ZAGREB, Nov 17, 2007 (AFP) - Croatian star of hit television series 'ER', Goran Visnjic, has admitted paternity of a baby girl, the product of an affair in 2006, local press in Croatia reported Saturday.

Visnjic, 35, did not fly over from the United States for a DNA test scheduled for Friday in Zagreb but instead sent a document confirming he was the father of eight-month old Lana Lourdes, the report said.

'He admitted paternity without DNA testing,' a lawyer for the mother, 36-year-old Mirela Rupic, told the Jutarnji List daily.

LOS ANGELES, Nov 16, 2007 (AFP) - The filming of 'Angels and Demons,' like 'The Da Vinci Code' adapted from a Dan Brown novel and starring Tom Hanks as professor Robert Langdon, has been delayed due to the screen writers' strike, Sony studios said Friday.

'With the strike nearing its third week, Columbia Pictures has postponed production of Angels and Demons,' said studio spokesman Steve Elzer, adding that the production was close to finishing.

MADRID, Oct 21, 2007 (AFP) - Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie are looking for a house in Europe so that their four children and future offspring can have a 'broad vision of the world,' the actor said in a interview published Sunday.

'While we are very nomadic, we would like to have a base in Europe. More attention is paid here to what is going on in the world and it is easier to get to Africa and Asia from here,' he told XL Semanal, the weekly magazine supplement of the ABC newspaper.

ISTANBUL, Oct 21, 2007 (AFP) - Istanbul's Fenerbahce sports club Sunday said it had cancelled centenary festivities due next week, including a concert by pop diva Beyonce, after the deaths of 12 soldiers in an ambush by Kurdish rebels.

'We decided today that these festivities could not be held in the present atmosphere,' Fenerbahce vice-president Ali Koc said in statement carried by the club's TV channel and its website.

'Our sorrow is deep, we share the grief of the nation.'

MADRID, Oct 21, 2007 (AFP) - Nobel prize winning author Doris Lessing said in an interview published Sunday that the September 11 attacks had not been 'so bad' when compared to Irish Republican Army action.

'September 11 was terrible, but if one re-examines the history of the IRA, what happened in the United States wasn't so bad,' Lessing, who captured this year's Nobel literature prize told Spain's leading El Pais daily.

The IRA waged a lengthy armed struggle against British rule in Northern Ireland. It declared an end to its armed campaign in 2005.

LOS ANGELES, Oct 19, 2007 (AFP) - Pop princess Britney Spears was at the center of yet another tabloid storm in a teacup on Friday after running over the foot of a photographer and driving away.

Video of the incident which took place in Beverly Hills on Thursday was posted on several celebrity news websites with TMZ.com identifying the photographer involved as one of its employees.

THE HAGUE, Oct 19, 2007 (AFP) - Jan Wolkers, one of the major Dutch writers of the post-war period, died Friday aged 81, media reported.

Wolkers is best known for his graphic description of sex in his 1960s novels which caused scandal at the time. Some Dutch schools banned his books because of the unabashed attention to sex, decay and death and his wry humour.

His best known novel is 'Turkish Delight' which was translated into more than 10 languages including French, German, Spanish and Japanese.

LONDON, Oct 19, 2007 (AFP) - The former guitarist in eighties rock band the Smiths, Johnny Marr, is to become a visiting music professor at a British university, he said Friday.

Marr, who co-wrote hits like 'How Soon is Now?' and 'Panic' with Smiths singer Morrissey, will deliver workshops and masterclasses to students on the popular music and recording course at Salford University in Manchester, north-west England.

'It is an honour to be appointed as a professor and I'm excited at the prospect of being able to make a contribution,' Marr, 44, told reporters.

LOS ANGELES, Oct 19, 2007 (AFP) - FBI agents raided a Las Vegas storage warehouse belonging to magician David Copperfield, seizing nearly two million dollars in cash, US media reported Friday.

Twelve Federal Bureau of Investigation agents took a computer hard drive, digital camera memory chip and the cash during an overnight Wednesday raid on Copperfield's storage space in Las Vegas, according to KLAS television in Las Vegas.

The warehouse is connected to an investigation that began in the northwestern state of Washington, according to KLAS.

OSLO, Oct 19, 2007 (AFP) - Norwegian police briefly arrested and then fined British soul singer Amy Winehouse for possessing and using marijuana, a lawyer working with the police in Bergen said Friday.

'She spent a few hours in custody from Thursday evening to early Friday, she got a fine and then she was released,' Lars Lothe told AFP.

'The case is over for us,' he added. Winehouse was fined 500 euros (714 dollars).

The singer was due to perform in Bergen, in the west of Norway, on Friday.