SIR TERENCE CONRAN (68) was yesterday ordered to pay his ex-wife Lady Caroline (58) a Pounds 10.5 million divorce settlement. The judge said Lady Caroline should receive a pay-out of Pounds 6.2 million - as well as a Pounds 1.1 million home in Belgravia, an Pounds 800,000 home in Dorset, jewellery, cars and other items.
Former Zairean dictator Mobutu Sese Seko has signed an agreement in Morocco to sell his Fond'Roy chateau in Brussels. The Pounds 7.4 million property includes the chateau, furniture and five-hectare grounds.
Jose' Carreras, suffering from a viral infection of the vocal cords, has been forced to cancel a concert tomorrow in Cottbus, his third cancellation in Germany. The infection also forced him to cancel concerts in Cologne and Ludwigsburg.
Catherine Megret, the far right mayor of Vitrolles in southern France, has fired the director of a municipal movie theatre for refusing to take a series of short films about homosexuality off the schedule. The dismissal was the latest episode in a culture war being waged by the National Front in the towns it controls.
A team searching for the remains of Ernesto "Che" Guevara near the town of Villagrande in the jungle high-lands of Bolivia has found bones that "very probably" are those of the legendary revolutionary.
Searchers have found half a dozen skeletons and among them a bone with apparent traces of formaldehyde. Guevara was captured by Bolivian troops in October 1967 and executed in a village schoolhouse.
British Cabinet Minister Clare Short yesterday attacked the "grossly unfair" criticism of Princess Diana, for her crusade against landmines. The Minister said: "How dare anyone criticise Diana for taking up this heartrending cause."
Film director Anthony Minghella, whose movie The English Patient won nine Oscars, is to bring a first novel by an American cowboy to the screen. Minghella will direct and write the screenplay of Cold Mountain, by rancher Charles Frazier.
Australian critics have panned the new Hollywood film featuring Mr Bean, played by Rowan Atkinson. "What was on television a character as silently hapless and uniquely funny as Buster Keaton has been repainted with broad, sentimental, America-friendly brushstrokes," said film writer Robert Drewe in the Sydney Morning Herald.