Brazilian football star Ronaldo Luis Nazario Da Lima dreams about meeting Pope John Paul II and US pop star Michael Jackson, the Italian newspaper La Repubblica claimed yesterday. "I am very religious and I would like to kneel before John Paul II," Ronaldo said. "I would also like to meet Michael Jackson."
Marie-Louise Meilleur (116), the Canadian woman confirmed by the Guinness Book of Records as the world's oldest person, is blind and deaf, but loves to sing.
"When we go see her, she sings, `C'est le mois de Marie' (It's the Virgin Mary's month). And she sings very loud! She is very religious," her step-granddaughter said yesterday.
Geri Halliwell of the Spice Girls received the ultimate accolade yesterday - Archers character William Grundy has named his favourite cow after her.
William is entering his prize Jersey heifer in the autumn show and he is calling her Ginger Spice.
Her condition and beauty will be remarked upon by various members of the Grundy family over the next three weeks in the lead-up to the keenly contested event.
Former US secretary of state George Shultz yesterday exchanged wedding vows with the city of San Francisco's chief of protocol Charlotte Swig during a private ceremony.
A flurry of parties before the wedding has reportedly left Shultz ready for the honeymoon.
Yasser Arafat's wife Suha said in an interview published yesterday that Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu does not like Palestinians nor peace deals with them.
The Israeli daily Yedioth Ahronoth quoted her saying her people were suffering under Israeli sanctions imposed after a bombing on a Jerusalem market, but that she would not "beg" the Netanyahu family for aid.