Celebrity photographer Francois-Marie Banier has been cut out of the will of L'Oreal heiress Liliane Bettencourt, her lawyer said Saturday. Bettencourt's gifts to Banier led to a long-running legal spat with her daughter which developed into a political scandal.
 

The change was made in mid-July, Lawyer Georges Kiejman said, and no-one else had been added to the will in his place.

Bettencourt, who is France's richest woman, had understood that "enough was enough", said Kiejman. Banier  has received gifts worth nearly a billion euros from the 87-year-old over the years, sparking accusations from her daughter that he has taken advantage of her.

A couple out picking mushrooms in the woods in western Sweden made a macabre find on Thursday evening after spotting the head of a live kitten peering out from the ground behind a tree stump.
The pair immediately began digging and quickly found three distressed and exhausted kittens buried in a woodland area near Hindås, 34 kilometres east of Gothenburg, local newspaper Borås Tidning reports.

Shocked by the find, the couple contacted Tina Karlsson, who runs a local shelter for abandoned cats. Karlsson said one of the four week old kittens -- two females and one male -- had somehow managed to clamber out of the shallow grave and get its head above ground.

"If I got hold of whoever did this I don't know what I'd do," she told Borås Tidning