1.   A flamboyant Italian countess has vanished from her hillside villa in a posh Mediterranean resort wearing nothing but her robe and slippers, police said Tuesday.

2.   Buyoya received a small group of journalists on the veranda of his hillside villa overlooking Bujumbura, Lake Tanganyika and the mountains of eastern Zaire.

3.   Elton John and Ringo Starr took to the stage at the annual star-studded AmFAR fundraiser to fight AIDS, hosted by Sharon Stone at a swanky hillside villa.

4.   In the affluent ethnic Albanian neighborhood of Velani, the doors of hillside villas stood wide open.