Fourteen-year-old Briton Michael Perham may have just become the youngest person ever to sail across the Atlantic single-handed, but an American child may be the world's youngest professional artist, said The Sun.
Phoenix Perego's artwork was formally displayed at a Florida gallery last year and she has since sold two pieces at live auction - when she was just two years and 32 days old.
The father of the baby boy David Banda, provisionally adopted by pop star Madonna, has received a 400 cheque from a sympathetic Scottish nanny. The Scotsman reported that Christine Webster, from Edinburgh, sent the money to Yohane Banda of Malawi to use for a flight to visit his son if he wishes.
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