James Major (23), the only son of the former British Prime Minister, John Major, is to marry former television game show hostess, Emma Noble, after a three-month relationship.
The couple announced their engagement in yesterday's London Times. Last June James Major broke off a three-year relationship with a 34-year-old divorcee and his whirlwind romance with Noble (26) has attracted front-page tabloid newspaper coverage.
The man who shot and wounded Pope John Paul II in 1981 says that were he released he would like to "embrace the Pope before the eyes of the entire world," the Anatolia new agency yesterday reported. Ali Agca said he would like to meet him "because there are several things which are still not resolved between myself and the Pope. I want to be at peace with myself."
Agca, who was responding to written questions sent to him by Turkish media on the anniversary of his May 13th attack on the Pope, also said he wanted to become a Vatican citizen. He was visited in prison and forgiven by the Pope in 1983 for his attack. Agca was jailed for life but said he was waiting for a pardon from Italian President, Luigi Scalfaro.
Italian media mogul and former prime minister, Silvio Berlusconi, is suing a group of Milan magistrates for waging what he describes as a witchhunt against him and his Fininvest SpA empire.
A spokesman for Berlusconi said his lawyers yesterday filed a suit in the northern town of Brescia against five leading anti-corruption magistrates in the Milan prosecutor's office. The five are accused of abuse of office and attacking the political rights of citizens.
Peru's President Alberto Fujimori's former wife, Susana Higuchi, has sued him to collect a £900,000 debt she says he refuses to pay.
Higuchi, whose 22-year marriage to Fujimori ended in an ugly divorce in 1996, said in a television interview that she had loaned Fujimori the money to finance his 1990 presidential campaign. She said that she has a document with Fujimori's signature and fingerprint in which he acknowledges the debt, but that Fujimori in 1997 told a judge under oath that he had never signed the document.
An expert examination of the signature and fingerprint carried out at her request has shown that they belong to Fujimori, she said.
Higuchi's lawyer, Alberto Bautista, said the case will show if Peru's judicial system is independent or controlled by Fujimori, as his critics contend.