The full academy membership of about 5,800 is eligible to vote in all categories for the Oscars themselves. ABC will broadcast the Oscars live March 5 from Hollywood’s Kodak Theatre, with Jon Stewart as host. Filmmaker Robert Altman, who has been nominated five times for best director but has never...

Styling was brought in-house (even though Italian styling was the height of fashion, and Pininfarina had done so well with the 1100), with Harris Mann’s team dreaming up a low, lean, wedgy design. This trademark style soon distended as the BL parts bin was stuffed in, and the wedge became the pudding.The...

The idea is to stop people without a serious problem sliding into a dependency.The Government is keen on a strategy of “brief interventions”, whereby doctors or nurses offer half-hour counselling sessions to those they identify as potentially problematic drinkers. Alcohol Concern offers an...

Scientists have found potentially definitive evidence that cloning is far too unsafe to be used in human reproduction, should it ever be viewed as ethically acceptable in the future. Hidden genetic defects were found in otherwise healthy cloned animals in a study that could fatally undermine the arguments...

The ever-restless Labour Party is on the move again. Apparently tired of Millbank Tower, the party is on the lookout for new digs The ever-restless Labour Party is on the move again. Apparently tired of Millbank Tower, the party is on the lookout for new digs. It does not seem that long ago that they...

Be prepared for cries of foul from the constituency chairmen on behalf of party members if it is Portillo versus Duncan Smith. The system was designed by William Hague with the probability, three years ago, that he might have faced a leadership challenge. Not much thought was given, then, to the possibility...

He got an undisclosed pay-out from his school insurers which paid for a specially-adapted bungalow. Mr Ockendon has insurance cover through the Rugby Football Union, which confirmed he denies liability.. A drunken British tourist who scarred an air stewardess for life after smashing a bottle in her face...

Put in the sheet with adults leaning on her with pillows, Candace was meant to struggle out as if she were leaving the womb.A videotape of the fatal session on 18 April last year has twice been shown to the jury. The court also saw tape of a “compression therapy” session two days earlier,...

Taiwan’s leader has formally announced plans for a Latin America trip next month, a visit he hopes will include a stopover in the United States.Allowing President Chen Shui–bian a brief transit visit in the United States could infuriate China, which considers Taiwan to be a breakaway province...

Hasan Rexit does not know or care much about the details of the resolution which lays down the terms of a political solution for Kosovo. Hasan Rexit does not know or care much about the details of the resolution which lays down the terms of a political solution for Kosovo. “It is just a piece of...