Apocalypse Now is widely considered one of the greatest movies of all time, and while it has been released on DVD a couple of times in the past, this is the first time it has been released on a truly

Mr. MacKay was responding to comments by Canadian and British military officials - including Canadian Gen. Rick Hillier - who have said international forces will be needed for up to five more years. Canada's current commitment expires in 2009.

Survivors of the 1994 Rwandan genocide marched through the streets of Kigali yesterday, calling for the world to take action to end the slaughter in Darfur. They were joined by hundreds of thousands of protesters in more than 40 countries

In the heat of the Punjab plain, an Indian zoo is waiting for its collection of lions to die. The males have all been sterilised, to prevent them breeding. Once the Chhatbir zoo had more than 70 lions; today there

The uncertainty over Mexico's political future has taken a new twist after supporters of the defeated presidential candidate elected him to lead a "parallel" government that will spend the next six years opposing the man who won the election. By

1. CHINA: LI ZIMENG, 28 Programme: News Relay, China Central Television (CCTV) Audience: 160 million Li Zimeng caused a sensation when she and Kang Hui made their debut on China's state-run broadcaster CCTV in June on the channel's half-hour evening

ordon Brown is every bit as fixated on the Press as Tony Blair. Like the Prime Minister, he cultivates proprietors, editors and political journalists, and is just as sensitive to stinging criticism. In the past couple of weeks, as his

SINGAPORE (Reuters) - Oil prices nudged higher for a second day on Monday, struggling to end their steepest slump in more than a decade amid robust winter fuel stocks and easing geopolitical and weather risks to oil supplies.

A SEQUENCE of events at News Corporation begins to raise doubts about Rupert Murdoch. Could it be, top industry analysts must be wondering, that on the long and winding road to second childhood, Mr Murdoch has stopped off at the

Kanya King, in her 30s, is the CEO of the Mobo Organisation. She worked her way up from a television researcher and a booker for Radio 2 to being the driving force behind one of Britain's most successful music awards.

To a 26-year-old just getting used to the newsroom of a national paper, meeting the legendary Marje Proops was nerve-racking. I had just been made women's editor of the Mirror and one of my tasks was to assist Marje in

Moving content from one environment to another without devaluing the end product is a conundrum at the forefront of Alan Giles's mind. Giles has had to reboot his new-media strategy in order to safeguard the future of the HMV Group,

There's nothing like a bit of collective paranoia to get the advertising industry's professional adrenalin pumping. A few years ago, the spectre of ad-savvy management consultants eating agencies' lunches spurred adland to push its services. Though the MCs never did

magine this: by 2020 we will be able to carry every word every written, every picture or video ever taken and every music track every recorded - in fact the entire world's content - on a small device in our

nside a trailer van at Alexandra Palace, London. 1 April, 2006. Matt Lucas and David Walliams are filming a pop video with the Pet Shop Boys. I am recording their every word on my iPod, while another writer, Chris Heath,

After years wandering the world I am, at last, thanks to the Press Complaints Commission (PCC), getting to know my own country. Since starting my first term as chairman in 2003, I have kept up a pretty steady programme of

Paul Gascoigne is terrified. In a Heathrow lounge, his entourage is trying, in vain, to enforce an atmosphere of joviality. But Gascoigne is pale and tense. He hates flying, and he's about to spend 12 hours in the air. In

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Did you know Charles Kennedy had a drink problem? IAN LINTON, GLASGOW These things are difficult to judge. When does someone drink quite heavily and when does it become a problem? People should be given the opportunity to try to

Dozens of exotic new fish and corals have been discovered in a spectacular Indonesian seascape which scientists have hailed as a "species factory" - possibly the richest marine environment in the world. The barely-explored Bird's Head Seascape, off the province