What do smartphones, online dating agencies and oven-ready joints have in common? In the Round-Up's shopping basket this week: a smartphone, some mobile apps and, err, a subscription to an online ...

Talk about your weapons of mass seduction. Olga Borodina, as the Philistine uber-temptress Delilah in “Samson et Dalila,” has them all, and they’re hidden in plain sight. When we first ...

Among the oligarchic republics and monarchies of Italy in the late fifteenth and early sixteenth centuries, it was the guileful Medici, in Florence—not the irrepressibly corrupt and, yes ...

As India prepares to launch its Super 8s campaign in the ICC Twenty20 World Cup in Barbados, Rohit Sharma and Rahul Dravid couldn't have asked for a better draw for the second stage of the ...

Out of that venerable theme of the war between the sexes in which the femmes are the guileful aggressors, Don Hartman has fashioned a sparklingly witty comedy of modern manners which will set off ...

But as he continued the microphone failed again. When power returned for a second time, Putin said: “Mr Prodi is to blame, he’s in charge of who speaks and who doesn’t.” And then, in a comment that ...