Prince Charles yesterday became the first British royal to visit Bhutan, a small Himalayan enclave bordered by India, China and Tibet.
Charles, on the final leg of a three-nation Asian tour, is visiting Buddhist monasteries and will spend time trekking in the hills.
Author and playwright Halldor Laxness has died. He was aged 95. Born in Reykjavik, he won the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1955, the only Icelander ever to win a Nobel prize. He began his career as a surrealist novelist, but is best known for his social realism of the 1930s.
Daniel Day-Lewis prepared so well for his role in The Boxer that his tutor, former world boxing champion Barry McGuigan said he's easily among Britain's top 20 middleweights.
Argentine President Carlos Menem yesterday approved a monthly pension of 1,000 pesos (£680) for the widow of Oskar Schindler. Emily Schindler (90), who is sick, poor and lives alone outside Buenos Aires, received no money from Steven Spielberg's movie about her and her husband's efforts to save Jews during the Holocaust.