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Armed with a pack of removable vinyl stickers, the French painter and sculptor prowls city streets at night looking for road signs to modify. Some local governments love him and collaborated with him for International Womens Day signs. But his girlfriend has been in an Osaka prison for four months

Wed 26 Sep 2007 17.22BST First published on Wed 26 Sep 2007 17.22BST Photograph: Clive Rose/Getty Photograph: STR/AFP Photograph: Hiroko Masuike/Getty Photograph: Claude Paris/AP Photograph: Larry Steagall/AP

Patient in her 20s in a serious but stable condition after being airlifted to Toowoomba hospital A Queensland woman has been bitten in her bed by the worlds second most venomous snake, the states ambulance service says.

The tiny Greek island that so enchanted Leonard Cohen in the 1960s still captivates today. Yiannis Baboulias tours some of the haunts that inspired the great musician The Guardians product and service reviews are independent and are in no way influenced by any advertiser or commercial initiative. We will earn a commission from the retailer

Kelsey Grammer had star billing in the TV series Frasier, which took a character from another hit American sitcom, Cheers, the pretentious psychiatrist Frasier Crane, home to Seattle. There the actor John Mahoney, as Frasiers cantankerous but charming father, Martin Crane, injected a crucial contrasting dimension into a programme lauded for its witty dialogue.