Obama's lips are stitched

US President Barack Obama received 12 stitches on his upper lip after he was accidentally elbowed in the face by one of his fellow players during a basketball match with friends and family, the White House has revealed.

"After being inadvertently hit with an opposing player's elbow in the lip while playing basketball with friends and family, the President received 12 stitches administered by the White House Medical Unit," White House press secretary Robert Gibbs said on Friady evening.

The medical unit that treated Obama used a smaller filament than typically used, which increases the number of stitches but makes a tighter stitch and results in a smaller scar, Gibbs said, adding the President was given local anesthesia while receiving the stitches.

The elbow to Obama's lip "happened in the fifth of five games they played."

The White House said Obama was injured by Rey Decerega, Director of Programmes for Congressional Hispanic Caucus Institute. 
 
 
Becker admits to having a facelift

'I've had a facelift!' Tennis legend Boris Becker's shock confession on how he maintains his fresh-faced look. (GETTY IMAGES)

In a shocking confession, Tennis legend Boris Becker, 43, admitted having had a facelift.

The former Wimbledon champion stunned fans, while being interviewed by Daybreak's sports presenter Dan Lobb in London's O2 Arena and revealed: 'It's a dark arena here so you don't see my wrinkles. I also had a facelift recently and I coloured my hair, so...

'I turned 43 this week, and winning Wimbledon was 25 years ago, and I do feel very much like I'm 43 right now.'

Becker said he had decided to go under the surgeon's knife in an attempt to maintain his fresh-faced look.
 
 
 
Duchess of debt is a royal pain

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Sarah Ferguson or Fergie as the Duchess of York is better known as,  has given an ultimatum to her creditors... accept a quarter of what she owes you or risk getting nothing, reports Daily Mail.

Debts of almost £2 million remained even after Prince Andrew initially bailed her out with £1.5 million of his own money earlier this year.

Fergie has been working hard on the television series, in which she will examine her own battles with those who have been closest to her, with her weight and, of course, with money, claims the newspaper.
 
 

Will and Kate's romance penned

Did you know? William's nickname for Kate is Babykins, while she calls him Big Willie. (AP)

First came the royal engagement. Now 10 days later the first book.

William and Kate: A Royal Love Story, by The Sun newspaper's royal reporter James Clench was published yesterday in Britain, the first in a slew of new titles about the relationship between Prince William and fiancee Kate Middleton.

Published by Harper Collins and The Sun both owned by Rupert Murdoch the book is scattered with photos by Arthur Edwards, the paper's long-serving royal photographer.

It is one of several books on the royal romance in the works ahead of the April 29 wedding at Westminster Abbey.

They include one by celebrity journalist Andrew Morton, whose 1992 book Diana: Her True Story rocked the royal family and punctured the image of Princess Diana's fairy-tale romance with Prince Charles with its details of bulimia, depression and infidelity.

William and Kate: A Royal Love Story due to be published in the US on December 17 is a more reverent affair. It charts the romance between "the boy who would one day be king" and "the middle-class girl who had harbored a crush on him since her school days."

The book traces "the greatest love story of the century" from the couple's first meeting at a university in Scotland.

It claims that William's nickname for Kate was Babykins, while she called him Big Willie.

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