"Despite the enormous levels of security and despite our very best efforts, we now know that our security arrangements were violated."Undeterred by the court action, Hello! has put the actress on the front cover of its latest issue, published yesterday. In a saccharin interview publicising the musical Chicago, Ms Zeta Jones talks about motherhood and marriage. She also reveals, apparently without irony, that her son Dylan, aged two and a half, is a "genius". She said: "I don't mind telling you that Dylan, well, is a genius. For instance, he has what is called 'perfect pitch'."The hearing continues.. An Algerian immigrant accused of plotting to fund and promote Osama bin Laden's al-Qa'ida network has been linked scientifically to materials promoting terrorism, a court was told yesterday.

The book, found at the house in Leicester of a close associate of Mr Benmerzouga, appeared to justify killing civilians, and the use of women and children as human shields, a jury at Leicester Crown Court was told.Mr Benmerzouga, 31, who was arrested two weeks after the 11 September bombings and had been watched by British intelligence for months, also collected the credit card details of 85 people to raise money – possibly more than £100,000 – for the terrorist cause, Mark Ellison, for the prosecution, told the court. Mr Benmerzouga and another Algerian, Baghdad Meziane, 38, an asylum-seeker, deny "entering into a funding arrangement for purposes of terrorism".Fake passports and visas were found at Mr Benmerzouga's home, Mr Ellison said. In the boot of a car registered under an alias of Mr Benmerzouga, detectives found 61 videos, some featuring Bin Laden, detailing holy wars against Christians worldwide and calling on Muslims to support "the fight against the infidels".The trial continues today.. The putative north Italian nation of Padania, invented by Umberto Bossi, Italy's Minister for Reforms, is unusual among the nations of the world in its ethereality. It has a flag – a green Celtic star on a white background – but it is crowded out by the 14 regional flags of the separate "northern leagues" of which Padania is an amalgamation.

Currency and identity cards have been designed but are not in circulation.What it does have is a beauty contest, and on Saturday the new Miss Padania, flanked by Miss Sole delle Alpi ("Sun of the Alps") and Miss Camicia Verde ("Green Blouse") will be crowned in Milan, the fifth such event in Padania's non-history.Whether a serious number of people in northern Italy are even faintly interested in breaking away is highly debatable, but the threat of leading Italy's richest regions out of the Republic and into his Promised Land has made Mr Bossi, formerly a labourer, guitarist and maths tutor, one of the most powerful men in the country. So of course, Miss Padania is far more than a joke."The selection of participants in Miss Padania has criteria very different from other such contests," the organisers insist. "There is a way of being and feeling in the north, a northern mode of femininity, quite different from that of the Mediterranean." The trouble is, and it's the trouble with most things Padanian, Italy keeps on breaking through. So the literature on the event is in Italian – the only tongue by which the people of the North can speak to each other One of the sponsors is Alitalia. And so on.So to try to impart some distinctive reality, they go to extremes bordering on the parodic.