Saturday, just one day before the Oscars, Sandra Bullock, nominated for the Oscars and favoured to win, was crowned as the Worst Actress of 2009.

Nominated for her drama ‘The Blind Side’, Bullock was the odds-on favorite to win the best actress Oscar, however, she was awarded the Worst Female Performance Razzie Award for her acting in ‘All About Steve’.

This is a first as no actor or actress has won both the Razzie and Oscar in the same year.

Criticising the NHS for treating patients with lack of compassion, Vincent Nichols, the Archbishop of Westminster and the Head of the Roman Catholic Church in England and Wales said certain hospitals saw the sick as simply medical or behavioural problems to be tackled and resolved.

Health campaigners are subjecting fast food giant, Burger King to extreme grilling over its 1,010-calorie hamburger, the Three Cheese Double Angus, even as child obesity is on the rise.

The burger plus fries and cola mean anyone who was hungry enough to eat them, would have to run 17 miles, just to burn the 1,733 calories and 2½-oz of fat, which is an adult woman’s entire daily saturated fat allowance and half her daily calorie limit, according to dietitian Victoria Taylor.

According to a new Canadian study conducted by researchers from the University of Montreal, Valentine’s Day may be for and is celebrated by young couples; however, the truth is love ripens with age.

Surprisingly, according to the study findings, older couples seemed to be more in love, including having more satisfying sex lives after retirement, despite some physiological hurdles, than their counterparts.

Selecting 511 retired couples, the researchers used the internationally recognised Spanier Dyadic Adjustment Scale to gauge the satisfaction level of their relationships.

Backing the shedding of the egoistical ‘I’, research indicates it is detrimental for not only individuals to use ‘I’, but more so for couples, with the beneficial effects of using ‘We’ rather than ‘I’ holding true for both.

University of California researchers who conducted the study found that using the word ‘We’ works marvels leading to a far happier marriage, than couples who insist on using ‘I’.

According to researchers from the Scripps Research Institute, the stress hormone corticotropin-releasing factor (CRF) has been found to play an essential role in the development and continuation of alcohol dependence in lab animals.

Researchers studying alcohol dependency in rats; apart from confirming CRF plays a central role in alcohol addiction, the study also showed blocking the hormone on a long-term basis alleviated symptoms of alcohol dependence in rats, with the help of a variety of CRF antagonists.

While, no one knows where embattled Tiger Woods has disappeared to, his wife Elin Nordegren, 30, putting thousand of miles between her scandal ridden husband is staying at a $8,000 per night, seven bedroom chalet outside the posh French Alps ski resort town of Chamonix, even as she considers her future.

Nordegren and Josefin, her twin sister together with close friends and under the watchful eye of a private French security force consisting of five men, are spending time skiing in Les Houches, an exclusive ski area next to the Chamonix valley, over-looking the picturesque Mont Blanc.

Singer Van Morrison has denied he has fathered a baby with his manager, blaming the widely reported statement on his website down to a hacking attack.

The publicity-shy singer-songwriter of blues and R&B has called the birth announcement on his website as totally without and base or foundation.

The statement that said Gigi and Van Morrison, 64, were the proud parents of their first born son named George Ivan Morrison III, was said to have been distributed to the media by Phil Lobel, the Los Angeles-based publicist of the Belfast-born singer.

Getting into the spirit of giving this festive holiday season, Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie, known for their generosity, once again showed their caring side by donating $100,000 to alternative foster care organization - the American SOS Children’s Villages located in Illinois and Florida.

In her statement, Jolie, 34, said that she has seen the remarkable job SOS does in raising orphaned and abandoned children firsthand, including how they try and keep families together, by providing advanced education, vocational training, living assistance and support.