It's been almost a year since Katie Holmes dropped the divorce bomb on husband Tom Cruise (and the rest of us, for that matter). Now rumors are swirling that the 34-year-old has moved on romantically with "Mania Days" co-star Luke Kirby, with whom she was photographed grabbing dinner in New York Tuesday evening after a day of shooting an intimate water fountain scene at Washington Square Park.

The Daily Mail suggests that Holmes is "the latest actress to fall for her co-star," while the IBTimes wondered if "a special relationship is blossoming between Holmes and [Kirby]."

A case of life imitating art, or just really good acting? As suggested by its title, the film, produced by Spike Lee, follows a couple of manic depressives who start a romance after meeting in a psychiatric hospital. Kirby, a veteran television actor, most recently played the romantic lead opposite Michelle Williams in the Sarah Polley-directed "Take This Waltz."

For his part, 50-year-old Cruise was briefly linked to a New York restaurant manager in December but told "ET" that he was focusing more on work. "I'm not thinking about [dating] right now. Right now I'm thinking about the movie ["Oblivion"]," Cruise said.

Failure is OK, but continuing to work hard is more important, Michelle Obama said Friday.

That was the message the first lady delivered to students at an elementary school where the arts are being used to help boost student performance. The school is located in Anacostia, one of the city's poorest neighborhoods.

Mrs. Obama said failure was not an impediment for her and shouldn't be for them.

She also encouraged the students to "try new things and not be afraid to fail, because we have all failed."

"You're looking at the first ... I have failed at things. Things have been really hard for me at times," Mrs. Obama said at Savoy Elementary School. "But all I had to do was keep going and keep working hard."

To further illustrate her point, she pointed to Kerry Washington, star of ABC's "Scandal," as another example.

Mrs. Obama said the actress, who was sitting in the audience for the visit, is a big star these days because she chose to keep perfecting her craft instead of becoming discouraged by rejection during her career.

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"She spent a lot of time practicing and working and trying out for things and having people tell her `no,' `no, thank you,' `you're not good enough, you're not pretty enough,'" the first lady said. "Could you imagine somebody telling Kerry that she wasn't pretty enough, she wasn't tall enough, she was too short? That's all performing is, is rejection."

Washington, who is the school's arts ambassador, later said she wasn't sure how that came to be.

"It might have something to do with playing Olivia Pope and having a principal Pope," she joked. Olivia Pope is her character on "Scandal" and Patrick Pope is the school's principal.

01. 45 am: Arun Jaitley refuses to react on Meiyappan arrest

While the drama of IPL spot-fixing has continued well into the night, Arun Jaitley has stayed away from making any comments on the late night arrest of Gurunath Meiyappan.

“Why should I comment on Meiyappan’s arrest?” CNN-IBN quoted Jaitley as saying.

01.40 am: Meiyappan asked more than 100 questions, may face same charges as Vindoo

CNN-IBN is reporting that Meiyappan was asked more than a hundred questions, and the word is that he may be facing the same charges as Vindoo Dara Singh. However, the crime branch has not confirmed the charges against him.

01.19 am: BCCI top brass want Arun Jaitley as chief

Meanwhile, BCCI sources have told CNN-IBN that the top brass in the cricket body wants Arun Jaitley to take over as the BCCI chief

But N Srinivasan has reportedly told the news channel that he is not resigning.

00. 13 am: Meiyappan arrested by Mumbai crime branch

The Mumbai Crime Branch have arrested BCCI chief N Srinivasan’s son-in-law Gurunath Meiyappan after questioning.

Mumbai Joint commissioner Himanshu Roy said, “We have interrogated Mr Gurunath. We have gone through questioning with him in detail and after due deliberation we have come to the conclusion that there is evidence of his involvement in the offense we are investigating.

“And therefore he has been placed under arrest and will be produced before a court within 24 hours as per the law.”

