Amy Winehouse will tour Brazil next year.

NORTH Korea’s ruling Communist Party members gathered in Pyongyang yesterday ahead of their largest political conference in 30 years, amid predictions that leader Kim Jong Il would use the meeting to give a key ruling party position to one of his sons.

POLITICAL and other spin doctors know how to manage a crisis. The critical factor is to hang on. They believe virtually all news media cycles are “nine-day wonders”.