In brief: rare Picasso found

LAST UPDATED AT 10:54 ON Mon 31 Mar 2008

A rare early watercolour by Pablo Picasso, depicting the artist and one of  his first lovers, has been discovered in a West Country house... Dith Pran,  the Cambodian photojournalist whose life story under the brutal Khmer Rouge regime was recreated in the film The Killing Fields, has died in New  Jersey from pancreatic cancer... The Queen has reportedly cancelled a  diamond wedding anniversary party at London's Ritz Hotel because it might  have seemed inappropriate given the economic climate... Fashion designer  Vivienne Westwood, the novelist John Le Carre, the actor Colin Firth and the professor of philosophy A C Grayling are among a group of leading figures who have written to Gordon Brown to oppose the extension of detention of terrorist suspects without charge to 42 days... ·