President Bill Clinton is likely to meet Palestinian leader, Yasser Arafat, when he visits Washington this week, the White House said.
Mr Arafat was to fly to Washington today for what a Palestinian diplomat in Cairo said would be talks with Mr Clinton on the next steps in Palestinian Israeli peace talks.
Dr William McBride, credited with alerting the world to the dangers of the anti morning sickness drug thalidomide, announced yesterday he is giving up his battle to practise medicine.
His name was removed from the New South Wales state medical register in 1993 after a tribunal found him guilty of scientific fraud. The same tribunal refused to re register him yesterday.
French art lovers prefer the Impressionism of Monet and Van Gogh to the more modern artistic styles of Picasso or Miro, according to a survey published yesterday.
Picasso is the least liked painter overall, followed by avant garde painters like Salvador Dali and Marc Chagall. At the top comes Monet, who gets the thumbs up from 36 per cent of those questioned, according to the poll by the French culture ministry.
The biggest equestrian event ever staged in Britain, featuring more than 1.000 horses, will mark the golden wedding anniversary of Queen Elizabeth and the Duke of Edinburgh next year, organisers announced yesterday.
Millionaire zoo owner, John Aspinall, says his keepers would be going back in tiger cages "very soon" after he won another victory against the council which tried to ban his controversial "hands on" policy.
An industrial tribunal in Ashford, Kent, yesterday agreed to Aspinall's request to change the terms on which staff can enter tiger enclosures. Aspinall imposed a voluntary ban on staff entering enclosures after keeper Trevor Smith (28) was mauled to death in November 1994.