Soccer legend George Best yesterday agreed to leave his London home following an out-of-court settlement of a legal row.
The settlement was reached between Best and Clydesdale Bank following a three-day battle at Central London County Court. The former Manchester United star will now leave his two-bedroom flat in Chelsea.
The bank was seeking possession of the property after it was claimed the mortgage had not been paid for three years and insisted it was owed more than £70,000 in arrears.
As many as 80 million television viewers could be glued to their sets tonight as the popular NBC comedy Seinfeld becomes part of television history.
The series created by stand-up comic Jerry Seinfeld, chronicling the lives of four self-absorbed New York baby-boomers, has over its nine-year run become most popular American TV show. The final show is an emotional moment for many TV viewers, similar to the end of M.A.S.H. in 1983, seen by an estimated 106 million viewers. The 105minute episode will cost advertisers a record $1.7 million (£1.2 million) for a 30-second spot.
Caribbean beauties took the three top places in the Miss Universe contest in Honolulu, Hawaii, in which the winner was Wendy Fitzwilliam (25) from Trinidad and Tobago. Miss Venezuela, Veruska Ramirez, and Miss Puerto Rico, Joyce Giraud, took second and third place.
Bulgaria's former communist dictator, Todor Zhivkov, has been admitted to a Sofia hospital for diabetic treatment, but his life is not in danger, doctors said yesterday.
"We have diagnosed increased blood sugar levels causing disorders such as heart arrhythmia, but he is not in a critical condition," the hospital director, Todor Gerasimov, said.