While other sensational actresses became celebrities, Marilyn Monroe became an icon, incomparable even in death.
Anju George, Anil Kumar and J J Sobha won gold medals as India scooped up nine medals from athletics.
The athletics event gets underway at the Afro Asian Games on Tuesday, but the starting list of foreigners is still unknown.
The Namibian was regarded as one of the great African sprinters but he never won an Olympic title in his career.
The defense in the rape cae launched an all-out effort to cast the 19-year-old accuser in the worst light possible.
The Olympic and world champion clocked the fastest women's 800 metres of the year with a blazing run of one minute 55.55 seconds at the Madrid Grand Prix.
A dozen Nobel laureates have opposed the proposed US-led war against Iraq in a letter to the editor published in the Times daily.
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