Based on a book by Nicholas Sparks, who also penned ‘The Notebook’ and ‘Dear John’, ‘The Lucky One’ follows a similar template – hunky guy, beautiful girl, deathly spectre of war – to chronicle the efforts of a battle-hardened Marine (Zac Efron) to track down the divorced mom (Taylor Schilling), whose photograph literally saved his life behind enemy lines.

HOLLYWOOD superstars Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie have accepted undisclosed damages to settle their privacy action over claims that they were separating.

Poland and the United States today opened formal talks on Washington’s contentious request to place part of a new missile defence system in the eastern European nation.

Poland and the United States were today opening their first formal talks on Washington’s contentious plans for missile defence, the US Embassy said.

ACTRESS Nicole Kidman accepted undisclosed libel damages in London’s High Court yesterday over a newspaper article alleging she had an adulterous affair with actor Jude Law.

Nicole Kidman has accepted undisclosed libel damages in the British High Court over a newspaper article alleging she had an adulterous affair with actor Jude Law.

A Philippines Muslim rebel leader has offered to kill an ailing US hostage if Iraqi President Saddam Hussein asks him to.

An American hostage held by Muslim terrorists in the Philippines is seriously ill, a spokesman for the rebel Abu Sayyaf group said today.