A MOTORIST stopped by Bulgarian police after a minor traffic accident admitted he had drunk 20 litres of beer - and promptly passed out, local TV reported
ABBA were back on top of the British album charts today after the Swedish quartet`s Gold - Greatest Hits compilation became the oldest album ever to reach the UK number one spot
TRIBUTES have poured in from around the world today for Nobel prize-winning Russian writer Alexander Solzhenitsyn, who died aged 89 after a life devoted to exposing the brutal Soviet Gulag prison system
THE 24-year-old assistant of French rogue trader Jerome Kerviel has been charged with complicity in the multi-billion-euro scandal at Societe Generale, judicial officials said today
Hunger strike ... Burma`s opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi has not eaten for four weeks, and there are fears she will starve to death.