Veteran actor Gregory Peck met Mary Badham and Philip Alford, who appeared with him in To Kill a Mockingbird in 1962, at an awards ceremony yesterday in Hollywood.
The Princess of Wales was the source behind a book that demolished the myth of her fairytale marriage to Prince Charles, the author said yesterday.
"The story contained in its pages came from her lips," said Andrew Morton, whose Diana, Her True Story, exposed her suicide attempts, battle with eating disorders and heartache over her husband's infidelity.
Buckingham Palace condemned Morton's decision to release a new edition of the book, with a spokesman for the royal family saying it was "particularly sad coming as it does so soon after the princess's death" on August 31st.
The wife of French singer Charles Aznavour (72) was attacked by robbers who stole cash and jewellery from the couple's Paris home, police said yesterday.
His Swedish wife Ulla was not injured in the attack overnight at their home in the chic 16th arrondissement, while police said the value of goods stolen was relatively small. Aznavour himself was not at home at the time of the burglary.
A warrior chief and a young Sioux girl who died a century ago in England were returned to the soil of their homeland on Sunday in howling winds that tribal elders called a sacred sign of greeting.
Chief Long Wolf and a seven-year-old girl known as White Star, whose real name was Rose Ghost Dog, were laid to rest at the crest of a hill in the Wolf Creek graveyard in a village near South Dakota's Black Hills.
They died within two months of each other in 1892 while touring with Buffalo Bill Cody's Wild West Show in England, he at 59 from pneumonia and the debilitating aftermath of wounds suffered in three major battles between the Sioux and US cavalry, she from falling off a horse during one of Cody's shows.
They shared a west London grave until last week when the bodies were dug up and started on their journey back to Wolf Creek.
The right-wing Italian politician, Silvio Berlusconi, will stand trial beginning January 21st, 1998, on charges of tax evasion and fraud in a real estate deal, officials said yesterday.