Avant-garde Spanish painter and sculptor Antoni Tapies, one of the biggest names in European contemporary art, died in Barcelona on Monday aged 88, his art foundation said.

John F. Kennedy carried on an 18-month-long affair with a teenaged White House intern, according to a new book by the woman who claims to have been the late US president's lover.

Joint Nobel Peace Prize winner Leymah Gbowee on Monday launched a peace foundation in her country Liberia aimed at lifting young girls out of social squalor and giving them life skills.

SAN ANTONIO (Reuters) - Grammy-winning country singer Randy Travis was arrested and charged with public drunkenness on Monday in Sanger, Texas after police found him sitting in his truck, apparently intoxicated, in front of a church. Sanger Police Chief Curtis Amyx said an officer stopped at the church and noticed the smell of alcohol on Travis and saw an open bottle of wine. The officer said Travis' speech was slurred. Travis was charged with public intoxication and was released after a couple of hours in jail, Amyx said. ...

Google Doodle, which highlights anniversaries on the Google search engine, Monday showcased Francois Truffaut, the late French "new wave" film-maker who would have turned 80 on Monday.

PARIS (Reuters) - Chanel star designer Karl Lagerfeld is already bored with the French presidential election and believes the country would be better-run if its leaders took inspiration from successful businesses like French luxury goods firm LVMH. Taking over the Paris newsroom of free daily Metro for the day as its guest editor, the snow white-haired designer offered up opinions on topics ranging from his dislike of cinemas to suicide and having sheep trim the lawns. ...

PARIS/BERLIN (Reuters) - Lamborghini, the maker of low-slung supercars once advertised as "closer to the road," is planning a new model that will be further from the tarmac than ever: an SUV. The Italian brand, owned by Volkswagen , aims to announce the vehicle at April's Beijing auto show for a 2016 launch, according to two people with knowledge of the strategy. At the risk of alienating purist fans of its 313,000 euro (261,956.11 pound) Aventador carbon-fibre sports car, Lamborghini hopes to repeat the Porsche Cayenne's success in the fast-growing market for luxury four-by-fours. ...

Queen Elizabeth II renewed her vow to serve on Monday as she made a deliberately low-key start to five months of diamond jubilee celebrations marking her 60 years on the throne.

Asia's richest woman, Australian mining magnate Gina Rinehart, threatened to axe her children's ransom insurance as a bitter legal dispute raged over a family trust, according to reports.

Britain's Prince William has begun his duties as a search and rescue pilot in the Falkland Islands, the Ministry of Defence (MoD) said Saturday, a deployment which has infuriated Argentina.