FEELING fit and cheerful, Mother Teresa (86) is pressing to leave hospital. But doctors said yesterday she must first regain more strength after her two-week fight against malaria and pneumonia.
"She is pressing us everyday to release her," said S.K. Sen, medical director at Calcutta's Woodlands Nursing Home.
"It is virtually a tug of war every day, and every day we are telling her that we are going to release her tomorrow," the doctor said.
Princess Diana had to dip into her reported £17 million divorce settlement to pay in cash for two lipsticks when her credit card was rejected, the Sun has reported.
The tabloid said Diana, whose divorce became final last week, looked furious as her card was turned down twice for the £24 payment.
Her spokesman said the card had expired and blamed the shop, Harvey Nicholls in London's Knightsbridge, for being slow to send her a new one.
Argentine President Carlos Menem, stung by criticism for playing golf on foreign visits and during a general strike, has accused his detractors of envy and argued that golf helped him think.
"Perhaps this is the product of the impotence of those who can't play this sport," the Peronist leader said. He is frequently shown by Argentine television playing golf and depicted by cartoonists with a golf club in his hands.
The former Beatle, Paul McCartney, is quoted today as saying his wife Linda had won her battle against breast cancer. "She's doing incredibly well," he told The Daily Mirror newspaper.