Kate Beckinsale, Lily Allen and the Spice Girls picked up awards at the Glamour Women of the Year awards on Tuesday night.

Dying is easy, comedy is hard, as the saying goes. A comedy about dying, especially a British farce, requires a specifically light, deft touch, which director Frank Oz achieves only about half the time in ''Death at a Funeral.''

At Switzerland's Locarno International Film Festival Anthony Hopkins has won an award for his directing and acting talents. The star was awarded for his work as director of Slipstream, in which he also starred as a tormented German writer.

British actress/singer Minnie Driver has joined the ranks of Angelina Jolie, Keeley Hawes and Rhona Mitra by becoming videogame vixen Lara Croft. Driver will lend her voice to the Tomb Raider heroine for a new online animated series called Re/Visioned on the Gametap.com website.

Actress Jessica Alba is the sexiest woman in the world, according to a new poll. Alba beat Eva Longoria, Angelina Jolie and Scarlett Johansson to the top spot. Keira Knightley dropped out of the top ten after being crowned the winner last year in the vote by British men's magazine, FHM.

Keira Knightley has been voted the sexiest woman in the world. The 21-year-old beauty - who shot to fame in British film Bend it Like Beckham - topped the annual poll, conducted by FHM magazine. Top 10 Below!