I am so depressed.MARIA DUGGAN London N10Sir: The medieval Popes are turning in their graves. If only Lord Hutton had been around when Copernicus, Galileo and Columbus challenged their establishment orthodoxy, we...

He met the young pretender briefly, and gave him some encouragement, if not a formal blessing as his annointed successor."The Kid" deserves as much, for some of his work is indeed Montanaesque. Judgement on Tom must...

The defender will move from Leicester after completing a medical.Portsmouth have signed the 22-year-old Polish striker Sebastian Olszar on a short-term contract until the end of the season. Wolves need special...

He is conscious they will now expect him to take on Schumacher and the other Championship contenders this year, although he is more circumspect."We hope to be closer to Schumacher and the Williams and McLaren drivers...

In Japan 30 of every 1,000 cases of cancer are thought to caused by X-rays.In the UK, the National Radiological Protection Board (NRPB) has monitored the doses of radiation used in X-ray examinations for more than a...

Now he is set to unleash a wonderful long-player, Waltz of a Ghetto Fly - a bang-up-to-date collection of exotic beats and electronica, suffused with the glow that characterised later Motown."Vocally, I'm in Detroit...

If you wait long enough, it's alleged, eventually everything comes back into fashion. I still access those emotions in my writing and performance, but it's very basic emotions that anyone can experience, no matter...

Early in the film Mettler's voiceover explains that "I become more and more aware of how this film is making itself... "Although I'm not particularly a raver."The film is destined to build a following among those who...

But, he argues, the degree to which America has colonised all our cultures makes it a valid reference point for anyone: we are, in a sense, all Americans And he shrugs off the anti-American tag. The central debate is...

She has won international awards for her short stories and novels, which have included The Tiger in the Tiger Pit, Borderline, The Last Magician and Oyster (all published in Britain by Virago). When Due Preparations...

"You had to acquire two complete sets of being, two sets of vocabulary, two sets of acceptable topics to speak about." Living a double life, Turner Hospital became an astute observer and fostered a life-long...

For the Cecchi family this means an end to their lavish life-style, and for Alessandra a hasty marriage to a man seeking protection from Savanorola's crusade against sexual deviants.Dunant is at her best when writing...

My suspicions began with the description of Gerard O'Neill, who had big ideas about colonising space. And escaping Earth's gravity requires a bomb.Yet to Klerkx, Nasa can do no right. Launching rockets cleanly is...