In brief: Carla Bruni to play on BBC music show

Carla Bruni is to make her debut TV appearance in Britain next month. The wife of the French president will perform two songs from her recently released album Comme Si De Rien N’Etait on BBC 2’s Later... With Jools Holland...Hello! magazine has beaten its rival OK! to secure exclusive rights to the first photos of Angelina Jolie and Brad Pitt's newborn twins, apparently paying £5.5m for the privilege. The couple are expected to donate the fee to charity...A report that the actress Elizabeth Taylor, 76, was on a life-support machine in hospital following congestive heart failure is apparently wide of the mark - her spokesman says: "The rumours about her health are dramatic, overstated and untrue. Her hospital visit was precautionary. She will be returning home shortly"... A collection of fairytales penned by Harry Potter author JK Rowling is to be published to raise money for a children's charity. The Tales of Beedle the Bard, which the author first mentioned in the Potter book The Deathly Hallows, will go on sale on December 4. A copy of the book handwritten by JK (one of seven) was sold at auction for £1.95m last year...Jerry Lewis, the veteran American comic, was arrested by police on Wednesday after attempting to board a flight with a gun in his hand luggage. The 82-year-old, who was part of a double act with Dean Martin in the 1950s, was stopped at Las Vegas McCarran International Airport when staff spotted the .22 calibre handgun during a routine baggage screening… Another comic, Michael Barrymore, is in for a hard time this evening when he appears in a play about Spike Milligan at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival. Terry Lubbock, the father Stuart Lubbock, who died in the comedian’s swimming pool in 2001, will stage a one-man protest ahead of an Independent Police Complaints Commission report into the incident...