Humanitarian honour for Eastwood

Film star Clint Eastwood is to receive an humanitarian award from the Motion Picture Association of America (MPAA).

The 76-year-old will be the first ever recipient of the prize, to be presented in Washington next week.
MPAA chairman Dan Glickman said the Dirty Harry star had "for decades" exemplified "decency and goodness of spirit in his moviemaking".
Eastwood's recent film Letters from Iwo Jima is in the running for four awards at the Oscars later this month.
The movie is a Japanese-language companion piece to the director's other film of 2006, Flags of Our Fathers.
Both focus on the battle for the island of Iwo Jima in 1945, which left 21,000 Japanese and 6,800 US soldiers dead in a single month.
"These films exemplify the true power of movies to tell human stories and inspire national conversation," said Glickman.
The Jack Valenti Humanitarian Award is named after the MPAA's long-time chief, who helped choose Eastwood as its inaugural recipient.

Iconic actor

Born in 1930 in San Francisco, Eastwood first came to prominence as Rowdy Yates in TV western series Rawhide.
This led to him being cast as "the man with no name" in three spaghetti westerns directed by legendary Italian film-maker Sergio Leone.
He became an acting icon in the 1970s, winning particular praise for his portrayal of a tough-guy police detective in Dirty Harry.
Eastwood never picked up an Oscar for his film roles, but he has twice won best director and best picture in the same year - for Unforgiven in 1993 and Million Dollar Baby in 2005.
He could repeat the feat at this year's Academy Awards, which take place in Los Angeles on 25 February.