McConaughy gives first aid

Actor Matthew McConaughey played a real life hero at a screening of his new film Thirteen Conversations About One Thing at the Toronto International Film Festival.

According to the Toronto Sun newspaper, a woman in the audience collapsed as the result of a seizure but was resuscitated by the film star.

The mother of three, Janice Flisfeder, told the paper that she came round to a man stroking her hair and reassuring her: "It's okay, sweetheart."

McConaughy played down the incident on Saturday at a press conference to promote the film.

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Biggest sing-song record broken

Almost 49,000 people broke the world record for the biggest sing-song when they sang Buddy Holly's Peggy Sue at a football game on Saturday in Texas.

The sing-along concluded a four-day Buddy Holly symposium at the Texas Tech, which included seminars with members of The Crickets, Holly's band from 1954-58.

School officials are still waiting for the Guinness Book of Records to confirm their achievement, which should beat the previous record of 15,352 people singing together in Scotland two years ago.

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Backstreet Boy raises lupus awareness

Backstreet Boys star Howie D spent his weekend at the Children's Hospital in Boston, USA, to raise awareness of lupus, a disease that causes the immune system to attack the body's own tissue.

The singer's sister, Caroline, died of the disease, and he later founded the Dorough Lupus Foundation.

The Foundation works with Veritas medicine, which provides information on clinical trials and treatments online.

It hopes to make it easier for patients to take part in medical research.

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Actress Julie Bishop dies

The actress Julie Bishop, who began her career in the silent films era, died on 30 August of pneumonia, aged 87, it has been revealed.

She appeared in 84 films, her first being Children of Jazz in 1923.

Bishop, who also used the stage name Diane Duval and her birth name Jaqueline Wells, appeared with many famous actors including Humphrey Bogart, John Wayne and Roy Rogers.

Her last film was The Big Land starring Alan Ladd in 1957.

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Sir Paul's London poetry

Former Beatle Sir Paul McCartney is to take to the stage in the West End in London to read a selection of his poems in celebration of National Poetry Day.

It will be the first time that Sir Paul - who published an anthology of his poetry and lyrics earlier this year - will have read his work in London.

He has given three previous public readings of his poetry in New York, his hometown Liverpool and at the Hay-on-Wye literary festival in the Welsh border town.

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Giant sculpture greets library visitors

One of the largest bronze friezes ever cast has been craned into position at Oxford University's new £14 million Sackler Library.

The work of Scottish artist Alexander Stoddart, the five-ton classical frieze will greet visitors as they enter the courtyard of the new library.

The work is 36ft long and 6ft tall and is made to represent four library types - public, ancient, modern state library and the private.

It was created at the artist's studio in Paisley, Glasgow, before being transported to the Morris Singer Foundry in Hampshire for casting.