ROMANIA'S exiled King (75), tears streaming own his face, arrived in his homeland yesterday for a five-day visit, just a week after the new government restored his citizenship.
He waved to about 20,000 people shouting "King Michael" and "King and Country" in University Square in Bucharest, where dozens of demonstrators died in the December 1989 upheaval that toppled dictator Nicolae Ceausescu.
Madonna is exploring the Kabala in hopes of finding her destiny in Jewish mysticism.
She attends two classes a week in the Kabala, the mystic branch of Judaism, under the tutelage of Eytan Yardeni, a young Israeli rabbi living in Los Angeles, the daily Yediot Aharonot said.
After the birth of her first child, Lourdes, Madonna announced she would raise her daughter in the same Catholic tradition she grew up in - but also expose her to the basics of other religions.
China's best-known actress Gong Li has said she intends to forward a motion calling on the government to relax its strict censorship on films and the arts at the current session of the Chinese People's Consultative Conference.
Gong, star of Raise The Red Lantern and Farewell My Concubine is a member of the conference, even though some of her films have been frowned upon by propaganda officials.
In March last year, Ugandan President Yoweri Museveni bet a journalist $1,000 that rebel leader Joseph Kony would be killed or captured in about seven months. A year later Kony is still alive and Museveni has paid out.
Kony heads the Lord's Resistance Army, which is fighting replace Nuseveni's government with one based on the Biblical 10 Commandments.
