With the runup to London's Games now being counted in hours, the venue's final test events are being staged. And, minus a few niggles, it's looking good for the home straight The Olympic committee has found numerous ways of counting down to the greatest show on Earth. Saturday night marked 2,012 hours to go. (Or 1,982 according to the back of my envelope). The starter's pistols have been primed ...

GET out that white suit, unbutton the shirt exposing the hairy chest and chunky gold chain, position your body with arm raised and one leg splayed out ready to dance, and put Saturday Night Fever on the old LP turntable.

Chris Knight: Never let it be said that Sacha Baron Cohen fails to throw himself into his work

‘Imagine if America was a dictatorship,” General Admiral Haffaz Aladeen invites a crowd of wary New Yorkers. He is on a state visit from the North African country he rules with an iron fist — and with a fleet of gold-plated Hummers — and he could not be more sincere. “You could let 1 percent of the people have all the nation’s wealth. You could help your rich friends get richer by cutting their ...

CANTERBURY coach Des Hasler said he would visit NRL referees' bosses Bill Harrigan and Stuart Raper next week after being caned 11-2 in the penalties by Jared Maxwell and Brett Suttor in last night's shock loss to the Gold Coast.

JAN MOIR: She is Hillary Clinton and she says she has had enough. She has had enough of the old powder puff, the painstaking painting, the blend-blend-blending, the cleanse, tone and moisturising.

Lady Gaga wears Versace on stage and while travelling for her Born This Way Ball Tour.Photo: Getty Images/Courtesy of Versace's Facebook If it was even up for discussion, let us now make it unimpeachably clear that Lady Gaga's love affair with Versace is no fleeting fling. From that gold, leather, and netted custom Grammy outfit [...]

A 'devil's worm', a sneezing monkey and an orchid that only blooms at night have been named in the latest top 10 list of new species.

Michael Phelps’ swan song in Charlotte ended with another second-place finish Saturday night.

This morning's press briefing at the Waldorf for Sacha Baron Cohen's "The Dictator" was short but incredibly funny. Thanks to Jeffrey Peter Bradford, who covered it for us due to a family commitment. Jeffrey even took pictures--some are attached. Cohen was hilarious. He poked fun at everyone from Kim Kardashian to Britney Spears, claimed to have had sex with most of our celebrities. No one can ...