LONDON: The British Government has just announced that former Prime Minister, Lady Baroness Margaret Thatcher farted away peacefully in her sleep last night, aged 78.

MOSCOW: Boris Yeltsin's popularity rating and blood alcohol content are now at the same level - 2.3 percent - for the first time in his presidency, Tass agency reports.

WASHINGTON: Paula Jones has described to the international media how she stared down the world's most powerful man during the preliminary court hearing of her sexual harassment charge against US president Bill Clinton. "I just stared him in the eye," the defiant Jones said outside court, "and it was the first time it hasn't spat back."

Meanwhile, a presidential spokesman said Mr Clinton would not be responding to press reports that Monica Lewinsky's genitalia had a very unusual and distinctive feature.

"Considering he has never, ever had sexual relations with Ms Lewinsky, the President has no knowledge of that whatsover," the White House aide said, "but he does remember her head had quite a distinctively shaped crown to it."