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THE estranged wife of English rugby captain Will Carling will not name Princess Diana in divorce proceedings, sparing the British…

THE estranged wife of English rugby captain Will Carling will not name Princess Diana in divorce proceedings, sparing the British royal family the threat of another scandal the Sun newspaper has reported.

Will and Julia Carling separated last September following reports of his friendship with Diana after he met the princess at an exclusive London health club.

US film director Martin Scorsese is outraged at Swedish censorship authorities who want to cut two violent scenes from his latest movie, and has written to the country's Supreme Administrative Court asking them to reverse the decision.

Casino, starring Sharon Stone and Robert De Niro, depicts the mafia in Las Vegas in the 1970s. The first scene involves a victim's head being placed in a vice the second shows a man being beaten to death with a baseball bat.

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French oceanographer Jacques Cousteau's ship, the Calypso, is lying partially submerged on the seabed near a Singapore shipyard, where it had been berthed since September.

The ship's agent declined to explain the sinking, saying only "The matter will be taken care of by the ship's owner.

US presidents John F. Kennedy and Richard Nixon were friends before the 1960 presidential campaigns, according to a new book, Christopher Matthews writes in Kennedy and Nixon that after both men were elected to the House of Representatives in 1946, Nixon was the only outsider invited to Kennedy's office birthday parties and that Nixon cried when told Kennedy might die after back surgery in 1954.

Kennedy contributed $1,000 to Nixon's 1950 Senate race and gave Nixon a list of women he could call on in Paris when he left for a fact finding mission to Europe. Nixon's secretary said her former boss, who was married at the time, accepted the list out of embarrassment.

O.J. Simpson, in a video aired on TV said police would have found blood smeared on the gates to his home and on walls had he really killed his ex wife.

"No blood on any of the gates. If there's the bloody glove and the bloody hand that's dripping blood one would think that there would be some blood around here the former football star said, pointing to iron gates outside his home".

Actor David Hasselhoff is to be honoured with a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame next Thursday when he leaves his hand and footprints on the famous pavement, along with other stars of the Baywatch television series that has made Hasselhoff a household name.