A magazine devoted to the life and death of Princess Diana went on sale in Albania yesterday and was snapped up with passion by Albanians eager for a memento of the "People's Princess". In Tirana, where life is just returning to normality after months of civil unrest, the magazine sold for 200 leks (£1).
Pablo Picasso's La Reve, a sensual portrait of the artist's 22-year-old mistress and the eventual mother of his daughter, Maya, was sold for $44 million at auction on Monday.
The work, sold by Christie's from the art collection of the estate of Americans Victor and Sally Ganz, who bought the work in 1941 for $7,000, had a presale estimate of $30 million. The buyer was not disclosed.
ITV star Richard Madeley was again left by himself to present the daytime show This Morning yesterday when his wife and copresenter, Judy Finnegan, was too ill to appear.
It was the fourth programme that Judy had missed, but a spokeswoman for the ITV show insisted there had been no arguments between the couple.
TV comic Paul O'Grady will call time on his acid-tongued creation, Lily Savage, when he thinks she is losing her dignity, he said yesterday.
"Lily won't go on forever. She's a bit of a slapper, and I don't want her to be 60, still in a leopard-skin mini with my varicose veins popping through," he told the Radio Times.
Towering well above his own 6ft 2in in her heels, Lily made short work of drunken hecklers in the rough pubs he used to play, he said. "Lots of times I'd get off the stage and belt a fella, maybe a drunk chucking bottles, and the audience loved it."
The Spice Girls met their record company yesterday to plan their future - with Virgin bosses believing the search for a replacement for sacked manager, Simon Fuller, could be a long one.