NEW YORK (Reuters) - A low-budget movie about a lesbian couple raising two children might have once seemed a long shot for packing theaters and claiming Oscar glory.

Asian fortune-tellers are divining mixed blessings for Britain's Prince William and fiancee Kate Middleton, with the gloomier oracles warning of affairs, divorce and trouble having children.

LONDON (Reuters) - Britain's Prince William will marry his long-term girlfriend Kate Middleton next year after an on-off courtship that has lasted nearly a decade.

Prince William's fiancee Kate Middleton said she was daunted but happy to be marrying into Britain's royal family next year after he proposed, offering her his late mother Diana's engagement ring.

Prince William's fiancee Kate Middleton said Tuesday she was daunted but happy to be marrying into the royal family next year after he proposed using his late mother Diana's engagement ring.

LONDON (Reuters) - Britain's Prince William will marry his long-term girlfriend Kate Middleton next year after an on-off courtship that has lasted nearly a decade.

Timeline of a British royal romance for Prince William and Kate Middleton. A timeline of key events in the life of Britain's Prince William, who announced he will marry girlfriend Kate Middleton in 2011.

After Prince William finally proposed to Kate Middleton following years of courtship the big question now is how she will cope with her new role, amid inevitable comparisons with Princess Diana.

As a queen in waiting, Kate Middleton has options for her title after marriage. Queen Catherine? She must wait for that one.

LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Actress and singer Jessica Simpson is ready to get married again -- this time to American football player Eric Johnson.

Royal Wedding? Expectations mount that Prince William and Kate Middleton will announce wedding. They've met the parents. They've even gone shooting with the parents. They've had their trial breakups and trial makeups.

Worldwide fans of the boy wizard have been eagerly awaiting the release of "Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part One", the first of two movies based on the seventh and final book by J.K. Rowling.

LONDON (Reuters) - Britain's Queen Elizabeth has joined Facebook, adding a presence on the world's most popular social network to the royal family's accounts on Twitter, photo-sharing site Flickr and YouTube.

LONDON (Reuters) - Britain's Queen Elizabeth has joined Facebook, adding a presence on the world's most popular social network to the royal family's accounts on Twitter, photo-sharing site Flickr and YouTube.

Can you curtsey on the Internet? UK's Queen Elizabeth II launches official Facebook page. Queen Elizabeth II is now on Facebook ? but she's not going to be your friend.

Actress Portia DeGeneres, the wife of talk show host Ellen DeGeneres, says her eating disorder was about trying to starve away her sexuality. Actress Portia DeGeneres, the wife of talk show host Ellen DeGeneres, says her eating disorder was about trying to starve away her sexuality. The 37-year-old Australian-born actress is promoting her memoir Unbearable Lightness: A Story of Loss and Gain, in which she talks about her struggles with anorexia and coming to terms with being gay. In a profile broadcast on ABC's Nightline on Thursday, DeGeneres talks about how she fused together her two greatest fears. ?I think I was trying to starve away my sexuality,? she said. ?I was straight up and down. I didn't have a period. There was nothing about me that looked sexual. I looked like a young girl. I looked like a little kid. And when I was a little kid, I didn't have to think about my sexuality.? (The video is embedded in the right panel of this page.) DeGeneres gives her talk show wife credit f

TV hosts Nick Lachey and Vanessa Minnillo are engaged; no wedding date announced. Wedding bells will ring again for one-time "Newlyweds" star Nick Lachey. A rep for Lachey says the singer and TV personality is engaged to his longtime girlfriend, Vanessa Minnillo.

Swedish king pleads for peace and quiet after book digs into his private life. Sweden's King Carl XVI Gustaf has appealed for peace and quiet after a new book shattered a long-held tradition among Swedish media not to print intimate details about his private life.

In a Wednesday appearance on ABC's 'The View,' an emotional Ricky Martin received a warm round of applause when he said he loved gay teens. In a Wednesday appearance on ABC's The View, an emotional Ricky Martin received a warm round of applause when he said he loved gay teens. Martin is returning to the limelight after taking a break from his career to devote time to his twin boys, Valentino and Matteo. The Livin' la Vida Loca singer, who came out gay on his website in March, is hitting the talk show circuit to promote his memoir Me!, which is also available in Spanish, and an upcoming studio album. His first stop was an appearance Tuesday on the Oprah Winfrey Show, where he told Winfrey that holding his sons in his arms gave him the courage to come out of the closet. When Whoopi Goldberg asked the singer his thoughts on the recent spate of gay teens bullied to death, Martin replied the issue was about self esteem. ?As parents we must be constantly telling our children how important th

ROME (Reuters) - Actress Julianne Moore spoke out in favor of same-sex parents as she presented "The Kids Are All Right," a film where she and Annette Bening play a long-term lesbian couple raising their teenaged children.