WHILE Mission Impossible exceeded Jurassic Park in first day box office profits, it slipped into second place for breaking the $100 million mark in the quickest time.
The new release starring Tom Cruise and Emmanuelle Beart made $108 million in 11 days, no match for Steven Spielberg's dinosaur spectacular which reached the nine figure mark in only nine days.
Italian Radical party leader Marco Pannella is to face trial for allegedly handing out drugs in the streets of Rome.
Pannella, an ally of centre right leader and former prime minister Silvio Berlusconi, is accused of distributing hashish and marijuana in August and December last year as part of a campaign to get soft drugs legalised.
Actor Sharon Stone's latest conquest, according to People magazine, is rock musician Dweezil Zappa, son of the late Frank Zappa.
Stone (38) and Dweezil (26) have been acquainted for years, but decided to strike up a more intimate relationship in recent weeks. They were seen together at the premiere of Mission Impossible in Los Angeles.
Karl Habsburg, grandson of the last Austro Hungarian emperor, is to run as a conservative candidate in Austria's European Parliament elections next October.