You have to hand it to Steve Jobs and his team: despite the boss being off work for months after a liver transplant, and the subsequent anxieties over the future of the computer corporation, Apple has defied the consumer recession with a year-on-year...

Emotions ran high at Christian Lacroix on the second day of Paris haute couture week, as cheers and tears marked what could be the designer's final high-fashion collection. Lacroix, one of France's most theatrical and best-loved designers, faces...

Burma's longest-serving political prisoner, 78-year-old journalist Win Tin, was freed today after 19 years behind bars...

"A multi-millionaire socialist, a republican Knight of the Realm, a proud Scotsman long-resident in the tax haven of the Bahamas, Sir Sean Connery is indeed a man of many surprises and contradictions,"...