British actress Maggie Smith says she is considering giving up stage acting because her battle with breast cancer has left her exhausted. Smith, 74, has undergone intensive chemotherapy and radiotherapy regimes since being diagnosed with breast cancer last year. It leaves you so flattened.

Academy Award(R)-Winning Actress and Screenwriter Emma Thompson Returns to Next Chapter of Beloved Family Comedy, Directed by Susanna White and Starring Maggie Gyllenhaal, Rhys Ifans and Academy Award(R) Winner Dame Maggie Smith LONDON, April 28 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Universal Pictures and Working Title Films - in association with Three Strange Angels Productions - announced today that principal photography begins early next month on Nanny McPhee and the Big Bang.

LONDON - A sense of magic and excitement was in the air in London's Leicester Square on Sunday as Harry Potter fans waited in the rain to greet cast members attending the premiere of the latest Potter film, "Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire." Producers describe the film - the fourth in the series about the bespectacled young wizard - as the darkest production yet; it is the first of the films so far to achieve a PG12 rating, meaning under 12s should not view it without adult supervision.

Scientists are to focus on a microscopic battle in the hope of making life-saving breakthroughs. They are to explore how bacteria and their arch enemy, phages, attack and counterattack in the battle for survival.