The woman who slapped former Greek first lady Dimitra ("Mimi") Liani, widow of the former Greek prime minister, Andreas Papandreou, at a book signing in Athens last week says she is not sorry and she wanted to do it for nine years.
Anastasia Athini-Tsouni said: "The truth is, I have felt like slapping this woman since the moment I saw her, (when) Andreas Papandreou essentially forced her on the whole of the Greek people."
A group of animal rights activists, who stormed one of Britain's poshest restaurants, the Quo Vadis, in Covent Garden, to protest at an exhibition by controversial artist Damien Hirst, received fines and cost orders and were bound over to the peace. The court was told "mayhem" had broken out.
DJ Chris Evans has courted political controversy by saying the Tory leader, William Hague, should "declare himself a raving homosexual". His comments came in the wake of the Conservative Party's Blackpool conference, where Mr Hague appeared to acknowledge gay relationships as a fact of life.
Pulitzer Prize-winning author James Michener (90) has taken himself off of kidney dialysis treatments in Texas. His condition was not immediately known, but a long-time associate John Kings told ABC News the writer was "undergoing evaluation. He's off dialysis and it is not needed at this time."
Spain's Crown Prince Felipe, heir to the throne and the country's most eligible bachelor, has a new German girlfriend, Countess Caroline of Waldburg (26), according to the Spanish weekly Epoca.
A spokeswoman for the royal household would neither confirm nor deny the report.