20003 Emma Watson's Style Evolution

2003  Emma Watson's Style Evolution

2003
Emma’s acting proved a hit at the 2003 Children’s BAFTAs, but her eastern-inspired dress and brown suede boots/coat combo…not so much.

2002-Emma Watson's Style Evolution

Emma Watson's Style Evolution

2002
Hitting London’s Leicester Square for the world premiere of the second Harry Potter instalment, The Chamber Of Secrets, Emmasported this pretty lilac gown with cut-away hem and elegant purple sandals. A bejewelled clutch would have made the outfit so much more red carpet savvy, mind.

2002
Hitting Hollywood in a boho-esque dress teamed with a brown leather jacket and boots. Not her finest fashion moment but fairly directional for a 12-year-old.



2002
Still in that difficult pre-teen phase, Emma is yet to find her fashion feet in this floral-motif suit, blindingly-gold heels and with uninspired locks.

2001 Emma Watson's Style Evolution

 

Emma Watson's Style Evolution

2001
Taking her first step onto the red carpet at the Harry Potter And The Philosopher's Stone premiere in London, 11-year-oldEmma Watson’s fashion choices - quirky gown and feather boa – are already gaining momentum, though her style would require a little honing in her teen years to earn her red carpet credentials.

Cute, no doubt, but Emma’s golden, embellished ensemble and stage-school stance make her look like she’s auditioning for Aladdin. More pantomime than Hollywood heavy-hitter. But she is only 11, and so we applaud her confidence (not to mention fashion-courage).

Wigan manager Roberto Martinez praises 'mature' side after ensuring Premier League survival at Ewood Park

Roberto Martinez, the Wigan manager, was ready to lead the celebrations after his side completed their remarkable escape from relegation on Monday night.

Antolin Alcaraz scored the only goal as Wigan snatched a late 1-0 win atBlackburn to secure an eighth successive season of Premier League football.

The victory took them to 40 points and safety with a game to spare - an incredible turnaround from the situation two months ago when they languished bottom with half of that tally.

Six wins have come in the last eight games with Liverpool, Manchester United, Arsenal and Newcastle among the sides beaten.

Martinez said: "It was incredible - it is an incredible achievement. I thought mentally we coped really well.

"We weren't our normal fluent selves - Blackburn made it difficult for us - but to come here and hold our nerve, and not panic, shows a real mature side of the squad.

High praise: Roberto Martinez hailed his Wigan side following Premier League survival Photo: GETTY IMAGES

Anti-bailout party leads Greek coalition talks

Anti-bailout party leads Greek coalition talks

ATHENS, Greece (AP) — The head of a left-wing party opposed to the terms of Greece's bailout agreements was meeting with the country's president to receive the mandate to seek coalition partners and try to form a government after a general election produced a stalemate in parliament.

Alexis Tsipras, head of the Radical Left Coalition, or Syriza, was receiving the mandate Tuesday, a day after conservative party leader Antonis Samaras failed to reach agreement to form a government.

Tsipras' party came a surprise second in Sunday's elections. Voters punished both main parties — Samaras' New Democracy and the socialist PASOK — for their handling of the financial crisis.

No party won enough votes to form a government, leaving a coalition or new elections as the only options.

THIS IS A BREAKING NEWS UPDATE. Check back soon for further information. AP's earlier story is below.

ATHENS, Greece (AP) — A left-wing party opposed to the terms of Greece's bailout agreements will on Tuesday try to form a government after a general election produced a stalemate in parliament.

The Radical Left Coalition, led by Alexis Tsipras, is to formally receive a mandate to form a government, and get three days to try and hammer out a power-sharing deal.

The party came a surprise second place in Sunday's election, after campaigning hard on a pledge to scrap bailout agreements that have kept the country afloat but also brought in harsh austerity measures. Greece is in its fifth year of recession and unemployment has spiked to over 20 percent.

Election winner, the conservative New Democracy, had first stab at forming a government on Monday but failed to find enough support from other parties.

Failure to reach a deal this week would trigger another general election in June, raising fears that Greece's painful deficit-cutting program — along with Europe's troubled efforts to resolve its debt crisis — could be thrown off track.

Shares were hammered by nearly 7 percent on the Athens Stock Exchange Monday, and were down a further 1.3 percent by midday trading Tuesday.

The government, however, managed to raise €1.3 billion ($1.69 billion) in a debt auction Tuesday with short-term borrowing costs continuing to creep up. It sold six-month treasury bills at an interest rate of 4.69 percent, compared with a 4.55 percent rate at an auction last month

Iraq's Tariq al-Hashemi faces Interpol arrest notice

International police organisation Interpol has issued a worldwide Red Notice alert for the arrest of Iraq's Vice-President Tariq al-Hashemi.

He is accused of running Sunni death squads in post-invasion Iraq to target Shia officials - which he denies.

He fled to Kurdish-run northern Iraq when the allegations emerged in 2011, later travelling to Qatar and Turkey.

A Red Notice is a request for local police to detain a wanted person with a view to their extradition.

Many of Interpol's members consider it a valid arrest request, but a Red Notice is non-binding and is not a formal international arrest warrant.

Interpol Secretary-General Ronald Noble said the move would "significantly restrict his [Hashemi's] ability to travel and cross international borders".

'Politically motivated'

Mr Hashemi is currently believed to be staying in Istanbul, having also passed through Qatar and Saudi Arabia after leaving northern Iraq.

The most senior Sunni politician in Iraq, he is currently being tried in absentia at a Baghdad court.

Mr Hashemi is accused of running a death squad with his bodyguards which is alleged to have carried out a campaign of political assassinations and bombings at the height of Iraq's insurgency.

David Cameron and Nick Clegg: Side-by-side but facing away?

The sun will not be shining as it was two years ago. The smiles will not be on faces. There will be an earnest rededication of the central mission of the coalition - but with the emphasis this time less on dealing with the deficit than on getting the economy moving again.

That tells its own story.

Both David Cameron and Nick Clegg know that for all the talk of House of Lords reform or gay marriage, the reality of their problem is that the economy is not shifting and they've got to get it to move.

They'll say the answer to that is not to change their deficit reduction strategy but to redouble their efforts on things like banking reform, getting credit moving and getting infrastructure built.

But there's a disjunction between what goes on in parliament day to day and what the coalition wants to tell the electorate they're doing to get the economy moving.

The great difficulty for this government is that its parliamentary agenda for the next year, as presented in the Queen's Speech tomorrow, may look completely divorced from what they say are its priorities and that its supporters care about.

Why? Because you end up with bills that are the result of coalition negotiations to, for example, reform the House of Lords.

It's possible to carry out that reform at the same time as getting the economy moving. But if it prompts a row between and within both coalition parties then it'll be a row that makes it on to the main news bulletins, and it may look as though your priorities are completely different from the public's.