Ella COX (3) burst into tears yesterday as she was crowned this year's Miss Pears.
Ella, from Bath, sat in front of a bank of photographers with her new crown at a press call in London, weeping and calling for her mother, Victoria Cossins, who was in hospital suffering from suspected food poisoning. Attempts by her father Nick (31) to stop her tears failed.
A "humiliated" Mother Teresa yesterday tried to end controversy over a film on her life by releasing letters purportedly proving that she had not authorised the project.
Claims by the Philippines' former first lady Imelda Marcos that she is the poorest member of Congress were upheld by the lower house of Congress yesterday. The house committee on ethics dismissed complaints by other congressmen against the widow of the late deposed Ferdinand Marcos who has insisted in her official declaration of assets that she is the poorest of the 216 members.
Tony Blair's wife Cherie and their children were taken on a secret tour of the EastEnders set yesterday by Ross Kemp, a Labour supporter who plays Grant Mitchell in the BBC soap opera.
Alan Rickman, the acclaimed British actor who co-starred in last year's hit movie Michael Collins, made his debut as a director yesterday when The Winter Guest was screened at the Venice film festival.
The film, starring Emma Thompson and her mother Phyllida Law, is a taut drama of relationships set against a bleak Scottish winter. Rickman, speaking at a news conference, described his film as "images of people slipping and falling".
President Fidel Castro is in "excellent health," a Foreign Ministry spokeswoman said yesterday, a day after rumours of his death circulated. She said the rumours were "lies."