In brief: Spice Girl pregnant

Melanie Chisholm (pictured), aka ‘Sporty Spice’, is expecting her first child. The 34-year-old singer is the final member of the Spice Girls to become a mother............Former glam-rocker and convicted sex-offender Gary Glitter (real name Paul Gadd) finally returned to Britain today after serving three years in Thu Doc prison, Vietnam for abusing two girls aged 10 and 11. He was met at Heathrow by British police who escorted him to a police station to sign the sex offenders register............Ricky Gervais, the writer of The Office, has paid $1.66 million for a one-bedroom apartment in New York............Days before the Democratic Party convention opens in Denver – in the absence of the disgraced John Edwards, who turned out to be having an affair while his wife was dying of cancer – video footage has been unearthed of his mistress, Rielle Hunter. It shows the videographer taking part in a TV game show called Lingo, back in 2002............The Queen has slipped to 12th place in the Forbes ranking of the world's richest rulers. With an estimated fortune of £349 million, she is but a pauper in comparison to the man who tops the list, King Bhumibol Adulyade of Thailand, who is said to be worth £18.79 billion......