Interest rates have been on hold at 0.5% since March last year. Photograph: Toby Melville/Reuters The Bank of England left interest rates unchanged today for the 16th consecutive month, as Britain’s recovery from recession remains fragile amid the biggest public spending squeeze since... 

“Glee,” the spunky TV musical comedy about high school misfits and the teachers who shepherd them, was a top Emmy nominee Thursday with 19 bids, including for best comedy series and stars Matthew Morrison and Lea Michele. The leading nominee was the gritty, unsparing World War II drama, “The... 

(Photo: Pamela Springsteen) Sheriff’s detectives in Los Angeles are checking extortion allegations against Mel Gibson’s ex-girlfriend. Sheriff’s spokesman Steve Whitmore says the agency is looking into whether Russian singer Oksana Grigorieva may have tried to extort the Academy... 

‘Exuberantly daft, and mischievous but affectionate’ . . . Harry Hill’s TV Burp It shouldn’t really work – and certainly not as deliriously, hilariously well as it does. Clip shows are the cheap, instant, mindless filler of TV. But Harry Hill and his team bring to... 

No regrets … Marion Cotillard and Leonardo DiCaprio in Inception. Photograph: Melissa Moseley/AP Forty-seven years after her death, Edith Piaf is soundtracking the biggest, darkest, most bombastic blockbuster of the summer. Composer Hans Zimmer has revealed that Inception’s entire...