In Brief: Brad Pitt moves to Berlin

Brad Pitt, along with his partner Angelina Jolie and their six children, has moved to Berlin for three months while he makes the new Quentin Tarantino movie Inglorious Bastards, in which he plays the leader of a band of Jewish-American soldiers sent behind enemy lines in World War Two to hunt down and kill high-ranking Nazis. Team Brangelina will not be stinting on home comforts: their temporary home is a rambling chateau on Wannsee lake in a leafy Berlin suburb, and if they get bored with that they can always crash at the massive apartment they brought two years ago in the city centre. As for transport, Pitt reportedly intends to commute to the nearby film set by helicopter.........Sir Paul McCartney's concert in Tel Aviv this evening is turning into a nightmare for the former Beatle. Having received death threats from extremist Muslims and the threat of disruption from right-wing Israeli groups, ‘Macca’ has recruited a 5,000-strong army of security guards at a cost of £1.5m to protect him and his entourage ……….Steve Tyler, craggy-faced frontman of US rock band Aerosmith, has brought a legal action against a group of unknown bloggers who he claims impersonated him on the Web, writing about the death of his mother and other "intimate details" from his life……….David Blaine has been ridiculed for taking breaks during his latest stunt, in which he was suspended upside down for 60 hours in New York's Central Park. Before embarking on the project, he had said he would drink through a straw and relieve himself through a catheter, nut onlookers claim they saw Blaine standing upright, drinking water and urinating during frequent breaks. Blaine said: "I'm not going to pee all over myself to satisfy those people" ........... O J Simpson, on trial for armed robbery in Las Vegas, has had the most basic part of his defence – that he did not know his co-defendants were carrying guns – challenged. One of them claimed in court on Wednesday that Simpson asked the gang to bring guns to the robbery. If found guilty, the former American football star faces a life sentence………… Actress Nicole Kidman, who recently gave birth to her first child, has revealed that she became pregnant after swimming in "fertility waters" in her native Australia………….