ON the fifth anniversary of the Gulf War against Iraq, former US President George Bush says he should have sought Saddam Hussein's personal surrender at the end of the war.
In an interview with David Frost to be shown tomorrow on public TV, Bush said he erred in thinking Saddam would fall from power.
Israeli President Ezer Weizman said yesterday he could not understand how Jews continued living in Germany after the Holocaust.
Weizman (72), on a four day visit to Germany, told Israel Radio relations between the two states today were good, but he added: "I, for example, cannot understand how 40,000 Jews can live in Germany. The one thing I can say to Jews is what I always say to diaspora Jews. . .The place of the Jews is in Israel."
The former Bishop of Birmingham, the Right Rev Hugh Montefiore, said a thanksgiving service at Coventry Cathedral on Wednesday, celebrating the centenary of the British motor industry, should include recognition of the misery the car has caused.
Virgin tycoon Richard Branson flies to Morocco tomorrow to launch his hid for one of the last great unclaimed the non stop circumnavigation of the globe by balloon. He hopes to take off on Wednesday for an 18 day flight.
Egyptian film star and heart throb Omar Sharif (63) has only met his illegitimate son's mother for a total of five minutes in his life. "His mother, the Italian journalist Lula de Luca, came to interview me 25 years ago and in five minutes it was done . . . A year later she telephoned me to say she had had my child and had called him Robin," he told the Cairo weekly Rose al Yusself.
Sparks flew on Cilla Black's Blind Date on Saturday as viewers saw one of the most vicious bust ups in the show's history.
For Kerrie Allison (21) and Tony Simms their dream date in the Bahamas turned sour within hours. Kerrie said Tony was a "letdown".