ASTRONOMER and author Carl Sagan has died. He was aged 62.
Sagan won the Pulitzer prize in 1978 for his book Dragons of Eden and was author of Intelligent Life in the Universe, Mars and the Mind of Man, and Other Worlds. He was a pioneer in exobiology, which investigates the possibility of extraterrestrial life.
Madonna defied animal protesters at the British premiere of the film Evita in London and arrived in what looked like a real fur coat.
Protesters, who have already objected to fur worn by Madonna in the movie, chanted Stop the torture, fur is dead", while one demonstrator, dressed as a raccoon, waved a banner reading "Cry for me", referring satirically to a song in the movie.
Lauren Bacall (72) is delighted at landing several film roles which prove that she has not been forgotten by her peers.
She plays Jack Lemmon's wife in My Fellow Americans, Barbra Streisand's mother in The Mirror Has Two Faces, and a mystery woman in the French film Le Jour et la Nuit, to be released early next year.
A woman, who got married after a romance on the Internet, found four months into the union her mate had a serious flaw - he was a she.
So she sued.
Thorne Wesley Jameson Groves (26) told Margaret Anne Hunter "he" had AIDS and wanted to be happily married while dying - but avoided physical intimacy in order to protect Hunter. The suit asks for $575,000 in damages for fraud and misrepresentation. There was no word on who might get the computer in any settlement.
Perth beauty Sandra Watkins risks losing her Miss Universe Australia crown because contest organisers say she may not be a miss at all.
Following a call to a local newspaper by a man claiming to be her ex-husband, Watkins (25) acknowledged she had been married, but said the marriage had been annulled. She has until February to prove the annulment or lose the title to her runner-up.