Kya deLongchamps takes a look at the quirkier end of collecting shows on the TV — programmes like the History Channel’s Down East Dickering.

NORMALLY, when biographies cause problems for the subject, it’s because of something included in the book.

YOU’LL need to step outside Culhane’s Irish pub to realise how far you are from home.

The past week has underscored one more way in which the lives of the super -rich are diverging from the lives of everyone else: The middle class is becoming a matriarchy, while the plutocracy remains firmly patriarchal.

ON A MONDAY morning in March, 1970, Newsweek’s cover on ‘Women in Revolt’ hit the newsstands.

SATURDAY

Powerful storms have roared through middle America, with weak tornadoes touching down in isolated spots and severe thunderstorms threatening several states.

A line of violent thunderstorms roared across middle America, killing six people in two states, with several tornadoes touching down in Oklahoma and high winds pounding rural Kansas.

In the largest single strike at Mexican drug operations in the US, authorities arrested more than 300 people in a sting that demonstrates a young cartel’s vast reach north of the border.

Miley Cyrus is “stoked” with her new clothing line.

Hollywood actress Charlize Theron is rallying support for the campaign for gay marriage - she has written an open letter calling for people of all sexual preferences to join in an upcoming demonstration in California.

JENNIFER ANISTON has joked she spends weekends with Brad Pitt, Angelina Jolie and their children.

Jennifer Aniston has joked she spends weekends with Brad Pitt, Angelina Jolie and their children, it emerged today.

The massive storm that brought death and freezing chaos to middle America finally tapered off today, but another was forecast to be on the way.

Chat show host Michael Parkinson has revealed the questions his guests have told him they would rather not be asked - and admitted that he has sometimes forgotten their names.

US Senator Barack Obama has the aura of a rock star, according to George Clooney, who also had nice words for the other Democratic Party presidential candidates.

The United Nations’ second highest-ranking official yesterday accused the US government of leaving Americans in the dark about the world body’s good works, a rare direct criticism that drew an angry response yesterday from US Ambassador John Bolton.

Of all the university classes Motley Crue drummer Tommy Lee took for his reality TV show, Tommy Lee Goes to College, the subject he really connected with was botany.

Ashton Kutcher claims his friendship with Sean 'P Diddy' Combs caused so much outrage, he faced hostility from a number of the rap mogul's friends.