A stolen sketch by Dutch master Rembrandt has been found at a California church, about 20 miles from the luxury hotel lobby it was snatched from over the weekend, authorities have said.

A DRAWING by Rembrandt, valued at $250,000 (€173,000), was stolen from a hotel in southern California in what investigators said was a well-planned heist.

A French fishing vessel was steaming across the southern Indian Ocean today to reach an American teenager stranded after the mast on her yacht broke, ending her round-the-world record bid.

Actress Tara Reid has dismissed reports she was hospitalised as a result of alcohol abuse earlier this month.

Britney Spears is dating 25-year-old male model and actor Isaac Cohen, according to media reports in the US.

Nearly half of school students in the United States have easy access to guns and more than one in five boys have taken a weapon to school in the last year, according to a survey today.