Rocky Times for Kate Winslet
L O N D O N, Sept. 4 -- "All we wanted was to get our kids to school," cried one Catholic parent as she and her 6-year-old daughter, enduring threats and verbal abuse, attempting to make their way to school in a Protestant-dominated area of Belfast on Monday, reports The Guardian.
In a disturbing acceleration of the troubles in Northern Ireland, visibly terrified schoolgirls clung to their parents on their way to Holy Cross school as protesters abused the children, some as young as 4 years old.
Monday's incident was followed by overnight riots in several parts of the city, leading one witness to tell the paper the scene was reminiscent of the racial strife in Alabama in the 1960s.
On the Rocks
Titanic star Kate Winslet's marriage has hit the rocks, writes the Daily Mail.
Winslet and her husband, film director Jim Threapleton, have decided to separate after less than three years of marriage, the paper reports.
Lawyers for Winslet, who always had boast to the press in the past of a "fairy-tale romance", said the separation was "amicable". The couple have a 1-year old daughter Mia, who was named after the Italian word for "mine".
The couple met while filming Hideous Kinky in Morocco in 1998.
Picture Imperfect
Imagine the frustration of returning from vacation and getting your pictures developed only to find — you were given someone else's photographs.
After returning home from a vacation in Corfu, Greece, David Delvin realized the pictures he received weren't his but those of Prime Minister Tony Blair and his family holidaying in Italy, writes The Sun.
"At first I didn't recognize him as he was holding [baby son] Leo in front of his face. But in the next shot it was obvious" says Delvin.
A spokesperson for Blair said the prime minister's office was grateful.
