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VIENNA (AFP) - Human rights activist Bianca Jagger's 200,000-euro (295,000-dollar) ring which she lost last month in Salzburg has been recovered, local police said Friday.

ROME (AFP) - One year after his death, a slew of concerts and programmes commemorating Luciano Pavarotti will be held across Italy and the world, starting Saturday in the tenor's hometown of Modena.

VIENNA (AFP) - Former Colombian guerrilla hostage Ingrid Betancourt was named woman of the year Friday by the World Awards Association, headed by former Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev.

VENICE, Italy (AFP) - Filmmaker Kathryn Bigelow cast her vote for US presidential hopeful Barack Obama on Thursday as she presented her gut-wrenching Iraq war movie "The Hurt Locker" at the Venice film festival.

NEW DELHI (AFP) - Tibetan spiritual leader the Dalai Lama has recovered well from a stomach illness that put him in hospital for four days and hopes to resume work at the end of the month, an aide said Thursday.

LONDON (AFP) - Britain's Queen Elizabeth II and her husband Prince Philip will make a state visit to Slovenia and Slovakia in October, Buckingham Palace said Thursday.

PERPIGNAN, France (AFP) - French war photographer Francoise Demulder, the first woman to win the prestigious World Press Photo award, has died aged 61, her friend US journalist Phyllis Sipahioglu said Thursday.

GENEVA (AFP) - Swiss jazz pianist Geo Voumard, co-founder of the Montreux Jazz Festival, died Wednesday at the age of 87, his family told the Swiss news agency ATS.

VENICE, Italy (AFP) - Filmmaker Jonathan Demme got political on Wednesday, saying the US Democrats' nomination of Barack Obama as their candidate for president reflected the multicultural "America that I love."

KABUL (AFP) - Afghanistan's President Hamid Karzai met British actor Jude Law and flimmaker Jeremy Gilley and praised their efforts to promote peace in his war-torn country, the president's office said Wednesday.

GENEVA (AFP) - Hollywood megastar George Clooney was to be the the star attraction Tuesday at a Swiss fundraising gala for US Democratic presidential hopeful Barack Obama, a report said.

ORLANDO, Florida (AFP) - World number one Tiger Woods and his wife Elin are expecting their second child to be born in late winter, which could delay the US golf superstar's return to action from a knee injury.

MEXICO CITY (AFP) - Colombian writer and Nobel laureate Gabriel Garcia Marquez hailed journalism as the best profession, in rare public comments in northern Mexico.

BRUSSELS (AFP) - The Dalai Lama, Zimbabwean opposition leader Morgan Tsvangirai and Franco-Colombian ex-hostage Ingrid Betancourt figure among the candidates for the EU parliament's 2008 Sakharov prize, the assembly said Wednesday.

LONDON (AFP) - The author of the international best-selling book The Horse Whisperer was recovering Wednesday after falling ill from eating poisonous mushrooms.

LONDON (AFP) - A man has been arrested over the theft of a camera containing photographs of Prince William and his girlfriend, Kate Middleton, taken on holiday in the Caribbean, police said Monday.

KABUL (AFP) - British actor Jude Law called Monday for all parties in Afghanistan's conflict to observe a "Peace Day" on September 21 as part of a global campaign for ceasefires and non-violence.

MUMBAI (AFP) - The Tibetan spiritual leader, the Dalai Lama, was discharged from a Mumbai hospital on Monday, four days after being admitted with stomach pain, but said he still needs plenty of rest.

LONDON (AFP) - Oscar-winner Helen Mirren admitted she loved snorting cocaine and only stopped due to the capture of Nazi war criminal Klaus Barbie, in an magazine interview out this month.

LONDON (AFP) - Amy Winehouse pulled out of the Rock en Seine festival outside Paris after falling ill at home, the troubled singer's spokesman said Saturday as the furious organisers vowed to sue.

DHARAMSHALA, India (AFP) - Tibetan exiles and supporters staged a symbolic 12-hour fast for peace in Tibet on Saturday as Buddhist spiritual leader the Dalai Lama joined in from his hospital bed.

DHARAMSHALA, India (AFP) - Exiled Tibetan spiritual leader the Dalai Lama has "no physical health problems" and is expected to be released from hospital late Sunday, a senior aide said.

LOS ANGELES (AFP) - The private investigator convicted of a Hollywood wiretapping scandal was on Friday found guilty of bugging the phones of billionaire Kirk Kerkorian's ex-wife.

SAO PAULO (AFP) - One woman in three in the world is affected by domestic violence, US movie actress Reese Witherspoon said here Thursday as she promoted a worldwide campaign against abuse of women.

MUMBAI (AFP) - Exiled Tibetan spiritual leader the Dalai Lama is in a stable condition and there is no cause for concern over his health, his aides and the private Indian hospital to which he was admitted said Friday.

MUMBAI (AFP) - Exiled Tibetan spiritual leader the Dalai Lama is in a stable condition and there is no cause for concern over his health, the private Indian hospital to which he was admitted said Friday.

MUMBAI (AFP) - Exiled Tibetan spiritual leader the Dalai Lama is in a stable condition and there is no cause for concern over his health, the private Indian hospital to which he was admitted said Friday.

MUMBAI (AFP) - Exiled Tibetan spiritual leader the Dalai Lama is in a "stable" condition and there is "no cause for concern" over his health, the private Indian hospital to where he was admitted said Friday.