The settlement of a libel action brought by Dr Soua'd M Al Sabah, a member of the Kuwait ruling family, against the Independent newspaper was announced in the High Court yesterday. The action related to a report on 12 May that Dr Al Sabah was seeking an injunction restraining publication of a book, Thatcher's Gold, which contained a serious libel.

"Listen to the portrait of the dance of perfection: the Spandau Ballet." You can bet Robert Elms didn't enjoy seeing that clip of himself introducing an early performance by the New Romantics' house band. But then Elms, now a seasoned novelist and broadcaster, wouldn't have been the only one to be squirming at some of the footage aired during the first part of Peter York's Eighties (Sat BBC2). Martin Kemp's hair, Steve Strange's trousers, the awful lemon-coloured bow Teresa Gorman insisted on wearing back then with her chocolate-and-lime tartan two-piece; looking at them again, you wonder why we didn't spend the entire decade laughing.

THE POWERFUL London-based Kuwait Investment Office (KIO) has been thrown into turmoil by the sudden resignation of its Kuwaiti chief at a time when it faces growing allegations about political payments made during the Gulf War.

Spanish inquisition: Financiers accused of trying to force king's abdication to evade KIO fraud trial

THE London-based Kuwait Investment Office (KIO) has won the right to bring a $500m (pounds 320m) civil suit in the UK against former managers over the $5bn collapse of its Grupo Torras Spanish investment empire three years ago.

Kuwaiti sentenced for murdering maid

Kuwait City (AFP) - The children's favourites, Tom and Jerry, and Popeye, are under attack from Islamists who have come up with their own Islamic version to combat the "devilish" influence of such cartoon capers.

Michael Sheridan, Diplomatic Editor, finds that five years after the start of the Gulf war the emirate's thoughts are dominated by oil prices and Baghdad

Missing Persons No.19 Norman Schwarzkopf

BY MICHAEL SHERIDAN

It is little short of a miracle that most of a Kuwaiti sheikh's unique collection of Islamic art escaped the Iraqi invasion. A selection of his ceramics, calligraphy and jewels is now on show in Cambridge

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From Ms Rosemary Telford

Re B (adoption: setting aside). Court of Appeal (Sir Thomas Bingham, Master of the Rolls, Lord Justice Simon Brown and Lord Justice Swinton Thomas). 17 March 1995