American talk show host Conan O'Brien is celebrating after becoming a father for the second time. The 42-year-old's wife Liza Powel O'Brien gave birth to baby son Beckett on Wednesday. Beckett - a brother for 2-year-old Neve - weighed eight pounds and four ounces. A statement from the family reads, "Mother, baby and father are all well."

A man has died after being shot following a US screening of the controversial 50 Cent movie Get Rich Or Die Tryin'. Shelton Flowers, 30, was one of three men involved in a toilet bust-up immediately after the 50 Cent biopic finished showing at a cinema in Homestead, Pennsylvania, on Wednesday. Police have yet to establish a direct link between Flowers' murder and the film, directed by Jim Sheridan. No arrests have been made. The cinema in question has now stopped showing Get Rich Or Die Tryin'. Spokesman John McCauley says, "We're unclear whether there is a direct connection."

Veteran actor Sir Sean Connery is to be awarded the American Film Institute's (AFI) Life Achievement Award to honor his outstanding contribution to film. Scottish Connery is most famous for his role as superspy James Bond, who he played six times between 1962 and 1971, and once again in unofficial 007 movie Never Say Never Again. In 1988, the 75-year-old won the Best Supporting Actor Academy Award for his role in Brian De Palma's gangster film The Untouchables. Connery, the 34th person to be presented with the AFI Lifetime Achievement Award, will collect his honor at a ceremony in Los Angeles on 8 June next year. The AFI's Howard Stringer says, "Though best remembered for creating one of the great film heroes of all time, his talents transcend typecasting. His body of work not only stands the test of time, but illuminates a career more extraordinary than James Bond himself." Previous AFI Life Achievement Award recipients include Clint Eastwood, Robert De Niro, Alfred Hitchcock and Steven Spielberg.

Actor Bruce Willis has offered $1 million to anyone who turns in al-Qaeda terror leaders. The patriotic Die Hard star will pay out for information on the whereabouts of Osama Bin Laden, Aymen Al-Zawahiri or Abu Musab Al-Zarqawi, the alleged brains behind the 9/11 atrocity. Willis announced his reward on Us TV show Rita Cosby: Live And Direct, where he also slammed biased media coverage of the Iraq war. He said, "I am baffled to understand why the things that I saw happening in Iraq, really good things happening in Iraq, are not being reported on."

Moustapha Akkad, the executive producer of the Halloween films who lost his life in the hotel bomb attacks that hit Jordan on Wednesday, was given a hero's burial in Syria yesterday. The 69-year-old, who also directed the 1981 movie Lion Of The Desert starring Anthony Quinn, Oliver Reed and Rod Steiger, was in Amman to attend a wedding in one of three hotels struck by suicide bombers. His 34-year-old daughter, Rima Akkad Monla, also died in the blast. In the wake of Akkad's tragic death, Syrian President Bashar al-Assad signed a decree awarding the American national Syria's most prestigious civil medal to award "his Arab nationalist stances." Akkad was laid to rest in the northern city of Aleppo, where he was born and raised before he moved to Los Angeles in the 1950s to study.

Boxing legend Mike Tyson was ordered by a Brazilian judge on Friday to return to the country next March to stand trial for allegedly assaulting a cameraman. Carlos Eduardo Da Silva, who works for the Brazilian television network SBT, has accused Tyson of breaking his camera and hitting him over the head with camera equipment in a Sao Paulo nightclub on Thursday night. Tyson admits to breaking the camera to destroy the tape, as he didn't want to be filmed, but he denies assaulting the cameraman. If found guilty, the former heavyweight champion will be fined or sentenced to community service in Brazil.

Joaquin Phoenix was so nervous about promoting new movie Walk The Line on The Oprah Winfrey Show, the talk show queen had to coax him onto the stage. The actor - who plays Johnny Cash in the new biopic - tried to back out of the chat, because he feared vomiting on TV. Oprah, who is celebrating the 20th anniversary of the show, tells TV show Extra, "Nervous is not the word. He was a wreck. I've never seen nervous like that before. I had to go in the green room, and literally said to him, 'You don't have to put yourself through this.' He said, 'I think I'm going to throw up.'"

Veteran actor Tommy Lee Jones has criticized Texan Senator Kay Bailey Hutchinson's ideas on how to control immigration on the US/Mexico border. The Fugitive star, who lives in San Antonio near the Texas/Mexico border with his Hispanic wife Dawn, is angered by Hutchinson's plans for vigilante groups to guard borders. He says, "We have a United States senator who has been quoted as saying that our borders are hemorrhaging, a bleeding wound... and wants to introduce a bill that pours millions (of dollars) into federal enforcement of the borders and by golly she wants to give money to the vigilante groups. Just like a lot of politicians, (she) feeds on headlines. In this case she's making her appeal to rabid paranoia which is dangerous. It's a very complicated issue. There are people working in agriculture whose families have been split by the existence of this border and they're willing and able to do jobs in the north that no one else will do. They don't deserve to have their culture and their families split in two."

Madonna is determined to silence critics who have accused her of lip-synching segments of her live shows by giving one of her best ever vocal performances tonight. The Hung Up singer, who will sing five songs from her new album Confessions On A Dance Floor at intimate London venue Koko, was deeply hurt when pal Sir Elton John claimed she mimed on stage during her Reinvention tour. John said recently, "The official reason I heard was that she can't sing while doing the full crab position. Nobody's paid to come and see you do yoga. They've paid to hear you sing." But Madonna is adamant she will prove her vocal talents stand up to the acid test when she appears alongside a live band without backing singers. The 47-year-old's spokeswoman Barbara Charone says, "Madonna will be singing live at Koko and performing with a live band. The claim that she lip-synchs was always wrong."

Teen star Hilary Duff is feeling burned out after a punishing year which has seen her make three movies, perform a sell-out tour and write three songs for her greatest hits album Most Wanted. The singer is desperate for time away from the spotlight, and was forced to cancel her plans to take a holiday in September because she is in so much demand. She tells MTV.com, "I think it's the type of exhaustion that like one night of sleep doesn't fix, you know? I was supposed to take September off for my birthday, but it didn't happen."