Elizabeth Hurley has accepted libel damages from the Daily Mirror for an article indicating that any man who fancied her could hire her for functions at a cost of £12,000. The Mirror is believed to have paid the actress about £50,000 in damages for the article, "Rent-A-Liz. It's a Bargain".
Her solicitor, Keith Schilling, said the article made "a grossly offensive comparison between Miss Hurley and Miss Divine Brown", the American prostitute caught with Hugh Grant.
Pele, now Brazil's sports minister, has been made a Knight Commander of the Order of the British Empire by Queen Elizabeth at a private ceremony in Buckingham Palace.
Like other honorary knights, such as Bob Geldof, he may not call himself Sir Pele, but can use the letters KBE.
Untouched for decades, a mansion built by the Vanderbilt family is up for sale at $30 million, making it the most expensive house in New York.
The Vanderbilt Fabbri mansion is admired by architectural experts because it has all of its original detail. But real estate agent Sharon Baum said it would cost the buyer an estimated $5 million to renovate.
The Manhattan mansion has barely been touched since 1914 when Ernesto Fabbri and Edith Sheppard, a great-granddaughter of Commodore Cornelius Vanderbilt, moved in after their honeymoon.
Nude scenes have been cut from a Paul McCartney video to avoid it being banned from British television.
McCartney combined with Ringo Starr to record Beautiful Night. Actress Emma Moore was filmed disrobing and swimming naked for the closing scenes in Julien Temple's video.
Britain's Culture Secretary Chris Smith has stepped in to reject "overnight" changes at the Royal Opera House as a select committee report demanded its bosses resign en masse. Mr Smith broke precedent with his immediate reply to the report, which lamented "abysmal failures" at Covent Garden.
His move reprieves the Royal Opera House board and chief executive Mary Allen from immediate calls to quit.
The former president of the Soviet Union, Mr Mikhail Gorbachev, a Nobel prizewinner, is to appear in a television commercial for Pizza Hut.
The advertisement was filmed in a Moscow restaurant and will be screened in the new year.