THE LATE father of Kathleen Cotton (76) of Danville, Ohio, wouldn't have missed the Michael Collins film, she said.
The film, which stars Liam Neeson, deals with the assassination in 1920 of a dozen British intelligence officers in Dublin. Kathleen's father Charles Peel was the lone officer among the 13 to survive the attack Collins ordered.
Peel, who was 80 when he died in 1966, was transferred to Britain and discharged from the army after the killings.
"My father maintained until his dying day that his lucky number was 13," said Mrs Cotton.
The firstborn son of pop star Prince and his wife Mayte has died in a Minnesota hospital from a congenital cranial deformation, the Enquirer tabloid has said.
Lisbet Palme, the widow of assassinated Swedish prime minister Olof Palme, said yesterday she was satisfied with South Africa's help in investigating claims that the country's former apartheid regime was involved in his murder.
Two convicted South African police hit-squad leaders said apartheid agents had planned and carried out Palme's assassination on a Stockholm street in 1986.
Freddie Mercury, the late star of the British rock group Queen, has been honoured with a statue, unveiled in Montreux by opera diva Montserrat Caballe on the fifth anniversary of Mercury's death.
The bronze statue sculpted by Czech artist Irena Sedlecka shows Mercury standing, his shirt open, looking out over Lake Geneva.