The first of some 29,000 rubber ducks that have been circling the world's oceans for 15 years are expected to wash up on a beach in England sometime soon. The toys fell overboard from a cargo ship bound for Seattle from China in 1992, according to the BBC.

Paul Burrell, Britain's late Princess Diana's former butler, is set to launch a range of bath products. The former royal servant - who Diana once famously described as "her rock" - is reportedly planning to create a line of soaps and bubble bath. A source told Britain's Daily Express newspaper: "The word is, he'll soon be putting his name to a range of bubble baths and soaps.

In a bid to protest the decline in the number of users opting for print reading, a used-books store owner in mid-town Kansas City, Missouri, is planning to stage a monthly book burning bonfire. Tom Wayne of Prospero's Books made several attempts to give away thousands of books lying in his warehouse, but after even libraries and thrift shops showed their unwillingness to accept them he decided them to put on fire. "This is the funeral pyre for thought in America today," AP quoted Wayne as saying to the spectators as he staged the first book bonfire outside his bookstore on Sunday.

Britain's Prince Richard, who was believed to have been murdered in the 15th century, may have lived to become a bricklayer, a university lecturer claims. When Edward IV died in 1483 his two sons Edward V and Richard were locked in the Tower of London and never seen again, amid reports that their uncle Richard III wanted them removed so he could claim the throne. Two skeletons were discovered hidden in the tower almost 200 years later, but tests have never been able to ascertain whether they are the remains of the lost princes.

Postcards featuring Britain's late Princess Diana have been banned from royal palace shops. Buckingham Palace and other royal residences have stopped the sale of postcards bearing Diana's image in line with their rule dictating that only cards featuring current members of the royal family should be sold. The move comes despite predictions that the postcards of Diana - who was killed in a tragic Paris car crash on August 31, 1997 - would be hugely popular as the country approaches the 10th anniversary of her death.