Charlie Kray has lost the first round of his appeal against a conviction for masterminding a £39 million cocaine deal. Britain's Court of Appeal has rejected a written application from 71-year-old Kray's legal team for leave to appeal against the conviction.
Kray, the elder brother of gangster twins Ronnie and Reggie, was jailed for 12 years last June.
US State Department spokesman James Rubin is engaged to be married to CNN correspondent Christiane Amanpour.
The wedding is planned for this summer in a yet undecided venue.
Singer Olivia Newton-John, husband Matt Lattanzi, and two daughters sold their five-level, seven-bedroom, eight-bathroom Malibu house for $7 million (£5 million).
The family is moving back temporarily to Australia - Olivia's home country - where she will host a television show.
Fresh from the sail-away success of Titanic, James Cameron now wants to return to dry land . . . the Planet of the Apes. The Canadian director says he is in talks with 20th Century Fox to produce a remake of the 1967 cult film.
Daniel Cohn-Bendit, the German firebrand of Paris's 1968 student riots, says he hopes to head the French Greens in 1999 elections to the European Parliament.
Cohn-Bendit was expelled by the late President Charles de Gaulle in May 1968. The expulsion order has long been lifted.