MiG-25
Romano Prodi, 67, the ex-European Commission president, is once again Italy’s PM, defeating incumbent Silvio Berlusconi.
The Da Vinci Code author, Dan Brown, wins a lawsuit over claims that he lifted the idea from The Holy Blood and the Holy Grail.
Bernardo ‘Tractor’ Provenzano, Sicilian Mafia’s ‘boss of bosses’, on the run for 42 years, is finally arrested.
Crooner and songwriter Gene Pitney, 65, who topped the ’60s charts with hits like 24 Hours from Tulsa, Liberty Valance etc, dies.
Casablanca tops the list for Best Screenplay in a Writers’ Guild of America poll. The Godfather, Chinatown followed.
