KILAUREN GIBB was surfing the Internet when a picture of singer Joni Mitchell convinced her that the musician was the birth mother she had sought for years, the Toronto Star reported yesterday.
Gibb has just returned to Toronto with her son Marlin (3) after a 19-day reunion with Mitchell at the singer's Los Angeles home.
Mitchell had been searching for the daughter she gave up for adoption 32 years ago when she was poor and alone.
The notorious criminal, Charles Sobhraj, released after 20 years in Indian prisons for murder and robbery, arrived in Paris yesterday and was immediately charge with poisoning a group of students in India over a decade ago. India ordered him deported in February.
The former wife of Joseph Kennedy (44) is pursuing an appeal of their marriage annulment with Catholic officials in Rome, Boston newspapers reported.
Ms Sheila Rauch Kennedy, whose 12-year marriage to the son of Robert Kennedy was annulled by church officials in Boston last year, wrote about her opposition to the marriage annulment in her book, Shattered Faith, to be published in May, the Boston Herald reported.
Pope John Paul has appointed Archbishop Francis George to head Chicago's Roman Catholic church, the Vatican said yesterday.
The actor, Christopher Reeve, paralysed from the neck down in a riding accident, has completed his directorial debut, a TV film to be shown on April 20th.
Reeve, best known for his role as Superman, directed the actresses Glenn Close, Whoopi Goldberg and Bridget Fonda in In the Gloaming, about a young man who returns home to die and revives the love and connections in his family.