THE FORMER wife of Rolling Stone Mick Jagger has called on the international community to stay, in Bosnia after next month's elections.
Bianca Jagger said: "I hope that the international community will not leave Bosnia in the next two years because I think it would be premature."
She has made a career in recent years of pursuing human rights issues, especially for Amnesty International.
The chess playing IBM Corporation System is to get another chance to play Garry Kasparov, who beat the supercomputer, called Deep Blue, in February.
Meanwhile, the Russian chess veteran Anatoly Karpov is to challenge the world in a virtual chess game on the Internet.
After every move by Karpov, the rest of the world has 10 minutes to enter moves against him. A server will select the most frequently proposed move and execute it.
"Surfers" who want to play on Monday, August 26th, can go to http://www.tele.fi/karpov at 1000 GMT.
Joan Collins (63), the former Dynasty actress, was invited to Venice by Lady Carole Bamford in 1994, for a 10 day stay.
But she left the city's Palazzo Albrizzi after just two days, following a night of haunted dreams, strange temperature changes and a spectral apparition. Lady Bamford's chauffeur later reported seeing a ghost walking towards him in the palace.
The incidents are recounted in Strange But True Encounters on ITV later this month.
Los del Rio, the Spanish flamenco duo behind the hit La Macarena are to record a single with opera star Montserrat Caballe. It will not be the first pop engagement for Caballe, who previously recorded the single Barcelona with the late Freddy Mercury, lead singer with Queen.