Oprah Winfrey headed a celebrity line-up that included Tina Turner and Spike Lee at today’s opening of the talk-show queen’s new school for poor South African girls.

US president George Bush has been voted both “the good guy of 2006” and “the bad guy of 2006”.

Talk show titan Oprah Winfrey will be honoured by the United Nations for her efforts in helping the under-privileged.