NEW ENGLAND Patriots quarterback Tom Brady is expected to miss the rest of the 2008 season with a torn anterior cruciate ligament in his left knee, according to a source familiar with the injury.

A US academic today spoke of his shock at the extent of apparent security force collusion in loyalist paramilitary murders in the North.

Former Trinidadian prime minister Basdeo Panday hid thousands of pounds in a British bank account, a prosecutor told the start of a criminal trial for the prominent opposition leader.

Italian movie star Monica Bellucci and her actor husband Vincent Cassel are taking a break from films to care for their first child, Deva, who was born in Rome on Sunday.

Italian screen beauty Monica Bellucci is pregnant with her first child.

Screened at the Cannes Film Festival, this French shocker - and it truly is - comes with 'controversy' written all over it.