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The war between the sexes is never-ending, but the battleground is dotted with the white flags of uneasy truces. Men and women have embraced such a truce when discussing what Dominique Strauss-Kahn is said to have committed in a Manhattan hotel suite. Not only are both men and women arguing on the same side, but so are liberals and conservatives, prudes and libertines, Francophiles and Francophobes. He has ruined whatever remained of the reputation of the French lover. DSK is no Charles Boyer inviting a mademoiselle to "come with me to zee Casbah" (though M. Boyer is more seductive in...

"It is hard for me to evaluate the real political underlying reasons and I do not even want to get into that subject, but I cannot believe that everything is as it seems and how it was initially presented," he said. "It does not sit right in my head." Mr Strauss-Kahn was arrested at JFK airport in New York on May 14 for allegedly sexually assaulting a hotel chambermaid. Mr Putin's public support for Mr Strauss-Kahn comes days after a French politician alleged that the former IMF chief had said before his arrest that he thought Mr Putin was actively...

She received her first Brit Award a quarter of a century ago, lives modestly in Gloucestershire and says Eddie 'The Eagle' Edwards is regarded as more of a star in her local village. But Eighties style icon Sade is back on top of the music world again after her new album went straight to the top of the U.S. album charts, it was confirmed last night. The singer, full name Sade Adu, saw her latest album Soldier Of Love - her first release in almost 10 years – sell more than 501,000 copies in the U.S. last week giving it...

Sade is so very private, so extremely wary of the press that her friends - all of whom are bound to silence - have nicknamed her Howie, after Howard Hughes. The most reclusive British singer of the 1980s has kept such a low profile since her Smooth Operator days - one tour in 14 years - that, when we meet at the London office of her record label to hear the songs from her new album, Soldier of Love, I am the only person in the room who has met her before. It’s 10 years since her last album release,...

Ten Gunmen Pull off $800,000 Diamond Heist in Miami The Associated Press July 15, 2004 MIAMI (AP) - Ten masked gunmen beat and robbed two Israeli salesmen of more than $800,000 in diamonds Thursday during a well-organized daytime robbery at a gas station, police said. The salesmen had finished pumping gas into their car Thursday morning when their exit was blocked by a Ford Mustang, a pickup truck and a van. Ten men climbed out of the vehicles holding weapons and wearing masks and surrounded the salesmen's car, Miami police said. Some of the robbers smashed the car's windows, dragged...

You've heard of Watergate. Now there's "Rumorgate," a cut-rate version of the original "who done it." In this melodrama, Baltimore Mayor Martin O'Malley plays the role of innocent victim of a whispering campaign. The alleged perpetrator: The Evil Ehrlich Empire. Gov. Bob Ehrlich says he's innocent. He promptly fired the lout who sent e-mail messages to a right-wing Republican Web site questioning O'Malley's fidelity. This numskull worked for Ehrlich previously and held a good-paying state job. Critics shouted, "conspiracy!" Further evidence came when it was revealed the rumor-monger called himself "the Prince of Darkness" and loved wallowing in the slimy...