The Swedish royal household admitted yesterday Crown Princess Victoria (20) has an eating disorder. The statement came after recent photographs, showing the heir to the Swedish throne appearing significantly thinner, prompted speculation in the popular press.
The royal family decided to make her disorder known in hopes of reducing the stress from media speculation.
Seven medical doctors are standing for the post of head of the World Health Organisation (WHO) next July, including former Norwegian prime minister, Gro Harlem Brundtland, and Nafis Sadik, the Pakistani head of the UN Population Fund. Three of the candidates to succeed WHO's Japanese director-general, Hiroshi Nakajima, are directors of WHO's regional offices, while another is deputy director. The seventh, Arif Batayneh, is a former health minister of Jordan.
X Files star Gillian Anderson has a told a US magazine she believes aliens have already landed on earth and there has been an international cover-up.
"This is going to make me sound like a complete nut," she said.
Anderson says security has become so tight on the set of X Files that scripts are shredded to stop them getting into the hands of obsessive fans.
Princess Diana mania shows no sign of abating in the US. Elton John's Candle in the Wind remains top of the charts and more than 40 books on the princess are either on the market or being prepared.
Three books are on the New York Times best-seller list and one publisher is rushing to produce a follow-up to a 142-picture volume on Diana.
Salman Rushdie said the decision by the Sri Lankan government to withdraw permission for the BBC to film his novel, Midnight's Children, was "a colossal blow". Plans to produce a £5 million serialisation were put on hold after Sri Lanka's decision to reverse a previous agreement.