Model-maker Ron Mueck's new show at London's Hauser & Wirth gallery features only four works, but they are enough to leave Adrian Hamilton overwhelmed

Obesity campaigners criticise sponsor for linking Games with unhealthy fast food

The former minister who championed civil partnerships today said she was happy for her legislation to be repealed - and replaced with plans to allow same-sex marriage.

Ahead of the the clocks going forward this weekend, Gary Cansell meets the men who ring the changes at Big Ben.

Skylanders combines a video game with collectable toys. You may not have heard of it yet, but it's changing the way children play, its creators tell Will Dean

Skylanders combines a video game with collectable toys.

This is a novel about ordinary lives that, at times, dips – or perhaps rises – into the extraordinary. It is about an averagely muddled middle-class family, the Alldens, who live in a ramshackle three-storey house in Bath: parents Emily and Don, and children Liz, Clive, Lotte and Benjamin. The book starts in the late Sixties, with Emily pregnant with Benjamin, and ends sometime in the recent past, with the children coping, more and less well, with the deterioration and death of the older generation.

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The owner of the toy developer Vivid Imaginations has hired advisers at KPMG to sell the company for up to £80m.

The owner of the toy developer Vivid Imaginations has hired advisers at KPMG to sell the company for up to £80m.

Exactly 50 years ago, Decca's Dick Rowe turned down the Fab Four, so heading an unenviable club of talent-spotters who passed up their biggest chance. But is it all an urban myth? A new book suggests so

Feel-awkward tales of two women: one recalls sex abuse by a charismatic leader; the other is an alcoholic who tries to reclaim her old high-school beau

Iran has opened up a new front in its propaganda war with the West – by cracking down on the sale of Barbie dolls. Iran's feared morality police has raided shops selling Barbie dolls, confiscating the popular toy from stores and forcing some shopkeepers to close.

Annie Deakin finds space for new Christmas toys and increases home storage for 2012.