Overseas hotels often used by the charity included the 4-star Fitzpatrick Hotel in New York, The Royal Automobile Club in London, The Westin in Cleveland and the 5-star Shangri-La and Grand Hyatt in Singapore.

A shopaholic Saudi princess who fled a luxury hotel in Paris in the middle of the night to dodge a €5.7m hotel bill is to have her assets in France seized.

Angelina Jolie is to star alongside British actor Ray Winstone in a new Hollywood adaptation of Beowulf, the Old English epic poem.

A man was undergoing micro surgery today after his hand was chopped off following an argument in a restaurant about the size of his meal.