A 93-year-old Danish woman married a 25-year-old man after he was fired from his job as a municipal home help for the elderly, a newspaper reported yesterday. Anna Margrethe Soerensen said she did not want to lose Peter Larsen, who she said had given her excellent care until he was dismissed for neglect after 13 months in the job.
Larsen told Ekstra Bladet he agreed to the marriage to save Soerensen from being moved to a nursing home.
Monica Lewinsky, Pope John Paul and the US Federal Reserve chairman, Alan Greenspan, should sit on a "fun regulation panel" at next year's world economic gathering in Davos, actor Warren Beatty said there yesterday.
Beatty said that instead of worrying about financial fund regulation, he would like to be on a panel discussion with Lewinsky, US special prosecutor Kenneth Starr, Greenspan and the Pope to "talk about whether fun can actually be regulated effectively in the global economy."
Friends and colleagues last night paid tribute to comedy actor Robin Nedwell, who died suddenly after collapsing during a routine visit to a doctor. He was 52. Nedwell starred in Doctor In The House, the 1970s television series about male medical students at the fictional St Swithin's Hospital. He played the part of Dr Duncan Waring.
British supermodel Naomi Campbell is to launch her own line in perfume, Cosmopolitan Cosmetics announced.
Banking heir Paul Mellon, who collected and then gave away some of the greatest art of this century, has died at his home in northern Virginia. He was 91.
Mellon's death on Monday in Upperville, Virginia, was announced by the National Gallery of Art in Washington, one of the prime beneficiaries of his artistic largesse.
An avid horseman Mellon led a long life of English-inspired gentility. "Whether you consider it a blessing or a burden, the inheritance is there," he once said.