British actor Ian McKellen escorted Monica Lewinsky to the London premiere of the film Gods and Monsters on Thursday night (above). Lewinsky, who has just finished a tour of Britain to promote the book Monica's Story by Andrew Morton, was also seen stepping out for the Oscar award ceremony in Los Angeles on Sunday night.
President Nelson Mandela yesterday bade farewell to parliament and paid tribute to the achievements of five years of democratic government, ending a remarkable era of political change in South Africa.
Mandela told MPs in their final session in the Cape Town parliament before national elections on June 2nd that all political parties had worked hard to overcome the divisions left by apartheid.
Chelsea football coach and former England star Graham Rix was yesterday sentenced to 12 months' imprisonment for having unlawful sex with a 15-year-old girl, and indecently assaulting her. Rix (41) of Richmond, south west London, looked shaken as he was sentenced.
Burma's pro-democracy leader Aung San Suu Kyi turned away two representatives of the military government yesterday when they came to offer help in visiting her seriously-ill British husband, a government spokesman said. The offer included a guarantee that the Nobel Peace Prize winner could return to Burma after the visit. Suu Kyi's husband, Michael Aris (52), is suffering from advanced prostate cancer.