Ivana Trump, Czech-born former wife of American billionaire property tycoon Donald, has bought a major stake in the Croatian daily newspaper Slobodna Dalmacija. Trump said she is also negotiating deals to invest in a nationwide private television network and a department store in the centre of Split, Croatia's second city. All three are owned by Croatian tycoon Miroslav Kutle's Globus group.
The paper, whose name means "Free Dalmatia", was the only opposition newspaper in Croatia until the government imposed a management board in 1993.
Italian Prime Minister Romano Prodi treated Germany's Chancellor Helmut Kohl to some Italian cuisine when they finished talks this week, with a dinner near the ancient Pantheon in central Rome.
The two sat down in the Fortunato restaurant to mixed salami antipasti and three types of pasta including ravioli and gnocchi, or potato dumplings.
They followed with lamb, roast shin of veal, artichokes, asparagus, washed down with white and Chianti red wines.
For pudding, the chancellor and Prodi tucked into tiramisu, fruits of the forest, cooked pears and cheesecake with wine from the Aeolian islands off Sicily.
A concert is to be held at Althorp Park, burial place of Princess Diana, the Spencer family announced yesterday. It will be held on June 27th - just four days before the princess's birthday, when the estate opens for the first time to the public.
An Althorp spokeswoman said the concert - of classical, pop and rock music - is to celebrate the life of Diana.
China yesterday fired a propaganda broadside at the movie Seven Years in Tibet, detailing the Nazi ties of Heinrich Harrer, played by Brad Pitt in the film, and criticising Hollywood for glorifying a Nazi "thug" and opposing the human spirit.
The film is about Harrer's 1940s exploits in the Himalayan region, where he met and became tutor to the young Dalai Lama, Tibet's spiritual leader.