NOBEL LAUREATE Alexander Solzhenitsyn (78) has been discharged from a Moscow hospital where he underwent treatment for heart trouble.
Doctors said his condition was stable and he would be able to recuperate further at home.
Britain's all-female Arctic expedition yesterday reached the North Pole after a 1,0009 km trek across shifting sea ice in sub-zero temperatures.
Three aircraft departed from Resolute Bay in northern Canada to pick up the team film financier Caroline Hamilton (32), physiotherapist Zoe Hudson (30), and journalist and designer Lucy Roberts (27), all from London, and film financier Pom Oliver (45), from High Wycombe.
Princess Diana yesterday travelled on board a Royal Squadron helicopter flying Queen Elizabeth's flag.
She formally opened Leicester University's Richard Attenborough Centre for Disability and the Arts on an official visit widely seen as re-launching her programme of official duties throughout Britain.
Mother Teresa (86), who appears to be in good health, is to spend two weeks resting in a retreat in New York run by her Missionaries of Charity religious order, a spokeswoman for the convent said yesterday.