However, Roy did not specify the specific charges against Meiyappan. According to CNN-IBN, there are nine charges that pertain to the case, including sections 4 and 5 of the Gambling Act, as well as cheating forgery and fraud. The police will need to specify the specific charges against Meiyappan when they produce him in court. SOURCE

Gunmen killed four Indian soldiers Friday in an ambush outside Srinagar, sparking a gun battle in which one attacker also died.
The Indian soldiers were on a search operation during a patrol when they were ambushed in the village of Hardu Buchoo, 30 kilometres  southeast of Srinagar near the forested area of Tral. “The militants fired at the soldiers from outside the village, when the cordon was laid,” Indian army spokesman Lieutenant Colonel Ankur Vashist told AFP in Srinagar. “Four of our soldiers were killed,” Vashist said. The gunmen fled into the forest and the army called in reinforcements to encircle the area and try to capture them. Three soldiers were killed in the ambush and a soldier injured in the ensuing gunbattle later died, a police official told AFP.
“One militant involved in the attack was also killed during the encounter. We are ascertaining his identity,” Abdul Gani Mir, police chief, said.
The ambush comes a day after Indian forces killed a top militant from outlawed group Lashkar-e-Taiba (LeT) in Srinagar during an early morning gun battle.

Salman Khan's leading day in his home production Mental, Sana Khan has been declared absconding after she was charged with alleged attempted abduction of a 15-year-old girl for rejecting her cousin's marriage proposal, police said today.

Navi Mumbai police have already arrested four persons --Sana's cousin Naved Khan (22) and his three friends Kshitij Dubey (22) and Vismit Ambre (23) and a 17-year-old boy minor -- in the case.

Hunt is on to trace the 25-year-old actress, said Panduranga Sawant, inspector at Turbhe police station here.

"Our teams had also gone to the residence of Sana in Mumbai but she was not there," Sawant told PTI.

As Sana has gone into hiding, Mental's shooting schedule has reportedly got disrupted.

According to police, the victim studying in ninth standard had befriended Naved on social networking site Facebook in November last year. Later they started meeting.

After a few months, Naved proposed marriage to her but the girl refused. However, Naved kept pursuing her when she stopped meeting him and discontinued her FB account.

"On April 30 evening, when the girl was returning home in Sanpada, Naved stopped her at Mora circle area. He was found accompanied by three of his friends and Sana, who was at the wheel of a BMW car," said Sawant.

Naved and his friends tried to drag the girl into Sana's car, but she managed to free herself and ran towards her house, Sawant added.

Sana, Naved and his friends were already at her house when the victim reached home, where they had a heated argument before leaving.

Sarees are in these days... With talented beauties going for that five-metre clothing, B-town seems to be going back in times when sarees were in vogue and actresses like Waheeda Rehman and Sharmila Tagore had been picture of style and elegance... In today's generation the young and ravishing Sonakshi Sinha seems to be bringing back the trend and why not! The 'Dabangg' beauty indeed looks fabulous in saree...

It can be noted that the elegant looking actress has never disappointed with the selection of her sari. Be it in movies or events, Sonakshi has been seen clad in beautiful sarees. The desi looking Sonkashi is now taking her fancy of sarees on the next level.

In a song "Sawaar Loon" from her upcoming movie 'Lootera' she will be wearing 9 different sarees. The movie is set in the era of 50's due to which Sonkashi will be seen wearing a lot of sarees in the movie.

According to our sources, for the song, the sarees were specially selected for Sonakshi to emphasize her beautiful features and make her look of that era. In fact the nine sarees, which she had to wear for this particular sequence, cost nearly Rs. 3Lakh altogether!!

It isn't lip synced and is shown as a montage spread over various days, so the outfits were essential. Each sari was especially chosen, and cost R30,000 - 35,000. Most of them were handloom silk. And the outcome has been beautiful.

"Vikram and his team have etched out my look so aesthetically and beautifully in Lootera. I am in saris for the most part and have become an expert in wearing one," Sonakshi laughed. "In Sawaar Loon, I had to change my sari 9 times! But it was all worth it when I saw the results!" she added.

In 'Lootera' for the first time Ranveer Singh and Sonakshi are coming together.

The Desperate Housewives actress received her Master's degree in Chicano Studies and took to Twitter to share her excitement ahead of the ceremony.

She tweeted: "Big day today!!! Very excited to graduate for my Master's degree in Chicano Studies! You're never too old or too busy to continue your education! (sic)

Longoria's former 'Desperate Housewives' co-star Marica Cross, tweeted her congratulations, writing "Huge congratulations on your graduation today!!!! From Canne to Cap and Gown. You are really something. Xoxo m (sic)."

Longoria, 38, recently revealed she was frantically working on her thesis in order to graduate on time.

She said: "I'm writing my thesis now. Hopefully, I'll finish in time!"

Speaking about her studies, her representative said: "Eva enrolled at Northridge three years ago and is receiving her Master's degree in Chicano Studies with her thesis on 'Success STEMS From Diversity: The Value of Latinas in STEM [Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics] Careers.'"

