The King of Spain became a grandfather for the first time yesterday when his daughter, Princess Elena, gave birth to a boy.
Elena, eldest daughter of King Juan Carlos and Queen Sofia, gave birth in a Madrid clinic where she was admitted a day earlier. The child is to be called Felipe Juan Froilan de Todos los Santos and will be baptised in the autumn, the palace said in a statement.
Elena is married to banker Jaime de Marichalar.
French far-right leader Jean- Marie Le Pen yesterday confirmed attending a malestrippers show at the Folies Bergeres and said he had enjoyed every minute.
Le Pen and his bodyguards were spotted by the daily Liberation at the cabaret in Paris last week enjoying the "California Dream Men" in upstairs seats overlooking women spectators packed downstairs close to the stage.
"I have never considered nudity to be immoral, at least when it is beautiful," Le Pen said.
Cambodian leader Hun Sen was admitted to a Phnom Penh hospital yesterday night and was expected to have his appendix removed, an official in the co-premier's office said.
Hun Sen (47) leads his Cambodian People's Party into a general election on July 26th.
The head of an Indian memorial committee yesterday told the leader of Mother Teresa's order of nuns to "mind your own business" after she objected to plans to pay homage to the late Nobel prize winner.
"The Missionaries of Charity is objecting to our plans to raise funds for Mother Teresa's statue, but we will go ahead," Shyam Sundar Gupta, chairman of the Mother Teresa Memorial Committee, told reporters. "We have got the goverment's permission," the politician and former mayor of Calcutta said.
The committee plans to erect a bronze statue at a cost of 800,000 rupees (about £11,500) and wants to confer a "Mother Teresa Award" and rename Calcutta's Park Street "Mother Teresa Street".