A roundup of today's other world stories in brief:
Diana's driver drunk before crash - claim
LONDON- Princess Diana's chauffeur was drunk and "staggering like a clown" just hours before the crash that killed her and her lover Dodi al-Fayed, the inquest into their deaths was told yesterday.
Alain Willaumez, barman at the Ritz Hotel in Paris, said of chauffeur Henri Paul: "I saw him drunk." He said Paul bumped into a colleague when walking out of the bar.
"He was walking like a clown," he said by videolink from Paris.
- (Reuters)
Picasso worth $50m stolen
SAO PAULO- Thieves broke into the Art Museum of Sao Paulo early yesterday and stole two oil paintings, the museum said, including Pablo Picasso's 1904 Portrait of Suzanne Bloch, which could be worth about $50 million (€34.9 million)
- (Reuters).
Cleric who 'jogged in nude' arrested
DENVER- A US clergyman claimed to have been jogging nude after being arrested for indecent exposure.
The Rev Robert Whipkey was arrested in a suburb of Denver, Colorado, after an officer saw him walking on a street naked at 4.35am.
He told police he jogged naked because he sweated heavily if he wore clothes. He will go on trial before a jury next March.
- (AP)
Writer appeals for more freedom
NEW DELHI- Exiled Bangladeshi Muslim writer, award-winner Taslima Nasreen, whose presence in India sparked riots following Islamist protests last month, said yesterday that New Delhi was forcing her to live under virtual house arrest, and appealed for more freedom.
- (AP)