Former Miss South Africa finalist Vanessa Goosen, the Eastern Cape beauty who was freed two weeks ago after spending 16 years in a Thai jail for running drugs, has returned home.

Speaking at OR Tambo International airport in Johannesburg yesterday, she said she knew her release would come some day because she had never given up hoping.

"But when it eventually happened, I just couldn't believe it," Goosen told eNews.

Asked about her daughter, Felicia, who she gave birth to in jail and who turned 16 at the weekend, she said she had been devastated when the child was taken from her at the age of three and sent home to be fostered in South Africa.

"My heart was torn apart," she said. I never thought I could make it."

Goosen, 38, who has always maintained her innocence, said she would never forget her experience.

"Many stories have been printed, many things have been said. [People] have their own opinion, whatever they want to say but I just want to say that, yes I was in prison for 16 years, six months and 16 days and it's an experience I will never forget.

"And it's an experience that I want to share with others: that they should be very careful who they mingle with."

Speaking from the family home in Cradock, her younger sister, Melissa, said she was bursting with excitement and confused emotions.

"I can confirm Vanessa is in Johannesburg, and she is with her daughter. The plan is we will re-unite there, probably this weekend," she said.

"We are asking the media to respect that we need some privacy with her.

"I am extremely excited. I feel like exploding, like crying, like screaming. There are so many emotions, so much lost time to make up for."

Melissa said she and Vanessa had stayed in regular contact by writing letters to each other. Then about two years ago it became possible to send e-mails.

Paris Hilton has signed to Birdman's Cash Money record label and will release a single with Lil Wayne.

The 32-year-old heiress - who released her debut album Paris in 2006 - will release a house music album later this year and has already recorded a single with Lil Wayne.

Cash Money's Birdman tweeted: "Welcome@ParisHilton to tha Family. RichgangRichgirl. YMCMB (sic)."

Hilton replied: "@BIRDMAN5STAR Thanks BO$$! Happy to be a part of the family. #PH YMCMB (sic)."

She also posted a link to a YouTube video, writing: "Love this song I recorded with @LilTunechi. Love Lil Wayne, he is so amazing! Can't wait for our new song!#I YMCMB (sic)."

This is some good news for Paris after she recently become a swatting victim for the second time.

The hotel heiress was once again the subject of a cruel prank when someone called 911 pretending to be her, claiming she was trapped in her bedroom with a gun to her head.

Police rushed to the socialite's Los Angeles mansion, but the only sign of life they found were her pet pooches tearing around the house.

When Hilton, she was shocked to discover police cars surrounding her house. The incident, which took place earlier this month, was almost identical to a joke played on Paris two months ago

A 21-year-old Durban woman is considering suing more than 100 Facebook users who made derogatory comments about a photograph of her that appeared on a page called "SA's finest girls".

In the photo, she appears sucking a lollipop while wearing a revealing top.

In the comments section, Claudia Naidoo was called a slut, a disgrace to South African Indian women and repeatedly told that she was asking to be raped.

The creator of the page - which has about 3200 Facebook fans - called it a platform to "promote the outstanding beauty and sexiness of the women right here in South Africa".

Naidoo's photo has received the most attention on the Facebook page - 400 comments and at least 200 likes.

"I'm considering legal action because no one should be cyber-bullied, defamed or slandered on social media. Negative comments that are valid are acceptable, but victimisation and hate speech are not. The defamatory comments came mostly from Indian women, who went as far as insulting my parents and my boyfriend," Naidoo said yesterday.

Naidoo said she was appalled by comments that linked her attire to rape.

"They went on to say I should be raped and actually encouraged it. Many women dress provocatively. This does not mean they are asking to be raped. Every day children, babies and elderly women are raped. Did their clothes ask for it?"

Naidoo said that while she did not post the photo, she would not remove it.

"I see nothing wrong with my photograph," Naidoo said.

Social media law consultant Emma Sadleir said Naidoo could sue the offending Facebook users for defamation, complain to the Human Rights Commission if she believed the comments were based on her race, and lay a crimen injuria charge with the police.

She said the legal principles on defamation also applied online.

"People think they are anonymous and that is a fallacy that we must dispel."

Sadleir said there was a misconception among social media users that there was safety in numbers.

"This is not true. In Britain, Lord McAlphine is suing 10000 Twitter users for linking him to sexual abuse," she said.