BRITISH actor Sir John Gielgud was given one of the country's highest honours yesterday when Queen Elizabeth appointed him a member of the Order of Merit.
Buckingham Palace said Gielgud (92) would become the 24th member of the order, which is bestowed as a personal gift by the queen to honour exceptional contributions to the arts, science and the armed forces.
The order, founded in 1902 by King Edward VII, is limited to 24 members. Gielgud fills the vacancy left by the death of Sir Frank Whittle, inventor of the jet engine, last August.
Choking back tears, the father of murder victim Ronald Goldman testified yesterday at the O.J. Simpson wrongful death civil trial that his son's death has forever changed his life. "There isn't a day that goes by that I don't think of him," Fred Goldman said. "Life will never, never be the same."
Former Zambian president Kenneth Kaunda has stopped estate run television from airing a documentary on him alleging that he and the independent Post newspapers have been painting a negative picture of the country abroad.
"Due to circumstances beyond our control we are unable to bring you the programme," a ZNBC spokesman said in a short statement shortly before the broadcast of A Trail of Deceit was to have begun. The documentary was made by the Zambia Information Services.
The Israeli based Wolf Foundation has awarded its annual physics prize to US scientist John Archibald Wheeler, one of the pioneers in developing nuclear physics and the theory of black holes.
Wheeler (85) was honoured for his "seminal contributions to black hole physics, to quantum gravity and to the theories of nuclear scattering and nuclear fission".