Tom Cruise and Cameron Diaz are set to reteam for a new romantic comedy.

Teen comedy 'Superbad' is leading the nominations for the 2008 MTV Movie Awards after picking up five nods, including Best Movie.

Rush Hour star Chris Tucker is set to remind fans he's a stand-up comic first and foremost by embarking on a global comedy tour.

The return of Chan (as Chinese cop Lee) and Tucker (annoyingly hyper LAPD partner) in the sort of film fans have come to expect and will doubtless love.

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.

Movie-maker Roman Polanski is set to step out from behind the camera to play a French cop in the latest Rush Hour film.

Chris Tucker, Jackie Chan and director Brett Ratner have signed up to make a third Rush Hour movie.

Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie made their first public outing as a couple on Saturday night when they joined the celebrities paying tribute to boxing legend Muhammad Ali at a gala in Kentucky.

US TV network NBC has distanced itself from Kanye West's comments, after he blasted US President George W Bush during Friday's broadcast of A Concert For Hurricane Relief.

Live 8 exploded on to the stage in Philadelphia with a rousing performance by the Kaiser Chiefs, beamed live straight to Hyde Park.

Alicia Keys, the Black Eyed Peas, Josh Groban, Def Leppard and Toby Keith have been added to the line-up of Saturday’s Live 8 concert in Philadelphia.

Key testimony presented by prosecutors in the Michael Jackson case:

Jurors in the Michael Jackson child abuse trial will have to decide whether his teenage accuser is a credible witness after viewing the boy’s videotaped testimony.

The judge in Michael Jackson’s trial today cleared the way for another possible courtroom face-off between the singer and the boy accusing him of molestation.

The defence rested in the Michael Jackson child abuse trial without putting the pop star on the stand, wrapping up after a three-week effort to portray the accuser and his mother as shakedown artists.

The defence rested in the Michael Jackson child molestation trial today without putting the pop star on the stand, wrapping up after a surprisingly short three weeks.

Actor and comedian Chris Tucker testified today in Michael Jackson’s child molestation trial that during the time he befriended Jackson’s young accuser he found the boy to be unusually sophisticated and cunning for a 12-year-old.

Michael Jackson won’t take the stand in his child molestation trial, leaving jurors with only the singer’s videotaped statements about what happened behind Neverland’s closed doors.

TALK show host Jay Leno testified yesterday that the boy accusing singer Michael Jackson of molestation was “overly effusive” and sounded suspicious in phone calls to him - but never asked for money.

Television comedian and talk show host Jay Leno testified today that the boy who is now accusing Michael Jackson of molestation was “overly effusive” and sounded suspicious in phone calls to him – but never asked for money.

Defence lawyers in Michael Jackson’s child abuse trial in Santa Maria, California, are expected to call The Tonight Show host Jay Leno to testify today, and could call comedian Chris Tucker later in the day.

One of Michael Jackson’s former housekeepers testified today in his child molestation trial that an alarm that sounds when anyone enters the pop star’s bedroom suite had the same volume during a test recorded earlier this year as it did in previous years.

CNN newsman Larry King will meet his scheduled day in court in the Michael Jackson trial after all today.

In the grand theatre that is the Michael Jackson courtroom, a celebrity cast is lining up in defence of the pop singer, testing whether star power can help persuade jurors.

Rush Hour star Chris Tucker was arrested and jailed on Sunday morning, after Georgia police caught him speeding.

THE mother of Michael Jackson’s accuser took the stand outside the jury’s presence yesterday and immediately invoked her Fifth Amendment right to not testify about welfare payments she has received.

Michael Jackson plied a teenage boy with wine and showered him with expensive gifts, the boy’s sister told the singer’s child abuse trial.

The teenage sister of Michael Jackson’s accuser told his child molestation trial today that the star suddenly had the family flown by private jet to Miami where he ordered them to not watch a documentary about him that would be on TV that night.

A PROSECUTOR laid out the child molestation and conspiracy case against Michael Jackson yesterday, saying his 15-year-old accuser was abused and employees tried to silence him by warning his mother could be killed.

Michael Jackson was admitted to hospital today after his convoy was suddenly diverted as it drove to a California court for jury selection in the singer’s child molestation trial.

Michael Jackson imprisoned a child and his family at his ranch and forced them to make a video absolving him of sex claims after a television documentary linked the pop star to an obsession with young boys, a prosecutor said.

POP superstar Michael Jackson enticed a young boy, then imprisoned him and his family at his Neverland Ranch and forced them to make a video absolving him of molestation claims, a prosecutor said yesterday.

A comedy club owner who says he introduced Michael Jackson to the cancer-stricken boy he is accused of molesting said the child is in such poor health that his remaining kidney is failing and he needs a transplant.

RAP’S baddest boy has won yet another award after scooping album of the year at the Billboard Music Awards in Las Vegas.

R&B newcomer Ashanti made an impressive debut at the Billboard Music Awards in Las Vegas last night, carrying off eight awards.

Nicole Kidman was the star of the show scooping two awards at the MTV Movie awards at a star-studded ceremony in Los Angeles today.

Oscar-winning actor Sidney Poitier has received the Living Legend Award at the annual Trumpet Awards honouring black achievements in politics, science and the arts.