en-uk Tue, 30 Oct 2007 15:37:29 GMT Copyright 2007 Times Newspapers Ltd. custserv@timesonline.co.uk http://www.timesonline.co.uk Mon, 23 Nov 2009 04:12:27 GMT Newspapers 144 21 http://www.timesonline.co.uk http://images.thetimes.co.uk/TGD/picture/0,,116979,00.gif Graham Stewart Sat, 21 Nov 2009 17:42:43 GMT 2009-11-20T05:44:39Z It was expected to take hours or even days of tough negotiating and power politics, but in the end the European Union’s 27 leaders conducted their horsetrading at a canter. They chose Europe’s first president over dinner. Graham Stewart Sat, 14 Nov 2009 18:27:02 GMT 2009-11-20T05:37:55Z In sport, the maxim “separate but equal” generally defines male and female participation. Yet, should the separation of the sexes be maintained in sports where there is no intrinsic male advantage? Having won the British Darts Organisation’s women’s title, Anastasia Dobromyslova has become the lone woman on the Professional Darts Corporation (PDC) circuit. Today, her mettle will be tested as she takes on the PDC world champion, Phil “The Power” Taylor. Graham Stewart Fri, 06 Nov 2009 17:46:38 GMT 2009-11-06T05:46:38Z Not everyone implicated in the 2004 coup attempt in Equatorial Guinea will be delighted to know that Simon Mann might not keep mum. Having been released from his West African jail, the British mercenary seems ready to tell everything he knows to Scotland Yard. Might it not be better to let sleeping dogs of war lie? Graham Stewart Sat, 31 Oct 2009 18:48:21 GMT 2009-10-30T07:33:59Z When I was growing up in Edinburgh in the 1970s, Hallowe’en involved adults organising fun activities for excitable children. But look around any British towncentre tonight and you will see a bizarre transformation. Pubs are festooned in ghoulish decorations, respectable restaurants have witches’ broth on the menu and nightclubs are even more than usually playing host to the living dead.