Washington, January 28 : American filmmakers Spike Lee and Tyler Perry have been nominated for the NAACP Image Awards.

They were leading the pack when the civil rights organisation announced the nominations in three directing categories on Tuesday.

Lee has been nominated for best motion picture director with Miracle of St. Anna.

Other strong contenders for the award are Perry (The Family That Preys), Darnell Martin (Cadillac Records), Gina Prince Bythewood (The Secret Life of Bees) and Patrik Ian Polk (Noah''s Arc: Jumping the Broom).

Los Angeles  - US rocker Bruce Springsteen will start his world tour on April 1 in San Jose California he announced Tuesday on his website.

Playing with his longtime partners the E-Street Band, Springsteen will play in Los Angeles, Chicago and other US cities before moving to Europe on May 30 for shows in the Netherlands, Finland, Sweden, Norway, Germany, Austria, Denmark, Ireland, France, Italy and Spain.

Washington, January 28 : British actress Kate Winslet has revealed that her two children would be baffled by her German accent when she read them bedtime stories, while practicing for her new film `The Reader'.

The Golden Globe Award-winning and Oscar nominated 2008 drama film features her as a Nazi concentration camp guard.

Winslet wanted to perfect her accent for the film, and thus she used it in her everyday life.

However, she revealed, her kids-Mia, 8, by ex-husband Jim Threapleton, and Joe, 5, with current partner Sam Mendes-were confused as to why their mother was speaking in a German accent.

Melbourne, January 28 : The Australian Defence Force has compensated TV celebrity Tania Zaetta for damaging allegations that she had sex with Special Forces soldiers while entertaining troops in Afghanistan.

Defence Minister Joel Fitzgibbon received a document making the allegations in May last year, but later they turned out to be untrue.

A Defence statement revealed that ADF chief Angus Houston met with Zaetta on Tuesday to personally apologise to her and her family "for any hurt and distress they may have suffered."

Washington, January 28: The medical document by which a paramedic was allegedly trying to blackmail John Travolta, demanding 25 million dollars, has been rendered worthless by the Bahamas officials.

It was suggested that an ambulance driver and a high-ranking Bahamian official teamed up in an attempt to extort money from Travolta and his wife over information related to their 16-year-old son''s death.

Cops had hauled in driver Tarino Lightbourne on January 23 and charged him with conspiracy to commit extortion and attempted extortion.

London, January 28 : Movie buffs can now get information as to which film is being shown at which cinema hall on a new website.

Internet users can search for movies as well as where and how they can be watched on the findanyfilm. com.

The website also gives cinema listings, DVD sale and rental options, and suggests legal download sites.

More than 30,000 films-including action movies, thrillers, classics, and Bollywood hits-are said to be part of the catalogue.