Galifianakis reportedly invited Elizabeth “Mimi” Haist, 87, to the Los Angeles premiere of the third of his Hangover films

The Hangover actor Zach Galifianakis’s date for his movie premieres isn’t arm candy  – it’s his 87-year-old friend who he saved from homelessness. Bravo, says Simon Usborne

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'Narrative' at the Royal Court theatre

Theatre review: Narrative, Royal Court Upstairs, London

Anthony Neilson's work at the Royal Court has been remarkably varied in tone and psychological provenance. It has ranged from a telling fantasia on the operations and import of bipolar disorder (in The Wonderful World of Dissocia) through to a piece (Relocated) that raised the spectre of the Josef Fritzl case and ripped the scab off our sense of the atrocity and it has incorporated a Yuletide show for young people in Get Santa. This latest piece, called with a slightly irritating baldness Narrative, is not at the X-rated end of Neilson's fertile and multiform imagination, but neither is fun-for-all-the-family (the theatre suggests that it is suitable for 14-year-olds upwards).

Stephen Hawking admits the biggest blunder of his scientific career - early belief that everything swallowed up by a black hole must be lost forever

Cosmologist also predicts the end of humanity on Earth and urges continuation of space exploration

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Michael Jackson's mother, Katherine

Michael Jackson's family to sue concert promoters AEG Live

Michael Jackson's family have launched their lawsuit against concert promoters AEG Live, whom they accuse of responsibility for the singer's death in 2009.

Shoot to thrill: Jamie Foxx stars in Django Unchained

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As moviemakers look to make money in the East, Geoffrey Macnab reveals the conditions that China is imposing

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In a show of exuberant generosity and breadth, images of natural beauty and brutal destruction jostle with Flickr fun

Morrissey has cancelled 22 shows in America due to ill health

Still Ill: Morrissey shows cancelled due to mounting health problems

Mancunian axes 22 shows, saying: 'The reports of my death have been greatly understated'

Hillary Clinton, Joe Biden, FBI chief Robert Mueller, Beyoncé, Jay-Z and Kim Kardashian all victims of online hackers

Some targets had private financial records published online

Great British Bake Off judge Paul Hollywood: 'I'm no sex symbol, I'm quite shy'

The Great British Bake Off judge Paul Hollywood admits he is no sex symbol at home - where he likes to lounge around in his slippers and dressing gown.

Florian Homm was arrested in the Uffizi Gallery

Financier, Florian Homm, arrested after five years' flight

One of Europe's highest-profile fund managers caught in Italy

Conclave to elect new pope next week

Cardinals have set Tuesday as the start date for the conclave to elect the next pope.

Japan's major airlines grounded their Boeing 787 planes for safety checks

Holiday airline Thomson abandons plans for troubled Dreamliner

Holiday airline Thomson has had to scrap plans to operate Boeing's troubled new ultra-green Dreamliner plane from May.

'Is there anybody willing to help this lady and not let her die?': Woman dies after retirement home nurse refuses to give her CPR, saying it was 'against the home's rules'

87-year-old Lorraine Bayless had collapsed at the Glenwood Gardens retirement home and was barely breathing when the 911 call was made

Google co-founder Sergey Brin feels 'emasculated' by smartphones

Brin describes using the new Google Glass as 'a little freaky at first, but you get used to it'

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Hollywood's random acts of red-carpet kindness

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