London, Nov 21 : A gambler has broken records by claming the largest amount won from a British bookmaker after winning more than 2 million dollars on an online fruit machine.

The 49-year-old jackpot winner won his 2,086,585 pounds prize on the Coral MegaJackpots Cluedo game.

The game is an online slot machine, with the traditional symbols of cherries and bells replaced by characters from the Cluedo board game, such as Colonel Mustard and Miss Scarlett.

Players can stake between 2p and 5 pounds a line.

London, Nov 21 : ''Citizen Kane'', a 1941 American dramatic film and the first feature film directed by Orson Welles, has topped Cahiers du Cinema magazine''s list of ''The Best 100 Movies''.

Second on the list is 1955''s ''The Night of the Hunter'' by Charles Laughton while 1939''s ''The Rules of the Game'' by Jean Renoir came third, reports the Independent.

''Sunrise: A Song of Two Humans'' by Friedrich Wilhelm Murnau landed the fourth spot.

Rounding off the top five was 1934''s ''L''Atalante'', a 1934 French film directed by Jean Vigo and starring Jean Dasté, Dita Parlo and Michel Simon.

London, Nov 21 : The Duke of York dished out almost 130,000 pounds during 16 taxpayer-funded trips abroad last year, according to official figures.

Prince Andrew spent the whopping 130,000 pounds on hotels and other expenses while he was acting in his capacity as an ambassador for British trade abroad.

His expenses bill is to be published for the first time under Freedom of Information laws.

He has earned the nickname "airmiles Andy" and the "junket of York" for his lavish use of private planes and helicopters at public expense.

London, Nov 21 : A poll by residents of a Siberian city has named Roman Abramovich as their idea of an archetypal Englishman.

The owner of Chelsea Football Club pipped Winnie the Pooh, James Bond and Winston Churchill in the online poll to nab the first position.

Russia will be erecting its first statue of Roman Abramovich next month following the poll.

The poll was organised by the Siberian chapter of the Russian-British Cultural Association, a body set up in 2003 to foster a better understanding of each other''s countries, reports the Telegraph.

London, Nov 21 : Katie Price has defeated British Prime Minister Gordon Brown in terms of the sales of their respective books.

Katie Price’s latest book ‘Pushed to the Limit’ has outsold Gordon Brown’s, ‘Wartime Courage: Stories of Extraordinary Courage by Ordinary People in World War Two’ by
4,446 copes to 193, in two weeks.

Despite being on sale for 10 months, Price’s book has still scored over the Prime Minister’s book, which chronicles the lives of Eric Liddell, the Chariots of Fire legend, and Violette Szabo, who worked undercover for the Special Operations Executive during the second world war,

London, Nov 21 : When Angelina Jolie and Brad Pitt negotiated with People magazine for photos of their newborn twins, the couple was seeking more than the estimated 14 million pounds they received from the deal, according to reports.

The couple reportedly wanted a guarantee of ‘positive’ coverage.

According to the New York Times, Brangelina made the condition during negotiations with People and other magazines, which were competing to carry the first pictures of the latest additions to the Hollywood couple''s family.