PRINCE Letsie David Mohato will be sworn in as Lesotho's new king next Wednesday the government said yesterday.
He succeeds his father King Moshoeshoe II, who was killed in a car crash on a mountain road on January 15th.
Plans by Michael Jackson to shoot a music video in a poor and violent Rio shantytown have upset officials who fear bad publicity will hurt efforts to boost the city's image, newspapers there said.
"Just when we're trying to turn the city around, when we're competing to host the 2004 Olympics, a video like this could have a devastating effect," Rio de Janeiro state tourism secretary Ronaldo Cezar Coelho said.
A television production company run by Britain's Prince Edward is to make a £6 million documentary about his grandmother, the Queen Mother. The project is for eight hour long episodes.
Stephen Fry is to play Oscar Wilde in a new film called Wilde Life. It will be directed by Brian Gilbert, who made Tom And Viv, about poet T.S. Eliot.
A second attempt to launch Europe's biggest home made rocket is to take place today.
British amateur rocket scientist Steve Bennet is planning to relaunch Starchaser 2 from a site near Newcastle. His previous attempt, powered by sugar and weed killer, last year failed to lift off.
Models Claudia Schiffer, Naomi Campbell and Karen Mulder are to go on sale in small, replica form as stylish children's dolls. "I can see myself very well as a children's doll," said Mulder.