WALLACE and Gromit have turned up in the boot of a New York taxi.
Animator Nick Park mislaid the plasticine models during a promotional tour, but the taxi driver responded to a missing persons hunt and found the pair where Park had left them.
Princess Diana has dismissed speculation that she is to give a TV interview. She told friends she was "dismayed" at the suggestion.
Luciano Pavarotti (61), in London to attend the Three Sopranos Gala Concert, was reticent about plans to marry Nicoletta Mantovani (27), for whom he left Adua, his wife of 35 years.
Looking irritated by reporters' questions, he said: "It's raining. I can't hear you, my dear."
German rock star Nina Hagen (41) spent a night in a Los Angeles jail after beating husband David Lynn, 15 years her junior, with a plastic bottle, giving him a black eye, the daily Express reported.
Despite efforts to convince police it had been an accident she is to appear in court today charged with "domestic violence" after being released on a $5,000 bail bond.
Gen George Zoitakis, one of the leaders of the so called junta of colonels that ruled Greece between 1967 and 1974, has died in Athens. He was aged 86.
Zoitakis was commander of the Greek Army's 3rd corps when the colonels seized power, and was named regent following the departure of former King Constantine.
British author John le Carre has criticised New York Times Book Review editors during an appearance in New York to promote his new novel, The Tailor of Panama He interrupted a reading from the work to protest against the newspaper's book reviewer, who seemed to be accusing him of anti Semitism.