MOSCOW: The health of former Russian President Boris Yeltsin has improved dramatically now that he has to pay for his own vodka.

BRUSSELS: The peoples of the world had made a terrible, terrible mistake in celebrating the beginning of the new millennium a full 12 months earlier than the real changeover at midnight, December 31, 2000, the International Fireworks Manufacturers Union now believes.

NEW YORK: The maximum two-term rule in United States presidental politics would rob the US of one of the most powerful, charismatic and effective leaders the world has ever known, one of Bill Clinton's mistresses told a deserted Manhattan bar late last night.

WASHINGTON: Republican father figure Bob Dole has not ruled out running for president in 1996.