Cuban president Fidel Castro is likely to spend a week in Switzerland this month, attending key conferences of the World Health Organisation and the World Trade Organisation. He will be in Geneva from May 13th-21st, making at least one side-trip to Berne for a meeting with members of the Swiss government.
Former members of the Beatles yesterday won their court battle to stop the sale of an amateur recording made 36 years ago.
The group reached a settlement after the company claiming rights to the music agreed to abide by an injunction stopping the sale, after a four-day High Court hearing.
The world's only museum devoted to Barbra Streisand is closing its doors. Its proprietor, who built his small San Francisco storefront into a temple to "the voice of the century", has had it with the superstar.
"This whole thing has been like a slap in the face," Ken Joachim, who opened his "store-museum-tribute" two years ago in this city's heavily-gay Castro district, said yesterday.
Britain should consider electing its future monarchs, a former chaplain to Queen Elizabeth said yesterday. Writing in the London Independent newspaper, Canon Eric James said: "In England until 1213, the monarch was elected. Maybe the time is returning for election to the task and role."