Starring: Kate Hudson, Gael García Bernal

Somewhere in Downing Street is a pile of babygrows, nappies and toys worth hundreds of pounds.

Starring: Kimberly Elise, Janet Jackson

US manufacturer in the dock after disguise is linked to robberies.

If the Swedish crime writer Stieg Larsson were still alive, he might already be at work on a new bestseller, The Man Who Slept With A Feminist. The f-word has been used repeatedly about the accusers of Julian Assange, the WikiLeaks founder, who is on remand in custody in the UK while he fights extradition to Sweden.

The urge to lighten one's skin colour is a disturbing sign of 'ethnic' psychosis

All the action from the world’s second-largest comedy festival

Church gets tough with liberal habits of American sisters

Those wacky old nuns on Wimple Street are leaping about like nobody's business, as if this theatre's previous incumbents in The Sound of Music had been given a blessing to boogie. How do you solve a problem called Deloris, the lounge singer who's witnessed a killing? You camouflage her in a convent and round up the bad guys by flushing 'em out in a fit of funk.

Glenn Beck is the fastest-rising star on American TV. He's part of a right-wing broadcasting boom that's become the most powerful opposition to the President. Guy Adams reports

The BBC's king of pop Andy Parfitt has high hopes for Radio 1 chief Ben Cooper, he tells Ian Burrell

Black British actors who believe their talent is overlooked prepare to stage their own awards ceremony

Let's tackle anti-social behaviour with compulsory evening classes in running a home and raising a family

Just as Buzz Lightyear thought he was really an astronaut, so Stripes the zebra thinks he's a thoroughbred racehorse. A stray from the circus, Stripes is adopted by a widowed horse-trainer (Bruce Greenwood) and befriended by a goat and a Shetland pony. That the latter are voiced respectively by Whoopi Goldberg and Dustin Hoffman should tip you the wink: this is school of Babe, where the animals talk to each other and flies whizz around enthusing over "poo".