THE HAGUE - MIEP Gies, who helped hide Anne Frank and her family for two years in Nazi-occupied Amsterdam in the 1940s, turns 100 on Sunday.

DUBLIN - IRISH playwright Hugh Leonard, whose work notably won plaudits on Broadway, has died aged 82, the government said on Thursday.

NEW YORK - THE world knows a lot more about Israeli-born Bar Refaeli today than it did yesterday, including where her tiny tan line falls.

Sports Illustrated Swimsuit unveiled on Tuesday 23-year-old Refaeli as a first-time cover girl, wearing a string bikini by Missoni - and the strings on the bikini bottom are being tugged south.