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BBC `looks for' DianaLONDON: The BBC has announced that it has commissioned a `definitive' documentary on the life of Princess Diana. The tw...

BBC `looks for’ Diana

LONDON: The BBC has announced that it has commissioned a `definitive’ documentary on the life of Princess Diana. The two-part series, tentatively called “Looking for Diana,” is the latest in a string of television documentaries and docudramas about the princess’s life and death. But it will be the first by the BBC, which aired the controversial November 1995 interview in which Diana admitted adultery and suggested Prince Charles was not suited to be king. The interview was widely considered to have precipitated the couple’s divorce.

Mama’s girl

NEW YORK: American film icon Jodie Foster (35) is pregnant with her first child and expects to be a single mother, according to a report in New York’s Newsday. Gossip columnist Liz Smith on Thursday quoted Foster as saying, “yes, I am pregnant. I couldn’t be happier.” But Foster said she would not discuss who the father was or her method of becoming pregnant. Foster reportedly told Smith she planned to raisethe child on her own, repeating the pattern set by her actress mother.

Threat to Clinton

SAN DIEGO: A Mexican doctor has been arrested on charges he mailed extortion letters in which he threatened to kill President Bill Clinton and former president George Bush unless people sent him money, the FBI said on Thursday. Hector Aguiniga Cortes of Tecate, Mexico, mailed letters to at least 30 people across the United States, threatening to kill the presidents unless he was sent $ 3,000, special agent Jan Caldwell said. Cortes, 47, was arrested on Wednesday night and charged with two counts of extortion.

Investigators, including a bomb squad, combed the site. (Representational)

‘Targeted attack’: Man rams car into FBI’s Pittsburgh building gate

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In a targeted attack, a man rammed his car into the FBI's Pittsburgh field office on Wednesday and then threw an American flag over the damaged gate before fleeing the scene. No FBI personnel were injured, and the suspect had previously visited the office with a nonsensical complaint. The FBI is asking for the public's help in identifying the suspect.

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