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Which city boasts the world's highest quality of life

VancouverYou should move to Vancouver in Canada or Zurich in Switzerland if you want to live in the top cities for overall quality of life, according to a new report by William M. Mercer. Where00:00 Mon 26th Feb 2001

Eminem: why are you so mad

by Katherine E Cunningham WHITE rap star Eminem causes controversy wherever he goes — but it hasn’t done him too much harm so far. 2001 has seen a hugely successful UK tour —00:00 Thu 15th Feb 2001

Red Lion v White Hart

by Steve Cunningham WHAT is the most popular pub name asked Arsenal. The Red Lion, came back the speedy and unanimous reply. Boring name isn'it But there's a good reason for its popularity and00:00 Thu 15th Feb 2001

Chicago: from stink to skyscrapers

by Steve Cunningham HOW did Chicago obtain its name asked albry. Here's a glance at the early history of the town that became the third-largest city in the United States. Chicago todayChicago00:00 Thu 15th Feb 2001

The mysterious Hinduja brothers

by Steve Cunningham THEY did something that neither the Tories nor his Labour enemies could dream of achieving. They unwittingly brought about the downfall of Peter Mandelson, Tony Blair's Prince00:00 Thu 08th Feb 2001

Speed hero's Bluebird found

by Steve Cunningham DIVERS have found the submerged wreck of speed hero Donald Campbell's jet-powered boat Bluebird, 34 years after he was killed. Press Association Bluebird in actionCampbell00:00 Thu 08th Feb 2001

Pearls from the paddies

by Steve Cunningham A NEW crop is growing in the rice paddies of the eastern Chinese town of Shanxiahu. Pearls. Farmers are turning their paddies into pearl ponds and becoming incredibly rich in00:00 Thu 08th Feb 2001

Threat to nature's laboratory

by Steve Cunningham THE EFFECTS of an oil spill upon the Galapagos Islands, known as the 'natural laboratory of evolution' is not yet known. But the consequences could be disastrous for the whole of00:00 Thu 01st Feb 2001

Hollywood honours hero magician

by Steve Cunningham THE unsung hero who moved Alexandria, hid the Suez Canal and created armies out of thin air will be honoured by Hollywood. The amazing story of Jasper Maskelyne is to be told00:00 Tue 30th Jan 2001

Beaverbrook: press crusader

by Steve Cunningham THE declining Express newspaper has another owner. Richard Desmond will try, like the past few proprietors, to take the paper back to its glory days. Despite his best efforts,00:00 Tue 30th Jan 2001

Last Queen of Italy dies aged 94

By Steve Cunningham MARIA Jos of Savoy, the last Queen of Italy, has died, aged 94. She was queen for 27 days and exiled for 54 years. Press Association The last Queen of Italy As wife of00:00 Mon 29th Jan 2001

It s a record naturally

By Steve Cunningham EVERYONE knows what's the world's longest river, don't they Of course you do - it's the Nile. But do you know the natural world's other record-breakers Read on ... 00:00 Mon 29th Jan 2001

Can't quite place it

By Steve Cunningham HERE, at The AnswerBank, we see a wide range of people & places questions, from the puzzling and fascinating to the frankly unbelievable. Here's a selection of the best and the00:00 Thu 25th Jan 2001

The disappearance of a hero

by Steve Cunningham RAOUL Wallenberg is one of the 20th Century's greatest heroes. He saved tens of thousands of lives in the second world war. Yet nobody knows whether he is dead or alive. 00:00 Thu 18th Jan 2001

The biggest holy crush

by Steve Cunningham ON A stretch of riverbank in India a crowd is gathering half the size of the British population. This is the largest gathering on the planet in history. Over the next six weeks,00:00 Mon 15th Jan 2001

Ollie meets Oscar, just a bit too late

By Steve Cunningham HELL-RAISING actor Oliver Reed could win the film industry's rarest accolade - a posthumous Oscar. The hard-drinking star, who died aged 61 while filming Gladiator, is likely00:00 Thu 11th Jan 2001

Town squirms at ugly description

By Steve Cunningham THE TOWN of Walsall has reacted with fury after being described as like 'Ceaucescu's Romania with fast food outlets.' The US magazine New Criterion says the Black Country spot00:00 Thu 11th Jan 2001

The most powerful man in the world

By Steve Cunningham ALAN Greenspan has pressed the panic button and cut American interest rates in an attempt to head off looming recession. Press Association Alan GreenspanBut who is the00:00 Tue 09th Jan 2001

What next for Clinton

By Stephen Cunningham PRESIDENT, diplomat or celebrity broadcaster Bill Clinton wants to be remembered as a peacemaker. But his career is by no means over - and if persistent rumours prove true, he00:00 Sun 24th Dec 2000

They went to bed in a town and awoke in a city

By Steve Cunningham BRITAIN gained hundreds of thousands of city slickers this month. City status was conferred by the government upon Wolverhampton, Inverness and Brighton and Hove. Reasons for00:00 Thu 21st Dec 2000