BRITAIN'S Queen Mother, who turned 96 last month and had a hip replacement operation last November, took to the dance floor at a function at Balmoral Castle earlier this week.
"She's thrown her sticks away. She's a great dancer," Prince Charles said.
Supermodel Linda Evangelista (30) has a bad temper, according to Taiwan's media. She was said to have shouted and stalked up and down the arrivals hall at Taiwan's Chiang Kai-shek airport after officials told her they could not issue a visa because her passport had less than six months to run.
The Canadian model eventually slumped into a crouch while more officials were called and a visa was eventually granted.
Like her Rhodes-scholar father President Bill Clinton, first teenager Chelsea Clinton has shown her intellectual mettle by becoming a National Merit Scholarship semi-finalist. Chelsea, in her last year at Sidwell Friends high school, is among 19 semi-finalists at her school and 15,000 nationwide.
Disgraced former senator Bob Packwood is to have the unwelcome honour of seeing his sex scandal take the stage. The Packwood Diaries, written by Village Voice reporter Karen Houppert and her husband and play director Stephen Nunns, has opened in Washington.
"We used all the juicy entries," Houppert said, referring to the journals, newspaper stories and speeches that were the background to Packwoods' congressional hearings on how he behaved with his female staffers.
The private letters of Albert Einstein, including some 400 missives to his first wife, Mileva Marie, are to be auctioned by Christies in November. Among the most prized letters are 53 love notes Einstein and Marie exchanged between 1897 and 1903, when they were both students at the Polytechnicum in Zurich.
A Colombian beauty queen, who was named Miss Universe in 1993, has been arrested in Paris on suspicion of cocaine trafficking.
Sandra Murcia Vargas (24) was picked up while on her way to Charles de Gaulle airport to catch a flight to Colombia.
A jury has begun considering a claim by Mike Tyson's former trainer Kevin Rooney that the boxer breached a career-long contract and owes him £32 million. In closing arguments, the champion was portrayed by Rooney's solicitor as an "arrogant ingrate" for sacking Rooney, while Tyson's lawyer suggested that the alleged contract that bound them was made up.