Former UN chief collapses

FORMER UN Secretary-General Boutros Boutros-Ghali spent the weekend in hospital after collapsing at a conference in Monaco on Saturday.

Mr Boutros-Ghali, 82, was secretary-general between 1992 and 1996.

“He was about to sit down at the lunch table when he suddenly collapsed,” said Claude de Kemoularia, who co-chairs with Mr Boutros-Ghali the Monaco Club, a political studies institute that was holding its annual meeting.