Emergency supplies delivered by military helicopters have turned up on the shelves of shops in affluent districts of the capital Manila – hundreds of miles from the disaster zone.

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MPs are set to get an 11% pay rise - an extra £7,600 - when a parliamentary watchdog publishes its final recommendations on salaries this week.

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Forthcoming novel from San Francisco author, centered on iconic Tales of the City character, could be made into a filmThe is poised to reprise what is perhaps the most iconic role of her career – and certainly one that had a huge impact on her outlook on life.No, not her 1987 part as Cher's mother, in some sort of sequel to the hit movie Moonstruck, which won her an Oscar. Dukakis is in talks...

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Singer reveals she was diagnosed a year ago and now feels 'relieved and a bit more relaxed about myself'Throughout her life, Scottish singing sensation Susan Boyle has carried the label "brain damaged". Now, in an exclusive interview with the Observer, the 52-year-old has revealed that she was misdiagnosed after complications at birth and has actually had Asperger's, a high-functioning...

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Angelou's poem, His Day is Done, is circulated in 15 languages as a tribute to Mandela 'on behalf of the American people'The American writer Maya Angelou has written and recited a poem in honour of Nelson Mandela, whom she met in the 1960s when she lived in Cairo.In the poem, , Angelou mourns Mandela's death, praises him as a modern-day David who slew a mighty Goliath and a Gideon, who freed the...

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Reports trumpeting basic differences between male and female brains are biological determinism at its most trivial, says the As hardy perennials go, there is little to beat that science hacks' favourite: the hard-wiring of male and female brains. For more than 30 years, I have seen a stream of tales about gender differences in brain structure under headlines that assure me that from birth men are...

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The Kinks frontman on London's changing face, eavesdropping and his fear of big fish and artichokesGeography is important to Ray Davies. We meet for lunch in Hampstead in north London, at an Italian institution of a restaurant . Davies, now 69, grew up only a couple of miles away on the other side of the heath, in Muswell Hill. He lives even closer, in a terraced house in Highgate. His...

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Like all the best characters in a Cold War thriller, Sarah Harrison – currently exiled in Berlin – is hiding in plain sight.

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Liverpool went second in the Premier League table as they recorded a second comfortable home win in a week courtesy of at least two, possibly three own goals, beating West Ham 4-1 at Anfield.

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Norwich won on their travels for just the second time this season thanks to a hard-fought 2-0 victory at West Bromwich Albion.

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