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30th March 2009

 

Space Tourist Blasts Into Record Books

US billionaire Charles Simonyi has become the first man to travel into space twice as a tourist aboard a Russian rocket. The software developer blasted off from Khazakstan alongside US and Russian astronauts in the Soyuz rocket, which will take two days to reach the International Space Station.Simonyi told mission control in Russia "I feel great and I am looking at the earth" not long after...

 

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Roman Abramovich gives his teenage daughter a £4m 'starter home'

According to reports, Roman Abramovich has given his teenage daughter Anna a relatively modest £4million mews cottage in Belgravia. The 19-year-old is moving into the three-bedroom cottage after splitting from solicitor fiancé Nikolai Lazarev. The cottage is the former home of the family's nannies and is co-owned by Roman and his ex-wife Irina, whom he divorced in 2007. Anna, who...

UK ticketholder wins record £161 million on Euromillions

With odds of 116 million to one the lucky ticket holder, who has not been identified, will now become the 430th richest person in the country if they are not a member of a syndicate. A spokeswoman for Camelot said: "This is amazing news – we are absolutely delighted that a UK ticket holder has scooped the entire €185 million jackpot, which at the current exchange rate is a massive...