A growing preference among consumers for lower-priced iPhones contributed to a significant shortfall for Apple in its latest quarterly earnings, compared with Wall Street expectations, according to figures released yesterday.

Confusion reigns over the proposed Belfast shoot of a £4m film 'Yankee King', with Kelly Brook’s management reporting they had pulled her from the line-up because they hadn’t heard from the recently-formed company Reel Hollywood (co-founders Sir Richard Attenborough and Jo Gilbert).

Steve Jobs, the charismatic chief executive of Apple Computers, has had surgery to remove a cancerous tumour from his pancreas but says he expects a full recovery.

It's been a long time since Jennifer Lopez was merely a dancer in a Janet Jackson video. These days she's a bigger star than her fellow singer, dominating the music and movie worlds with apparent ease.