From NY Daily News
The revived Us Weekly will get new competition on its flank while fighting the giant People for more celeb-loving readers.
InTouch Weekly, set to launch late next month, is described by sources as a softer version of Us that also looks like the Wenner Media title.
InTouch executive editor Steve LeGrice confirmed the focus: "It'll be a positive and upbeat. We're not out to dig dirt."
Bauer Publishing USA, whose First for Women and Woman's World sell more than 1 million copies each on newsstands, plans million-plus printings of InTouch, at $1.99 a copy - a buck cheaper than Us and $1.30 less than People.
Joining the startup are Nadia Cohen, a show-biz writer with London's Daily Mail, and Dan Wakeford, news editor of the popular British celeb mag Heat. Richard Spencer, who ran Bauer's recently folded Soap Opera Update, is editor in chief.
InTouch will target women in their 20s and 30s with Hollywood news and brief, celeb-pegged articles about health, beauty and such.

The Miss World Contest official site has published a statement released by the Nigerian President trying to deflate the controversy surrounding the case of Amina Lawal, a Nigerian woman who has been sentenced to death by stoning for adultery.
The Miss World contest 2002 is due to be held at the Abuja National Stadium on November 30 - Miss Nigeria, Agbani Darego, was crowned Miss World last year. However, representatives from Belgium, France (in the picture, above), Denmark, Norway, the Ivory Coast and Kenya have confirmed that they will not be taking part because of the controversy. The European Union has also called for a boycott.
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---> Sylvie Tellier, Miss France 2002, will boycott the World Contest (7 comments)
---> Miss Italia is plain, Italians complain
---> The two Miss Carolinas
---> Miss Switzerland's hot pictorial