A FIVE YEAR OLD African orphan who has survived for 16 months with a bullet lodged in her skull arrived in Britain yesterday for what may be a life saving operation.
Tenneh Cole (left), whose name means "God will provide", has the bullet from an AK47 rifle lodged beneath her right eye, two millimetres from her optic nerve. The child, found weeping over the bodies of her dead parents after rebel guerrillas attacked her village in Sierra Leone, was cheerful at Heathrow yesterday.
The bullet was discovered when doctors at a refugee camp X-rayed her skull to discover why she had hearing speech and sight difficulties.
Bob Geldof and Paula Yates are to divorce today. Their case is listed for a "quickie" procedure at Somerset House in London.
Paula filed for divorce in December on the grounds of Bob's adultery. News of the couple's break up emerged last February when newspapers discovered her romance with Michael Hutchence, lead singer of Australian rock band INXS.
Peruvian writer Mario Vargas Llosa is this year's winner of a peace prize awarded by the German book industry. The prize committee said Vargas Llosa had placed equality and justice at the centre of his novels and essays. It praised him as a man of "unusual civil courage, who fights to defend his conviction that politics and morality must not be separated".
The prize of 25,000 deutschmarks (£10,500) is awarded by a foundation financed by the German book industry.
British actress Julie Andrews, who won an Oscar as Mary Poppins, has told the Tony awards nominating committee she does not want to be considered for Broadway's highest honour.
But the committee refused and said her nomination as best actress in a musical would remain for Broadway's version of the Oscars. Andrews is upset with the committee, which nominated her as best actress in a musical but ignored every one else in her hit show Victor/Victoria.
The Chinese President Jiang Zemin went on safari in Kenya yesterday, catching a glimpse of five lions, three cheetahs and a rhinoceros. Jiang, on a state visit, spent 90 minutes at the Nairobi national park, adjacent to the Kenyan capital.