A British couple stranded in New York with a potential six-figure medical bill after their baby son was born 11 weeks prematurely have been “absolutely amazed” by the public’s support, a close friend has said.

Kristen Bell has given birth to a baby girl.

The 'Veronica Mars' actress Kristen Bell and her husband Dax Shepard are expecting their second child together and are looking forward to having a little sibling for their 15-month-old daughter Lincoln.

Be young, be foolish and be deliriously happy. That’s the mantra of ‘Project X’, a raucous comedy about a high school student’s birthday party which descends into chaos when hundreds of kids turn up uninvited and run amok in the teenager’s leafy North Pasadena neighbourhood.

Despite the creepy bug-eyed cover, Love Monster by Rachel Bright (HarperCollins; €8.35) is the story of an ugly monster, unloved and the butt of children’s jibes.

FOR the first time in its history, Munster Rugby will have a French international on its books after Lille native Julien Brugnaut signed on the dotted lines for the two-time Heineken Cup champions yesterday.

France have made four changes to the team which started last weekend’s defeat against Ireland for Saturday’s RBS Six Nations match against Scotland in Paris.

London Irish boosted their hopes of reaching the quarter-finals of the European Challenge Cup by posting a convincing 59-7 triumph over Dax in Pool One tonight.

FRANKFURT: the DAX 30 closed down 67.2 at 6728.9.

Connacht 15 Brive 22

Black Crowes frontman Chris Robinson is thrilled his estranged wife Kate Hudson's new relationship is allowing him more time with his son, according to reports.

WHAT should have been a five-minute cable car ride turned into a nearly 12-hour ordeal for dozens of people who had be rescued yesterday after two cars lost power over New York's East River.

What should have been a routine ride across New York’s East River became an hours-long ordeal after what US authorities described as a power failure left two cable cars carrying almost 70 people dangling hundreds of feet in the air.

Dozens of people in two cable cars are hanging hundreds of feet above New York’s East River today, hours after the system lost power because of a mechanical problem.