BELGIANS were still recovering yesterday after a television channel announced in a spoof programme that the Flemish part of the country had declared independence and that Belgium was no more.

Hollywood star Tom Cruise and new fiancee Katie Holmes will be on the red carpet in London tonight for the premiere of his latest film War of the Worlds.

Orson Welles’s Oscar for Citizen Kane, which was expected to fetch up to €350,000 at auction, has been withdrawn from sale after the Academy invoked its right to buy it back for a dollar.

The voice of Orson Welles is being used to narrate a new TV series.