Pope’s cat love

London, Oct. 9: A 10-year-old black cat half-Persian secured his audience with Benedict XVI after howling at the Holy Father during his visit to the Oratory last month. A famous cat-lover who is said to have fed strays in Rome, the Pontiff stopped to stroke Pushkin, the Daily Telegraph reports.

Fr Anton, Pushkin’s owner, said he had received a stream of fan mail since the encounter. The cat has added the Pope to his Christmas card list.

Fat soap

London: A Swiss museum will display a bar of soap which an artist claims to have made out of fat belonging to Silvio Berlusconi, the Italian Prime Minister, the Daily Telegraph reports. Berlusconi underwent liposuction at a Swiss clinic in 2004, and a clinic employee gave the discarded fat to Swiss artist Gianni Motti.

Cast offer

London (PTI): Oscar-winner Gwyneth Paltrow was once propositioned by a movie executive while she was still a struggler in Hollywood. About her casting couch experience, the actress said the offer left her shocked.