In brief: Warhol’s Mao goes on display - with record price-tag

A 14-foot painting by Andy Warhol (pictured, right) of Chairman Mao (left) has gone on display at the Hong Kong Convention and Exhibition Centre with an asking price of $120m - $50m more than the artist’s auction record… While the Duke of Edinburgh, like the Queen, is said to have been appalled by Peter Phillips’s £500,000 wedding deal with Hello!, this has not stopped him allowing Country Life to photograph the royal family's Norfolk residence, Sandringham. Prince Phillip offered the magazine a guided tour of the house and revealed a weighing machine in the hall, which is used to weigh visitors on arrival and before they leave… British film-maker Peter Greenaway's attempts to project controversial images, including genitalia, onto Leonardo da Vinci's The Last Supper have been thwarted by the mayor of Milan, who claims it might damage the painting… In an attempt to show a more human side to her husband, John McCain, contesting the White House this year for the Republicans, Cindy McCain has granted an interview and photo-shoot to American Vogue. Staged at one their two beach-side homes in California, she reveals details of her marital life, fashion and beauty regimes, her struggle with an addiction to painkillers and her love of "size-zero Lucky Brand jeans"...A new James Bond book, entitled Devil May Care by Sebastian Faulks, is launched today to mark Ian the 100th anniversary of the birth of 007’s creator Ian Fleming. So far all that is known is that the adventure takes place in 1967, during the Cold War, and takes 007 to Paris, London and the Middle East... ·