The Spice Girls have returned to the recording studio, almost a year after they first burst on to the music scene. They are thought to be recording the soundtrack for their new movie.
Since their debut Wannabe was released last year, they have sold 14.5 million copies of their first album, 16.5 million singles and surpassed the Beatles by having a debut album enter the US charts at number one.
The Rolling Stones have announced details of a world tour, promising appearances in intimate clubs as well as stadiums holding tens of thousands of fans.
Band members disclosed details of their Bridges to Babylon tour under the shadow of New York City's Brooklyn Bridge.
Gregory Peck said yesterday that large corporations are destroying the cinema as an art form.
"The technology is terrific and the effects are terrific, but there's something missing in the human element - I think it's rather tiresome," he said.
Peck, one of the few remaining stars from Hollywood's golden era, is in Australia to film a cameo role for a television mini-series of the classic film he starred in, Moby Dick.
Actor Anthony Quinn (82) reached a divorce settlement with his wife, Iolanda (62), yesterday after the couple's son testified in court that Quinn beat his mother.
"He'd say `Shut up'. Then he'd throw something - dishes, breakable glasses - at her," Danny Quinn (33) said.
Caroline Aherne - television's Mrs Merton - told OK! magazine her new love is a young actor, "very good looking and very funny" and also "posh".
She said: "I used to prefer rough and ready men, but now I like posh men - they've got better manners and they look after you."