In Brief: Miss Belgium has language problem

Beauty queen Alizee Poulicek, who has just been crowned Miss Belgium, is embroiled in a political row after it emerged she speaks no Dutch, the language of half the population of the divided low-countries state... Harry Potter star Daniel Radcliffe has dipped into his previously-untouched £25m earnings to buy a $2.2m New York apartment... Prince Charles has been accused of "commercial treason" after he granted a royal warrant to a Spanish ceramics firm, at the expense of a British competitor... John Smeaton, the baggage handler from Glasgow Airport who tackled a suspected terrorist in June, is to be given the Queen's Gallantry Medal... Veteran Cuban leader Fidel Castro, suffering from illness, has said he may formally renounce power... ·