In brief: Carla Bruni gives first interview

Carla Bruni, in her first interview as France's first lady, told L'Express magazine that it was love at first sight when she met Nicolas Sarkozy... Film director Mike Leigh (pictured), a winner of the Cannes Palme D'Or and Venice's Golden Lion, could become the only living director to take the hat-trick of Europe's main film prizes after his new film, Happy-Go-Lucky, wowed critics at the Berlin film festival... Classical virtuoso David Garrett - dubbed the David Beckham of the violin - has been left without a fiddle for a St Valentine's Day concert after he tripped and fell on his 300-year-old Stradivarius at a Barbican concert... Keira Knightley, who failed to win at the Baftas and Golden Globes for her role in Atonement, has finally scooped a best actress prize, in the Elle Style Awards... Heather Mills's father Mark has predicted she will leave Britain after her divorce from Sir Paul McCartney... Directors Joel and Ethan Coen, up for an Oscar for their adaptation of Cormac McCarthy's novel No Country for Old Men, are to take another Pulitzer-winning author's story to the big screen - Michael Chabon's Alaskan murder mystery, The Yiddish Policemen's Union...