PAULA YATES arrived back in Britain yesterday, vowing to fight for custody of her children while facing possible charges over possession of drugs.
Yates, former wife of Bob Geldol, who last week took custody of their three daughters, was in Australia with Michael Hutchence of the pop group, INXS, and their two month old daughter, Heavenly Hiranni Tiger Lily when she was informed of a drugs squad raid on her London home last week and Geldof's High Court custody action. After the raid the London Stan suspended the column Yates writes for it.
Lawyers in the O.J. Simpson civil trial have found a prospective juror who claims to know nothing about the criminal trial and couldn't care less.
"Do you have any strong feelings at all about this case?" asked plaintiff attorney Daniel Petrocelli. No I don't," said the woman, who is in her 20s.
A 14 year old British schoolgirl who went through with a marriage ceremony later declared invalid to a Turkish waiter she met on holiday gave birth to a baby boy yesterday. Sarah Cook met the father, Musa Komeagac, during a holiday she took with her parents to Turkey in 1995 when she was 12.
Explorer Sir Ranulph Fiennes was at London Zoo's penguin pool yesterday explaining why he is to risk his life by becoming the first man to walk alone and unaided across the Antarctic. The explorer hopes to raise £3 million for breast cancer charity, Breakthrough, on his record breaking journey, which begins next month.
Veteran Nazi hunter Simon Wiesenthal paid tribute to the Nuremberg trials yesterday, 50 years after allied judges pronounced verdicts against key figures in Adolf Hitler's Nazi regime.
Nuremberg was a just tribunal which . . . gave a fair hearing to the accused, he said.