$10 billion gambled. 16 million gamblers. And $2.5 billion skimmed by conmen and gangsters from only 31 casinos. Nevada? In fact this is Macau, the world's newest and richest gambling hub - and with Triads and police battling to control the acres of green baize, soon to be the backdrop for China's latest state-sponsored executions.
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Come off it - money might be tight, but you can hardly cancel Christmas...especially when there are kids and dads involved... and there are goodies like these up for grabs.
The festive party season is about to kick off again so you'll be needing a new dinner suit. This year, look for one with a twist.
Chaucer lessons with the Chemical Brothers, a kidnapping by Courtney Love...welcome to the bizarre life of Lauren Laverne.
The big sell of the Touchsmart TX2 is HP’s Mediasmart software, which creates big, touchable icons to navigate photos, music and video.
Come off it - money might be tight, but you can hardly cancel Christmas...
Come off it - money might be tight, but you can hardly cancel Christmas...
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The big sell of the Touchsmart TX2 is HP’s Mediasmart software, which creates big, touchable icons to navigate photos, music and video. ...read
Bang & Olufsen's 10.4in BeoSound 5 is built to hang on walls or sit proudly on top of its own unit – and its £3,500 price tag is calculated to make you feel like you’ve been punched in the stomach.
The second expansion for the four-year-old game, Lich King isn’t intended to woo new fans – its makers don’t need to. WoW hit the 11-million-subscribers figure last week without any new content.
Video games not realistic enough for you? Just wait till you play in the new vest that 'shoot's' you...
Nokia's 'all you can eat' Comes With Music service is the real deal - so long as you're willing to swear allegiance to Nokia till death do you part.
One week after its first unveiling, and you can get your fingers on the BlackBerry (good for email) that's as cool as the iPhone (great for screen). ...read
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The England rugby fly half on Danny Cipriani's dress sense, cross-dressing, why Oasis are his style gurus and getting his kit off.
The Kooks' lead singer on why women's jeans on the best, splashing out £1,500 on a scarf, always wearing underpants and eventually turning into Jim Morrison.
The actor on always wearing the same suit, bad hairdos, why his wife is his biggest style critic and admiring Johnny Depp.
Who can earn $100m a job... Make films that gross $740m... Give away $100m to his film crew... And strip and fix his own motorcyles? Keanu Reeves can. ...read
Ice surfing is just like windsurfing - only faster, easier to learn and even more addictive, as Jonathan Thompson discovers on a frozen lake in Sweden...
He shoots, he swears, he orders beatings and his bodyguard carries a Russian machine gun. General Ali is the Gene Hunt of the Kabul CID - which is why the thoroughly modern British police have him in their sights.
Made in Norfolk. Charged up in San Francisco. Financed by the billionaire who got the girl from St Trinian's. Live was the first British publication to test-drive the Tesla Roadster.
A boxer who cannot leave his sole defeat unavenged. A trainer who conspired to beat him - and is now at his side with a point to prove. Live reports on two old stagers thrown together for one last fight.
Forget big names - try the new boutique fizz
Guinness maybe the only stout many people have heard of, but over the past few years a quiet revolution has been taking place, with small breweries turning out rich, dark brews...
From the side and the rear this is the best-looking car since Bugatti’s Type 57, the pinnacle of pre-war streamlining. ...read
For the first time in my life, the name ‘Skoda Superb’ doesn’t sound bitterly ironic.
Austrian motorbike legends wheel out the fearsome 137mph mutant go-kart.
The Scirocco is back, as Volkswagen’s new two-door, front-wheel drive sports coupé, and I can’t tell you how excited I was when this thing arrived in my driveway.
As if Nikko's half-scale remote-control model of Star Wars' R2-D2 wasn't enough in itself, it's also a fully functional DLP projector that can beam an image up to 80 inches wide onto the wall.
It’s not often you can say that a gadget will genuinely change history, but when directors including Peter Jackson and Steven Soderbergh rave about a video camera you know it’s something special.
Looks like a guitar, sounds like a synthesizer... Meet the first guitar from legendary synth makers Moog since the Seventies. The build is classic and it's got more than a few tricks up it's sleeve.
Proper cider is not just a summer drink but equally good drunk by a roaring fire (or even three-bar grill) in winter.
A host of machines are able to blitz any fruit into juice - but which is best?
It's the original molecular gastronomy and the best (just remembered your olives will be reformed into Algin spheres).
Our food guru TOM PARKER BOWLES gives his tips for the meals of a lifetime. How many of the 40 dishes have you got your chops around?
My Spanish isn’t up to much, so I just point at various piles of sizzling beef and pork, emboldened by the tequila coursing through my veins... Tom Parker Bowles gives agave a shot
Those stale spices and congealed oils won't save in a cooking emergency, but our food doctor can rescue the day.
British rapper Dizzee Rascal reveals the influence Tupac had on him growing up, how Nirvana opened up his musical tastes and his karaoke trips with the Arctic Monkeys.
'The first record I ever bought was Life On Mars by David Bowie - well, I didn’t buy it, I robbed it from a superstore. It was the size of a football pitch but they manned it like a corner shop. When I was 11, Bowie was the coolest thing on the planet.
Natalie Imbruglia reveals how her single Torn changed her life forever - and why she wants fellow Australian Nick Cave played at her funeral.
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