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Kidman has her day in court with snapper
Hollywood actress Nicole Kidman today told a packed Australian court that she was "really, really scared" and feared an accident when a celebrity photographer pursued her in a car chase across Sydney. Kidman was testifying in photographer Jamie Fawcett's defamation suit against a Sydney newspaper that attacked him for allegedly... [continued]
Obama accuses Clinton of dishonest tactics
The Democratic race for the White House is turning nasty with Hillary Clinton's campaign team being accused of 'swift-boating' - the term that dates back to the 2004 presidential
race when innuendo and insinuation, but no actual facts, were used to muddy the waters over John Kerry's war record as... [continued]
Acting is easy for comedian Bill Clinton 
Pinter comes out for premiere
Harold Pinter braved the rain to join actors Sir Michael Caine and Jude Law (pictured left to right, above, with designer Betty Jackson) for the London premiere of Sleuth last night. Pinter, who has suffered throat cancer in recent years, and has been ill again recently, wrote the script for... [continued]
‘Blacking up’ gag leaves Myers red-faced
Julie Myers, the Bush administration's top immigration official, is finding out the hard way that dressing up in 'blackface' is a big no-no. As director of Immigration and Customs Enforcement, she awarded top prize for costume at her Halloween office party to a staffer got up in dreadlocks and blackened... [continued]
Writers’ strike takes its toll on stars
The great Hollywood adventure of former EastEnders actress Michelle Ryan is turning sour. Ryan went to America to play the lead in a television remake of Bionic
Woman, the role first made famous in the 1970s by Lindsay Wagner. The new series opened in September to impressive ratings but by... [continued]
Hollywood preaches to empty cinemas
Berlusconi announces new alliance with political firebrand
The Italian media tycoon and former PM Silvio Berlusconi made a surprise announcement in Milan yesterday that he was dissolving Forza Italia!, the right-wing party he has led for the
past 14 years, to replace it with a new, broader movement he is calling the Party of the Italian People... [continued]
See La Rossa in action
Queen celebrates anniversary at Abbey
The Queen and the Duke of Edinburgh today celebrated – a day early - their 60th wedding anniversary with a thanksgiving service at London's Westminster Abbey. More
than 30 members of the royal family were among the 2,000-strong congregation for the service, which was presided over by Dr Rowan Williams,... [continued]
In Pictures: the Queen's days of freedom
In Brief: Leona beats Spice Girls to No 1
X Factor winner Leona Lewis has claimed the fastest-selling UK debut album of all time with Spirit, trouncing the newly reformed Spice Girls who
were left with the number two slot... Chatshow host Michael Parkinson is to bow out with some of his favourite guests gracing the... [continued]
News in Pictures: Spiderman returns
