In Brief: Posh Spice strips for charity

Victoria Beckham is to pose naked for a range of charity T-shirts. She agreed to be the face of Marc Jacobs for his new Spring/Summer 2008 collection, then surprised the designer by asking if she could strip off... Sir Ranulph Fiennes has announced plans to climb Mount Everest next year at the age of 63. His last attempt in 2005 failed when he had a severe angina attack on the world's highest peak... Conrad Black, interviewed on Radio 4's Today programme, said that if and when he finishes his expected jail term, he might choose finance for his next career. "This is not a difficult area to make money in," he said. "Newspaper publishing is a difficult area to make money in"... Former Midnight Oil singer Peter Garrett has been made Environment Minister in PM Kevin Rudd's new Labor government in Australia... Actor Derek Jacobi wants to follow in the footsteps of fellow knight Ian McKellen and appear in Coronation Street... Former Smiths singer Morrissey is to sue music paper NME claiming that he has been libelled over anti-immigrant remarks he was quoted as making... Desperate to match the pulling power of Oprah Winfrey, who volunteered to campaign for Barack Obama in the Democratic run for the presidency, Hillary Clinton has added another crooner to her list of celeb supporters. After the endorsement by Barbra Streisand, she's now got Tony Bennett on board for a 'special performance'... ·