THE LATE Francois Mitterrand's doctor has renewed a plea to an appeals court to allow him to release his tell tale book on the former French president after his widow denied demanding a ban on it. Dr Claude Gubler's lawyer said he had written to.the Paris appeals court to draw its attention to Danielle Mitterrand's statements.
A court blocked sales of Gubler's Le Grand Secret after lawyers for Mitterrand's family argued it breached medical secrecy and invaded privacy.
Thieves stole jewellery and money worth £63,650 from the home of Egypt's top belly dancer, Fifi Abdou, Egyptian police said yesterday.
The police said they were looking for three of her maids in connection with the robbery.
The Chinese film queen Gong Li did her patriotic duty in parliament yesterday, but left the world hungering for bigger news whether she'd secretly married in Singapore.
The star of Temptress Moon and Shanghai Triad and Farewell My Concubine and other international hits, would not comment on reports that she had taken businessman Ooi Hoe Seong as her husband on February 15th in a civil ceremony.
Gong briefly discussed her civic role in the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference, a body of retired officials and "leading citizens" that advises the National People's Congress, China's communist parliament.
The Duchess of York's Budgie The Little Helicopter received a boost today following reports that the royal cartoon creation had flopped in the United States.
Sleepy Kids, the company marketing Budgie, denied that Fox Children's Network (FCN) in the US was about to ditch the animated TV series.