<strong>Adele has completed her Australian tour by breaking records and helping a couple get engaged</strong> The superstar singer performed eight shows in five cities and at her final stop, in Melbourne’s Etihad Stadium a record number of fans came to see her show - 77,300 fans came through the gate on Sunday night, beating the record she set the previous night by roughly 2,000. The night was also the scene of a happy moment when a pair of fans got engaged on stage. As well as performing to her adoring fans, she also paid a visit to Ramsay St the set of the long-running soap opera <em>Neighbours</em>. * The National Staff <strong>Karishma Tanna joins cast of Sanjay Dutt biopic</strong> Karishma Tanna has joined the cast of the Sanjay Dutt biopic currently being shot in Mumbai. Directed by Rajkumar Hirani the film will tell the story of the actor with Ranbir Kapoor playing the lead role. Tanna, an actress, model and anchor who is well known for her role in <em>Kyunki Saas Bhi Kabhi Bahu Thi, Naagarjuna – Ek Yodha </em>and also for participating in reality shows like <em>Bigg Boss</em> and <em>Jhalak Dikhhla Jaa</em> will play a love interest for Dutt in the new film, according to <em>The Times of India</em>. Sonam Kapoor, Anushka Sharma, Dia Mirza and Manisha Koirala are all also members of the cast * The National Staff <strong>Amitabh Bachchan spotted wearing neck brace</strong> Amitabh Bachchan was spotted wearing a neck brace, at Aishwarya Rai Bachchan’s father’s funeral and he says it’s due to a strained neck caused by stunts he did in his younger days. The 74-year-old thespian was photographed wearing a neck brace and has issued a statement on his blog. “Many have, yes, seen the picture with the neck brace and have expressed either exclamation or remedy, or surprise... It’s factual and it’s on my neck, because the neck is strained. These are recurrences of old action and stunt injuries right from the time of ‘Don’ and several other films that came after that have involved my physical movements for action deeds going horribly wrong,” Amitabh wrote. Bachchan said there were no safety devices during their times and things were “raw, real and injury-centric”. He added that artist doubles and computer graphic manipulation are “wonderful technological inventions”. * IANS <strong>Beauty and the Beast smashes box offices across the world</strong> <em>Beauty and the Beast</em> smashed box offices across the world on its opening weekend. It has taken a total of $350m globally with $170m at North American box offices alone and broke a load of records in the process. It had the biggest ever opening weekend for a PG-rated film, and notched up the seventh best opening overall, according to the BBC. The film easily outsold the rest of the top 10 combined - <em>Kong: Skull Island</em> was its closest competitor, taking $28.9m.<em> Beauty and the Beast </em>marks Disney's best opening for a live action remake yet - beating <em>The Jungle Book</em>, <em>Cinderella</em> and <em>Alice in Wonderland</em>. In the UK, the film earned £18.4m - the fifth biggest opening weekend ever. * The National Staff <strong>Sesame Street takes on autism</strong> Sesame Street has often experimented with new ways of teaching children social issues as well as their ABCs since its launch nearly 50 years ago. Now it's taking on a new challenge: autism. Agence France-Presse reports that the groundbreaking public television children's programme is introducing a new character, a muppet named Julia who has autism, the show's creators revealed on the CBS News show <em>60 Minutes</em> broadcast on Sunday (March 19). Diagnoses of autism have risen steadily in recent years to the rate of one in every 68 American children, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. But this is a bold move and one that is bound to have mixed reactions. * The National Staff
