TV charity party at Beckhams'

ITV1 is to screen an hour-long special filmed at a charity garden party at David and Victoria Beckham's Hertfordshire home on Sunday 19 May.

The Beckham's Charity World Cup Party will be broadcast at 2100 BST and will feature Sir Elton John, Ant and Dec, and The Spice Girls as well as the hosts.

The party's 400 guests will be surrounded by 60,000 imported orchids, tons of sushi, a specially constructed Japanese garden and a dress code of "white tie and diamonds".

Opera singer Russell Watson and soul singer Beverley Knight will perform at the event, which will earn the NSPCC an undisclosed six figure sum from ITV.

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Kafka library returns home

A replica of the personal library of Franz Kafka was presented in a ceremony to a literary society in the writer's native Prague.

Donated by Porsche, the collection consists of 1,000 books, magazines, almanacs and anthologies which replicate the materials Kafka owned before his death in 1924.

Porsche purchased the collection valued at 130,000 euros (£81,000) from a German antiques dealer who had spent years reconstructing it.

The ceremony saw the last piece, a copy of the first edition of Kafka's first published book, Reflections, handed over to the Franz Kafka Society.

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J-Lo 'set' for modern day opera

Singer and actress Jennifer Lopez is set to star in and produce an updated version of the opera classic Carmen, according to reports.

Variety newspaper reports a script has been written by Craig Pearce, Baz Luhrmann's screenwriting partner on Moulin Rouge, Romeo and Juliet and Strictly Ballroom.

Destiny's Child star Beyonce Knowles took the lead role in a hip-hop version of Bizet's enduring opera last year.

Lopez has previously starred in Out of Sight, The Cell and The Wedding Planner as well as scoring pop hits with Love Don't Cost a Thing and Play.

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Rooftop acrobat signs for Nike

David Belle - the star of the BBC's promo film Rush Hour - has signed a deal with Nike.

Belle garnered attention practising Le Parkour, a new "urban sport" in France involving assault course type stunts across rooftops.

Agent Jean-Pierre Bosson told BBC News Online the new Nike deal involved sponsorship by the trainer manufacturer as well as appearances in three "humorous" commercials in the US.

Belle - who appeared in Brian de Palma's Femme Fatale - is also said to be in negotiations with Fifth Element director Luc Besson over a possible role in an upcoming project.

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Stunt accident kills Russian actor

A Russian actor and director was killed when a stunt he was performing went wrong.

Andrei Rostotsky lost hold of a rope while filming One's Own Border, which he was directing and starring, and later died in hospital.

The 45-year-old had always preferred to do his own stunts during his career, which began in the 1970s.

He was the son of renowned director Stanislav who made films about Soviet life from World War II to the sweeping changes of perestroika.