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Hollywood actress Naomi Watts gives birth to her first child, a boy named Alexander Pete Schreiber.

JK Rowling says she is back at work, just days after her final Harry Potter book was published.

Guy Ritchie is to direct a film version of comic series The Gamekeeper, according to a report.

The BBC’s flagship online TV service, called iPlayer, launches amid some concerns.

Six buildings are shortlisted for the prestigious £20,000 Stirling Prize for architecture.

Rock legend Jimmy Page gives evidence in an alleged bootleg music case at Glasgow Sheriff Court.

Quentin Tarantino will curate a retrospective of spaghetti westerns at the Venice Film Festival.

An unusual physical fitness regime at a jail in the Philippines has attracted worldwide attention on YouTube.

Klaxons singer Jamie Reynolds postpones the group’s Australian tour after breaking his leg at a gig in France.

Franz Ferdinand announce a tour of small venues in parts of Scotland where the band has never played.

Blockbusters including Spider-Man 3 lift UK cinema attendance in the first half of 2007.

BBC Two’s first airing of US fantasy drama series Heroes captures an audience of 4.3m viewers.

Springwatch presenter Bill Oddie gets a new BBC series looking at the quirkier side of wildlife.

A pathologist testifies that Lana Clarkson “most likely” killed herself, at Phil Spector’s murder trial in Los Angeles.

Actor Chris Langham takes to the witness box at his child sex trial to tell jurors he is not a paedophile.

Hollywood cinematographer Laszlo Kovacs, renowned for his work on 1969 film Easy Rider, dies aged 74.

Pirated software worth $500m has been seized in raids against a Chinese software gang.

Sony quarterly profits more than double on demand for its cameras despite problems with its games console.

Blues legend Etta James is in a stable condition in hospital, following abdominal surgery last month.

The Walt Disney Company says it will stop showing cigarette smoking in its family-oriented films.