British television shows swept most of the top honours at the International Emmy Awards in New York, which honours excellence in television programming produced outside the US.

A medieval lakeside town outside Rome and its residents today braced themselves for an onslaught of fans, celebrities and paparazzi on the eve of the expected wedding of movie stars Tom Cruise and Katie Holmes.

Iran lifted its ban on CNN today, a day after the government had barred the US television network from the country because of its mistranslation of nuclear comments by President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, state television reported.

Oscar-winning actress Renee Zellweger got the treat of her life recently, when she met with one of her biggest heroes - veteran broadcast journalist Christiane Amanpour.

A top CNN journalist risked prompting a row with the US government after accusing the deputy defence secretary Paul Wolfowitz of lying and engaging in a “character assassination”.