Good vibes

UNESCO made Mstislav Rostropovich, the cellist and conductor, one of its goodwill ambassadors and urged him to work for peace, human rights, justice and literacy. Rostropovich, 70, said he would keep working "to make everyone happy". Rostropovich, had to leave the Soviet Union in 1974, and lived in exile in the US until his rehabilitation in 1990 by then-president Mikhail Gorbachev.

- Reuters, Paris