A PARIS court yesterday ordered Brigitte Bardot (61) to pay 150,000 francs (£18,750) to her ex-husband Jacques Charrier and 100,000 francs to her son by him, Nicolas Charrier, over passages in her book Initiales B.B.
The ruling said some passages constituted "intimate and hurtful revelations".
Greeks and Turks in divided Cyprus are organising a summer concert with composers Mikis Theodorakis of Greece and Zulfu Livaneli of Turkey, a UN official said yesterday.
The concert is tentatively scheduled for June in the compound of the Nicosia International Airport.
Princess Diana and her former maid Sylvia McDermott (44) yesterday came to an amicable agreement over an industrial tribunal case for unfair dismissal.
McDermott had brought the case but before the hearing in London, solicitors acting for the two women reached a confidential agreement.
McDermott agreed to accept an undisclosed sum in "full and final settlement" of her claim
Australian pianist David Helfgott, whose story is told in the film Shine, got a searing review at his US concert debut in Boston.
"The sad fact is that David Helfgott should not have been at Symphony Hall last night and neither should the rest of us," Boston Globe critic Richard Dyer wrote yesterday.
Ronald and Nancy Reagan have celebrated their 45th wedding anniversary at their Bel Air home in Los Angeles.
Ronald married Nancy, his second wife, in Studio City near LOS Angeles in 1952. Actor William Holden was his best man.
Macaulay Culkin (16) should dip into his earnings as the star of Home Alone, and other films, to help his embattled parents make ends meet, a judge in New York has ruled.
Macaulay's unmarried parents Christopher Culkin (52) and Patricia Brentrup (42) are involved in a custody battle for their seven children.
The parents, who split up in 1995 after a 21-year relationship, and whose only money comes from managing their children's acting careers, are unable to keep up payments on their three apartments.
A grand jury in Cambridge, Massachusetts, has indicted an 18-year-old British nanny on a first degree murder charge in the death of a nine-month-old boy in her care.
Louise Woodward, of Chester, has already been indicted on a charge of assault and battery in the February death of Matthew Eappen, and has pleaded not guilty to that charge.
Brunei's Sultan Hassanal Bolkiah (50) has denied he ever met Shannon Marketic (26), a former Miss USA.
Marketic has filed a damage suit in a US federal court against the sultan, alleging he drugged and sexually abused her after she was lured to Brunei with a promise of a job.