

From the standpoint of British tennis, it matters less where Greg Rusedski came from than where he is going... the United States Open singles final a week ago, the world's top 10 tomorrow. Fatigue, and the superior play of the top-seeded Carlos Moya, curtailed Rusedski's progress yesterday in the semi-finals of the Samsung Open, by which time he had already flogged himself into the history books.

Rusedski hits No 10 in rankings

The West Hants Club, an unlikely setting for tennis history, proudly took its place in the record books for a second time yesterday. Greg Rusedski was hailed as the first British man to reach the world's top 10 since computer rankings began in 1973.

Tennis: Rusedski enjoys cake and the clay

The highlight of a hero's welcome for Greg Rusedski on his return from an unforgettable fortnight at the United States Open came at the end of the first set of his opening match in the Samsung Open at the West Hants Club yesterday.
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Special report: Met police call for criminal inquiry into former diplomat's Cayman Islands rule
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She owned the 1990s... but then she disappeared. Now, Ms Ryder is back with quite the bang in her latest role, as the wife of a notorious real-life Mob hitman.
Roman Polanski shakes Cannes Film Festival

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The director's new film, 'Venus in Fur', is one of the raciest on offer
Rev Richard Coles: 'I don’t have any concerns that God is cross with me for being gay and eventually the Church won’t either'

Rev Richard Coles on the Church and homosexuality

The mellifluous, erudite and witty Coles is the nation's most pop-culture-friendly priest
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Patrick Cockburn: Civil war looms in Iraq

The governor of Kirkuk - one of the country's most violent but successful provinces - fears the worst
Written on the body: Tattooists at pains to point out their artistic credentials

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Tattooists at pains to point out their artistic credentials
Conquering Everest: 60 facts about the world's tallest mountain

Conquering Everest: 60 facts about the world's tallest mountain

The IoS marks the sixtieth anniversary of Sir Edmund Hillary and Tenzing Norgay first reaching the peak of the highest mountain on Earth
A new, and irreversible, Dust Bowl looms

Rupert Cornwell: A new, and irreversible, Dust Bowl looms

The destructive power of tornadoes will be as nothing once the Great Plains' vast underground water reserve dries up
Every creature's needless death diminshes us all

Philip Hoare: Every creature's needless death diminishes us all

A 60 per cent decline in our national species should alarm us, yet few of us act. But to mind more about animals would reflect well on society
Killing with kindness: Burma's religious battleground - and the monks at the heart of it

Killing with kindness: Burma's religious battleground

Six years ago, the world cheered the monks behind Burma’s Saffron Revolution. Now, a horrific new eruption of religious slaughter is being blamed on a 'Buddhist Bin Laden'.
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Let's take it outside: Bill Granger's Bank Holiday feast

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Stirring Champions League final shows how far English game must advance
10 big questions for the British & Irish Lions to answer

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Warren Gatland's squad fly Down Under aiming to do justice to the expectations – and hoping the Wallabies stay in the pub