‘Di wished middle class life’

Diana dreamed about leading a ‘middle-class life’ by marrying heart surgeon Hasnat Khan,Diana’s confidante mrs Flecha da Lima told the inquest into her death on Tuesday, reports UNI from London.

She also said she did not believe the princess’s relationship with Dodi Fayed in the summer of 1997 was particularly serious.

Santa’s got mail

Santa Claus — also known as Father Christmas, Saint Nicholas and Ded Moroz in Russia, according to the United Nations Universal Post Union (UPU), gets millions of mails every year, reports PTI from New York.

Postal operations in at least 20 countries employ special elves to handle — and respond to the huge volume of mail, often addressed simply “To Santa, North Pole,” and peaking every December. In some countries Santa even answers his own emails.

Magna Carta at $ 21.3 mn

One of only 17 existing copies of the ‘Magna Carta’, the iconic 800-year-old English royal manuscript setting out the rights of man, sold at auction at Sotheby’s for USD 21.3 million, reports AFP from New York.

The manuscript was picked up by a telephone bidder on Tuesday.

Worst Xmas joke unveiled

What is Santa’s favourite pizza? One that is deep pan, crisp and even. That was picked on Wednesday as Britain's worst Christmas cracker joke in a survey of readers of Nuts magazine,  reports Reuters from London.

But it was a tough struggle picking the corniest gag unveiled in Christmas crackers along with paper hats and useless gifts.

Britney’s sister pregnant

Britney Spears’ 16-year-old sister, who stars as a schoolgirl in Nickelodeon’s popular TV show “Zoey 101,” is pregnant, reports Reuters from Los Angeles.

A high school student who lives in Louisiana, Jamie Lynn Spears reportedly met the father, Casey Aldridge, the son of a Tennessee Papermill worker, at a church. Jamie Lynn Spears’ personal publicist was not available for comment.