● <B>JAPAN. ?Happy? Holmes says her love for Cruise is real. </B>One of Hollywood?s hottest couples may be having difficulty persuading the public their romance is genuine, but actress Katie Holmes says her love for screen star Tom Cruise is real. ?I couldn?t be happier. I?m so happy,? Holmes said on her way into the world premiere of her latest movie ?Batman Begins.? ?He?s the most amazing man in the whole world,? she told Reuters in Tokyo on Tuesday.

● <B>NEW YORK. Actor Christian Slater arrested for groping. </B>Actor Christian Slater was arrested on Tuesday and charged with sexual abuse and forcible touching after a woman accused him of groping her buttocks, authorities said. Slater, 35, was accused of groping the woman, a stranger, at a small store after he was seen arguing with his girlfriend, prosecutors said. The victim called police and identified the actor, who was arrested shortly after 2 am in Manhattan?s Upper East Side, they said.

● <B>CALIFORNIA. Michael Jackson jury could get case by Friday. </B>The jury could begin deliberating in the Michael Jackson child molestation trial by the end of the week, a judge said, following instructions on the law and closing arguments by attorneys for both sides. Superior Court Judge Rodney Melville, who spent the day working on jury instructions with prosecutors and defense lawyers with jurors and Jackson absent, said he wanted to hand the case over to the eight-woman, four-man panel by Friday afternoon.

● <B>CUBA. Documentary shows Castro as young rebel. </B>How did a well-to-do country boy with a conservative education called Fidel Castro turn into a fearless rebel and enduring leader of one of the world?s last Marxist states? For Finnish documentary-maker Folke West, granted rare access to early Cuban state archives, the answer lies in Castro?s formative years, long before he became a Communist.

● <B>GREECE. Paris Hilton engaged to Paris. </B>Ubiquitous socialite Paris Hilton is engaged to marry her boyfriend of five months, Greek shipping heir Paris Latsis, People magazine reported on its Web site on Monday. ?They are happy and excited,? Hilton?s spokesman, Rob Shuter, was quoted as telling the magazine. It said that Latsis proposed last Wednesday and that no date has been set for the wedding.

● <B>GERMANY. Lindbergh had 7 secret children. </B> American aviator Charles Lindbergh had three German mistresses simultaneously and seven secret children whom he visited and supported for decades, according to a new book published on Monday. Eighteen months after genetic tests proved earlier claims by three Germans that Lindbergh was their father, their book called ?The Double Life of Charles A. Lindbergh? says he fathered two more children with their aunt and two with his German secretary.