The EU launches Thursday its Europeana digital library, an online digest of Europe`s cultural heritage that aims to draw together millions of books and other items.

Three-dimensional films, once blamed for making audiences nauseous, are making a comeback and are likely to become the future of cinema thanks to digital technology, Hollywood studio moguls say.

Buyers have put in offers of one million pounds (1.5 million dollars, 1.2 million euros) for the house where footballer David Beckham lived as a baby, the businessman handling the sale said Wednesday.

Britons voiced anger Wednesday as a hopeless contestant described as a `dancing pig` quit a top television show, seeking to defuse a media-fuelled row which has threatened to divide the nation.

Hollywood heart-throb Hugh Jackman has become the first Australian to be crowned `Sexiest Man Alive` by People magazine, it was announced on Wednesday.

Jackman, 40, who stars alongside Nicole Kidman in Baz Luhrmann`s sweeping epic `Australia` due for release in the United States next week, beat out a slew of rivals including Javier Bardem, David Beckham and Daniel Craig.

Walt Disney on Wednesday said it had signed a ground-breaking deal with IMAX that will see the studio release of five films on the company`s state-of-the-art giant screens.

The first film in the deal would be a 3-D cinematic retelling of `A Christmas Carol` starring Jim Carrey, due to be released in November 2009.

US actress Winona Ryder was briefly taken to hospital in London on Wednesday after falling on ill on a flight from Los Angeles, her publicist said, adding that she had recovered.

She was treated for an unspecified problem by doctors on arrival at London`s Heathrow Airport, he said, confirming comments by spokesmen for a local hospital and airline British Airways.

Saying they were tired of YouTubers `ripping us off,` British comedy troupe Monty Python have struck back, launching their own channel on the video-sharing site.

`For three years you YouTubers have been ripping us off, taking tens of thousands of our videos and putting them on YouTube,` the surviving Monty Python members said in a message and video at youtube.com/MontyPython.

US actress Winona Ryder was taken to hospital near London`s Heathrow Airport on Wednesday after falling ill on a flight from Los Angeles, hospital and airline spokesmen said.

`The captain of BA282, which was travelling from LA to Heathrow, requested a priority landing as a female passenger required medical attention,` said a spokesman for British Airways.

Legendary Welsh singer Tom Jones shocked passers-by in central London on Wednesday by performing an impromptu set on a pavement to raise money for a cancer charity.

The 68-year-old thrilled hundreds of people who thronged around him snapping photographs on their mobile phone cameras, as he sang with only an acoustic guitarist alongside him.