Elizabeth Taylor is still in hospital at Los Angeles’ Cedars-Sinai Medical Centre, her spokeswoman said.

Elizabeth Taylor’s doctors continue to be encouraged by her progress as she remains in hospital in Los Angeles.

Elizabeth Taylor was said to be improving in a Los Angeles hospital and receiving visits from family and friends.

Elizabeth Taylor has been taken to hospital with congestive heart failure.

HOLLYWOOD actress Brittany Murphy died from natural causes, a Los Angeles coroner insisted yesterday.

Hollywood actress Brittany Murphy, who collapsed at her home, died from natural causes, a Los Angeles coroner insisted today.

Hollywood actress Brittany Murphy, who got her start in the hit 'Clueless' and rose to stardom in '8 Mile', died yesterday in Los Angeles of what appeared to be natural causes, a coroner’s official said.

Hollywood actress Brittany Murphy has died aged 32, a Los Angeles hospital spokesman said.

Anna Nicole Smith was addicted to prescription drugs and her psychiatrist should have known it, an expert witness told a Los Angeles court.

Hollywood actor Dennis Quaid and his wife have agreed to a $750,000 €547,000) settlement with a hospital that gave his newborn twins an overdose of blood thinner.

Cyd Charisse, the long-legged beauty who danced with the Ballet Russe as a teenager and starred in MGM musicals with Fred Astaire and Gene Kelly, died today in Los Angeles aged 86.

Senator Edward Kennedy was diagnosed with a cancerous brain tumour in what could be the grim final chapter in a life marked by exhilarating triumph and shattering tragedy.

Rocker Courtney Love has been admitted to hospital in Los Angeles after complaining of chest pains.

Barbara Streisand has stunned staff at Los Angeles' Cedars-Sinai Medical Centre by donating $5m (€3.1m) to a new health program.

A LOS Angeles hospital was fined $25,000 (€16,200) by state health regulators for giving overdoses of a blood thinner to three babies, including the newborn twins of actor Dennis Quaid.

Dennis Quaid describes a harrowing scene with “blood everywhere” as doctors and nurses worked to save his newborn twins after they were given an overdose of a blood thinner.

Troubled Britney Spears was back in hospital today for the second time this month after being taken from home by ambulance escorted by more than a dozen police motorbikes, two patrol cars and a pair of helicopters.

THE Associated Press has started preparing singer Britney Spears’ obituary within the past month.

A lawyer for Kevin Federline wants the Los Angeles Police Department to release its report on an incident at ex-wife Britney Spears’ home that led to the pop star losing custody of her two sons.

A Los Angeles hospital put three children, including actor Dennis Quaid’s newborn twins, in danger by giving them overdoses of a blood thinner, California regulators said today.

TROUBLED US pop star Britney Spears has been released from hospital, a TV show psychologist said yesterday.

Lawyers for Britney Spears and Kevin Federline were in court today in their child custody battle after the pop star was admitted to hospital in a bizarre incident that brought police and paramedics to her home.

Troubled Britney Spears was in hospital today after adding a new chapter to her troubled life.

HEAVY metal fans are not usually seen making bids at a high-end auctions, but they turned out in numbers to snatch up a coat with embroidered bats, sneakers with skulls on them and other items put up for sale by Ozzy Osbourne.

An investigation into a hospital blunder has been launched after the newborn twins of US actor Dennis Quaid and his wife Kimberly were reportedly given an overdose of a blood thinner.

POLICE were called to Owen Wilson’s home because of a report of an attempted suicide, according to a police log of weekend calls obtained yesterday.

US police were called to Owen Wilson’s home because of a report of an attempted suicide, according to a police log of weekend calls obtained today.

US ACTOR Owen Wilson was taken to hospital by paramedics, authorities in California confirmed yesterday.

US actor Owen Wilson was taken to hospital by paramedics, authorities in California confirmed today.

Nicole Kidman was taken to a hospital last night after she was involved in a car crash while filming her latest blockbuster, police in Los Angeles said.

Anna Nicole Smith’s 20-year-old son died from a lethal combination of methadone and two antidepressant drugs, a US-based pathologist who conducted a private autopsy said yesterday.

Nicole Richie, whose drastic weight loss spawned speculation that she has an eating disorder, acknowledges she is “too thin” and is getting treatment to add pounds.

Brad Pitt, diagnosed with a mild case of viral meningitis and released from the hospital last week, accepted a €200,000 cheque on behalf of the Film Foundation at the Hollywood Foreign Press Association luncheon in Beverly Hills, California.

Actor Brad Pitt has been diagnosed with a mild case of viral meningitis but was released from the hospital, his publicist said.

MEL Gibson has donated $10m that will be split between Mattel Children’s Hospital at UCLA and the Cedars-Sinai Medical Centre to help care for children from foreign countries.

Actress Dyan Cannon has been released from a hospital after suffering smoke inhalation when a fire broke out in her flat.

Acclaimed photographer Helmut Newton has been killed in a car crash in the US, police said. He was 83.

A former member of glam rock band Kiss cheated death in a shooting outside a Hollywood nightclub, police said today.

A light aircraft plunged into a three-storey block of flats near Hollywood, killing at least two people, including the pilot.

Veteran actress Zsa Zsa Gabor – who was injured in a traffic accident nearly two months ago – has been moved from a hospital to a luxury suite at the Motion Picture and Television Hospital in Los Angeles.

Veteran actress Zsa Zsa Gabor was said to be in a fair condition today as she continued to recover from injuries suffered last week in a Sunset Boulevard car crash.

John Frankenheimer, director of such Hollywood classics as "The Manchurian Candidate" and "Birdman of Alcatraz," has died. He was 72.