The perils of being John Malkovich

Actor John Malkovich helped save the life of a man bleeding severely on the street in Toronto on Saturday, according to media reports in Canada.

Expensive TV adverts are not swaying US voters, so perhaps the politicians should hold an old-fashioned beefsteak, writes Gary Silverman

The trustee liquidating Madoff's firm in the wake of the biggest U.S. Ponzi scheme had approved a claim for $670,000. He said Malkovich wasn't entitled to more than what the actor had deposited. Actor John Malkovich is seeking to recover $2.3 million from an account he had with the securities firm of Bernard Madoff, who conducted the biggest Ponzi scheme in U.S.

Earlier today the fifth consecutive round of presidential voting in Italy failed to produce the sufficient majority for the country to elect a president courtesy of its fractured political system, especially following the announcement last night from the PD's leader Pier Luigi Bersani that he would quit his post after a president is elected.  More than 440 blank ballots were cast in the fifth ballot today, with the leading vote-getter Stefano Rodota -- the candidate of Beppe Grillo’s 5 Star Move

The leaders of Britain’s three main political parties criss-cross the country in a last-minute scramble suggesting that millions remain undecided how to vote

For the second time in two years, Hollywood actor John Malkovich appears on the Vienna stage as an egocentric womaniser... but this time in an opera, where he gets to show off his singing chops.In "The Giacomo Variations," an opera-cum-play which had its world premiere Wednesday evening at Vienna's Ronacher theatre, Malkovich plays an ageing Casanova searching for the meaning of life."It's a genre between genres," writer and director Michael Sturminger told AFP ahead of the premiere.

John Malkovich, the actor, is seeking to recover $2.3 million from an account he had with the securities firm of Bernard L. Madoff.