TWO photographers claimed yesterday they needed hospital treatment after bodyguards tried to prevent them taking pictures of US President Bill Clinton's daughter, Chelsea, who was on holiday in Italy.
The two paparazzi, Riccardo Germogli and Marco Savoia, said they were chased through the narrow streets of Florence after they started taking photos of Chelsea as she left a disco late on Friday night.
Chelsea is now in Spain, and yesterday enjoyed a boating trip off the Balearic Islands of the south-eastern coast with her parents and King Juan Carlos and Queen Sofia.
Their relationship has broken up, but actress Gwyneth Paltrow is still showing her support for former boyfriend and global heart-throb Brad Pitt.
Ever since the couple suddenly split on what appeared to be the eve of marriage a few months ago, celebrity watchers, have been trying to figure out why Paltrow and the actor once considered the most handsome man in the world ended their romance. One possible culprit: Claire Forlani, Pitt's co- star in the upcoming movie Meet Joe Black.
But Paltrow, it seems, had enough of the nasty talk about her ex- boyfriend. "The desperation to uncover a reason why has produced information which is false, unfair, and foolish," she wrote in a letter to the New York newspaper Newsday. "Not only is Brad Pitt beyond reproach, but he is a man of extreme integrity and goodness."
Paltrow, however, gave no explanation for the breakup.
More than 3,000 people turned out in driving rain at a Budapest cemetery to commemorate the eighth anniversary of the death of the creator of "goulash communism," Janos Kadar, who died a few months before the collapse of communism in eastern Europe in 1989.
The gathering was organised by the formerly communist Labour party, whose leader Gyula Tuermer told supporters that "under Kadar people lived better".
Hungary had since "divided into two, becoming the country of several million poor people and a few hundred thousand rich people," he said.