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Here is a round-up of this week's U.S. celebrity magazines People, Us Weekly, Life & Style, OK! and In Touch.

The annual NME music awards, chosen by the magazine's readers, were announced on Thursday.
Following were the main winners:

Sheffield rockers the Arctic Monkeys dominated the NME music awards on Thursday by scooping the best British band, best track and best video prizes.

Billionaire Harry Potter author J.K. Rowling would feel "exploited" if a fan's unofficial encyclopedic companion to the boy wizard series was published, she said in court papers made public on Thursday.

Women on bended knees, commitment-shy men and very long odds on a royal proposal will top Leap Year 2008 antics on Friday.

Singer Boy George appeared in a London court on Thursday to deny charges that he falsely imprisoned a male escort.

Alessandra Facchinetti debuted in what is arguably the toughest job in fashion on Thursday presenting her first collection for Valentino since the maestro couturier retired in January after 45 years.

Comedian Will Ferrell is a huge box office draw in movies like "Talladega Nights: The Ballad of Ricky Bobby," but well before that, the 40-year-old played basketball in high school and was a sports announcer -- kind of.

Jay Leno has nearly two years left on the clock at "The Tonight Show" on NBC, but rival networks and at least one TV studio are said to be quietly, unofficially courting the comedian with offers to keep him on the late-night circuit.

Luke stands on his seat and strums wildly on his copycat rock guitar. Isabel and Jasper pogo and body slam with the best of them in the mosh pit. Potential crowd surfers and stage divers are held back by minders.

Drummer Buddy Miles, who played with Jimi Hendrix in his short-lived group, Band of Gypsys, died at his home in Austin, Texas on Tuesday, his publicist said.

The generation gap was on show at Paris Fashion Week on Wednesday with collections from Esteban Cortazar, the 23-year-old new designer at Emanuel Ungaro, and Karl Lagerfeld, the 74-year-old maestro of French fashion.

With three of Toronto's top restaurants, a catering company, reality show and gourmet grocery store in the works, Mark McEwan is the closest thing Canada has to a rock-star chef and restaurateur.

Reese Witherspoon has won a best actress Oscar and is among Hollywood's A-list actors, but for her latest film "Penelope," the global star took a small supporting role so she could focus on a new job -- producer.

The attorney who claims to represent troubled pop star Britney Spears in the legal wrangling over control of her affairs vowed on Wednesday to continue his fight, one day after a federal judge ruled he is not the singer's lawyer.

The digital revolution might be making it harder for record labels and retailers to make money out of music, but the decline in album sales has spawned a new type of investment that is attracting fans and investment banker types alike.

British naturalist Charles Darwin waited almost 20 years to publish his groundbreaking book on the theory of evolution partly because he was afraid of upsetting his devoutly Christian wife.

The Mughal-era romance of Emperor Akbar and his Rajput consort, brought to life by filmmaker Ashutosh Gowariker, wooed audiences with its epic tale of love transcending barriers.

Be it the Bhuvan of "Lagaan" or the Mohan of "Swades", the protagonists in Ashutosh Gowariker's films love their motherland and "Jodhaa Akbar" promises to be no different.

An animated version of Tamil superstar Rajinikanth is set to wow fans in a 3-D film that features him in the role of an armour-clad warrior -- with a whole new set of his trademark mannerisms.