THE Dalai Lama has called on the international community to press Beijing to reach a negotiated settlement with Tibet.
"The Chinese government has introduced many restrictions on monastic institutions," he told the European Parliament, describing this as "intentional" genocide.
He said that "unintentional" cultural genocide was sparked by the "massive influx of Chinese peoples, particularly, into the capital Lhasa . . ."
Twenty years after his death, French writer, adventurer and culture minister Andre Malraux has given up smoking. A portrait on a new commemorative stamp copies a famous 1935 photograph of Malraox with hair dishevelled - except the cigarette in the corner of his mouth has gone.
A Paris court will role next week on Jacques and Nicolas Charrier's request for cots to be made in Brigitte Bardot's autobiography, which brands Jacques Charrier, who was married to Bardot from 1959 to 1963, as "a vulgar, dictatorial and uncontrolled macho, a gigolo, alcoholic and despicable".
Bruce Matthews, former managing director of News International, publishers of the Times, Sunday Times, the Sun and the News of the World, has died in hospital. Matthews (71), who was at the forefront of the revolution which ended Fleet Street's struggles with the print onions, had been ill for some time.
Creditors of Swedish tennis legend Bjorn Borg (40) have filed a suit to declare him personally bankrupt in a bid to reclaim the $1.92 million he owes them. The five times Wimbledon champion has long claimed he is penniless after being the victim of a series of bad business deals.
Joe Klein, the political columnist who was unmasked as Anonymous, the author of the best selling novel Primary Colours will leave Newsweek magazine and join the New Yorker in December to write that magazine's "Letter From Washington". The New Yorker said Klein will replace Michael Kelly who is leaving to become editor of the New Republic.