ACTRESS Patsy Kensit (28) was yesterday granted a divorce from her rock star husband Jim Kerr (36), singer with Simple Minds. Kensit, who was previously married to Dan Donovan, keyboard player with Big Audio Dynamite, is now the girlfriend of Oasis singer Liam Gallagher.
Memorabilia from the estate of George Burns, who died in March, aged 100, fetched surprising prices at auction in Beverly Hills. A pair of his round spectacles went for 11,000, while gold and diamond cufflinks, with initials "GB-100", also went for $11,000.
Princess Diana has been kept guessing by former Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev, who is due to present the Princess with a humanitarian award in Italy tomorrow. He has failed so far to contact organisers of the event to confirm his attendance.
Actor Desmond Llewelyn - known as Q in the James Bond movies - is recovering in hospital after emergency surgery.
Llewelyn (82), who has been suffering an intestinal complaint, was admitted on Sunday.
Jewels belonging to a granddaughter of Queen Victoria who was stoned to death during the Russian revolution, have sold at auction for £95,000.
The gems belonged to the Grand
Duchess Elizabeth of Russia, a famous beauty who would withdraw during a grand occasion to change dresses and adorn herself with ever richer jewels.
McDonald's is to open its first restaurant in New Delhi next week, but its "Maharaja Mac" will not contain any beef, in keeping with Hindu religious practice.
Violinist Yehudi Menuhin is to visit Johannesburg next month, bearing gifts of more than 200 violins for South African musicians.
The presents are part of a Violins for Africa project Menuhin launched after his first post apartheid visit to South Africa in March 1995.