NEW DELHI, April 2, 2008 (AFP) - Bollywood superstar Aamir Khan said Wednesday he would take part in the Olympic torch relay in India, spurning calls for a boycott but carrying 'a prayer' for the Tibetan people.

SYDNEY, April 2, 2008 (AFP) - A young Australian artist said Wednesday he had turned down lucrative offers for his haunting portrait of the late actor Heath Ledger and would give the painting to the star's mother.

NEW DELHI, April 2, 2008 (AFP) - Top Bollywood star Aamir Khan said on Wednesday he would take part in the Olympic torch relay in India 'with a prayer' in his heart for the people of Tibet, spurning calls for a boycott.

TOKYO, April 2, 2008 (AFP) - Japanese newspapers warned Wednesday that freedom of expression was at stake after cinemas pulled a documentary about a Tokyo shrine honouring war dead amid pressure from nationalists.

LOS ANGELES, April 2, 2008 (AFP) - George Clooney may be one of the elite Hollywood stars to have earned Oscar nominations for acting and film-making, but the iconic heart-throb is still getting used to directing himself.

SANTIAGO, April 1, 2008 (AFP) - The mayor of a small town in northern Chile where the latest Bond film is being shot was arrested Tuesday for driving onto the set in a Jeep leading a group of 200 locals, local media said.

SAO PAULO, April 1, 2008 (AFP) - Documentary films, it was once thought, should be neutral windows on the world, objective investigations brought to the big screen.

But not any more -- not in our world of YouTube home videos and Michael Moore polemics and reality TV and feature narratives that borrow heavily from true stories.

LOS ANGELES, April 1, 2008 (AFP) - The private detective at the center of a Hollywood wiretapping scandal offered to murder a film producer involved in a business dispute with a client, a court heard Tuesday.

WASHINGTON, April 1, 2008 (AFP) - There was a sprinkling of Hollywood glitter in official Washington on Tuesday, as Robert Redford went to Capitol Hill seeking more US government funding for the arts.

LOS ANGELES, April 1, 2008 (AFP) - Brad Pitt is being lined up to play British explorer Percy Fawcett, who disappeared in the Amazon jungle in 1925 during an expedition to find a lost city, it was reported on Tuesday.