JOHNNY SIMPSON, a rugged, athletic prop in the late 1940s All Blacks rugby sides, has died in Wellington. He was 88.

Whitney Houston and her husband Bobby Brown are set to be the subject of a new tell-all book, which promises to expose all aspects of their lives.

A judge has dismissed a €82.4m breach of contract lawsuit filed against Whitney Houston by an entertainment company that her late father had founded.

Singer Whitney Houston is being sued for $100m (€101.2m) by her 81-year-old father’s entertainment company for breach of contract.