THE woman who filed a sexual battery complaint against the boxer Mike Tyson last week has gone public with her charges at a press conference.
LaDonna August (25), a beautician who had been unidentified until Tuesday, sat surrounded by bodyguards as her lawyers described her version of events at the Clique nightclub in Chicago on April 7th.
The TV campaigner Mary Whitehouse has written to the British Attorney General urging him to take action over bad language in the last TV plays by Dennis Potter.
Whitehouse has written to Sir Nicholas Lyell telling him he must take action against the BBC and Channel 4 if he believes Potter's two four hour dramas, Karaoke and Cold Lazarus, contravene the 1990 Broadcasting Act.
Sirima Bandaranaike, the grande dame of Sri Lankan politics who rose from being a shy housewife to be the world's first woman prime minister, turned 80 yesterday.
Now frail and in poor health, Bandaranaike sat and accepted greetings from hundreds of VIPs and diplomats.
Actress Letitia Dean has landed her first big role since leaving EastEnders 10 months ago. The 28 year old former Albert Square landlady will play telephonist Chris Cross in BBC 1's Connecting You which goes into production this summer.
French writer turned diplomat Francois Regis Bastide has died at his Paris home. He was 69. Bastide, who wrote novels and plays for television and theatre, was one of several left wing intellectuals "parachuted" into an ambassadorial post by the socialist president Francois Mitterrand after his election in 1981.
French film maker Jean Pierre Jeunet is to direct Alien Resurrected, starring Sigourney Weaver, with filming to begin next November.
The fourth Alien instalment also stars Winona Ryder and is expected early next year.
The US ambassador to France Pamela Harriman has been made a Commander of France's Order of Arts and Letters in recognition of her patronage of fine arts.
The award recognises her role in helping arrange the Paris exhibition of the Barnes Collection of impressionist paintings which had never left the US before.