"You have to break the mould," Mick Jagger (54) says in Rolling Stone magazine, of the band's new album, Bridges to Babylon. The album features slowed down tempos borrowed from soul, R&B and the blues.
The band took just two months to record it, often jamming together, then recording various instrumental tracks separately.
Mother Teresa today plans to celebrate her 87th birthday in a low-key fashion. It is her first birthday since stepping down as head of her Missionaries of Charity order.
Sunita Kumar, a close associate, said admirers had already started visiting Mother Teresa in Calcutta on the eve of her birthday.
TV mimic Rory Bremner says he is facing his toughest career challenge to date - making Tony Blair and Peter Mandelson funny.
His new eight-part series of Rory Bremner . . . Who Else? begins this autumn on Channel 4, but Bremner admits he has yet to perfect his version of the PM and his Minister Without Portfolio.
Czech President Vaclav Havel (60) has instructed his lawyers to seek five million koruna (£100,000) in out-of-court damages from a shoe company which used his likeness in a poster campaign containing offensive language. The posters depict a sculpted bust of Havel being licked by a terrier dog, alongside an offensive slogan written in English. The image is a pun on the name of his wife, former actress Dagmar Veskrnova (43), whom Havel recently married after the death of his first wife.
Prince Andrew (37) has abandoned plans to pursue a career in the world of golf, Buckingham Palace said yesterday.
The Duke has already stepped up his number of engagements in preparation for leaving the Royal Navy in two years and it is thought he intends to play a more prominent role in the royal family.