KIEV: The beauty queens Misses Wales, England, and Ireland are among 10 hopefuls reported to have quit the Miss Europe in Ukraine, apparently unhappy with living conditions in a former Communist Party resort.
Miss Wales, Kathy Peyton, and Miss England, Emma Scott, said they were served stale bread and did not have their sheets changed for a week. Organisers said the contest would still go ahead.
Blasts kill visitor
HAVANA: An Italian-Canadian man was killed when explosions, believed to have been caused by bombs, shook the lobbies of three seaside hotels in Havana, Cuba. The explosions at the Copacabana, Chateau, and Triton hotels appeared the work of dissidents opposed to Cuba's growing tourism industry.
For want of a son
JEDDAH: A man enraged because his wife gave birth to a daughter grabbed the baby and threw her to the ground, killing her instantly. The man already had six daughters and no sons, a newspaper reported.
Ferry collision
LAGOS: More than 100 people are feared dead in a collision between a ferry and a barge in Nigeria near the site of a similar accident last month.
Arsonist fireman
DUSSELDORF: A German fireman has admitted lighting fires because he was bored. He was charged with arson for causing millions of pounds' worth of damage in 70 fires over the last three years.
Van Gogh stolen
BRUSSELS: A gang of robbers have stolen Antwerp Fine Arts Museum's The Potato Picker, by Vincent Van Gogh. The sketch is valued at $800,000.
Woman freed
NICOSIA: Cypriot President Glafcos Clerides has ordered the release of a woman jailed for four months for falsely claiming she had been raped. Annette Mangan, 22, from Dublin, served three weeks of her sentence.
Maori convicted
WELLINGTON: Maori activist Benjamin Peri Nathan was convicted of a sledgehammer attack on yachting's America's Cup yesterday and will be sentenced in a week's time.
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