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Desperate Housewives’ star Eva Longoria is no longer a wife. After a dramatic saga that played out over the fall and winter, Tony Parker and Eva Longoria have officially ended their marriage, reports TMZ. The marriage was dissolved in Texas over the weekend. “The divorce documents will come through today, she is happy and moving forward with her life,” the magazine’s source said on Friday. This closes the three year marriage that ended in allegations of cheating, and then accusations of inattention on both sides. Parker was allegedly caught sending lurid text messages with Erin Barry, the now ex-wife of his former teammate Brent Barry. Parker denied those allegations, and opened up about the difficulties of the divorce to a French newspaper earlier in January. While Parker mourns and concentrates on basketball, Longoria seems to have moved on, having been seen with Penelope Cruz’s younger brother Eduardo. It was at least a somewhat amicable split, as Parker and Longoria were seen meeting for lunch on multiple occasions.(HuffPost)

Spending too much time in front of the TV or computer is hindering the development of children’s speech, new research suggests. One in six parents believes too much time screen time is a major contributor to increasing communication problems that affect more than a million children in the UK. More than half (51 per cent) of those questioned think youngsters can suffer from speech problems if their parents do not talk to them enough.  The findings are contained in a survey of 6,000 people, including 3,000 parents, conducted by the Communication Trust to mark the launch of the Hello campaign – the national year of communication. It found that 16 per cent of adults, and 17 per cent of parents, believe too much time in front of screens is one of the most common causes of speech, language and communication needs. One in three parents said they had been, or were concerned, about their child’s communication skills.

If you’ve just fought your way through the commuter crush with debt on your mind and the cold nipping at your fingers, you may be surprised to learn that today is the happiest day of the year. Two weeks after Blue Monday, the day when our spirits are at their lowest because of post-Christmas debt and limited daylight, comes Happy Monday – as good as it’s going to get all year. Psychologists say a combination of getting the first pay cheque of the year and booking your summer holiday make today the highpoint of the year. ‘We all go into work on that Monday – January 31 – with renewed vigour, buoyed by the excitement of having money in the bank again and having one of the major family events of the year – the annual summer holiday – to look forward to.’  The last weekend in January was the busiest on record for the travel industry in 2010.‘We each experience an average of ten major happy days every year but none is happier than January 31, or Happy Monday,’ said Dr David Holmes, senior psychologist at Manchester Metropolitan University. Holiday firm Thomson Al Fresco saw a 56 per cent increase in bookings year on year, and said they were expecting even brisker trade this year than last. Read more: Mail Online

Fast food chain Taco Bell is launching a counterstrike against a lawsuit that claims its products contain around 30 per cent beef. The chain paid for newspaper advertisements in the Wall Street Journal, USA Today and New York Times – among other papers – and the President of the company made a 70-second address posted on Youtube. Under the headline ‘Thank you for suing us’, the newspaper ads outline the meat’s ingredients – falling short of the 100 per cent beef mark but a lot better than the 35 per cent claimed by the suit’s lawyers. The class-action lawsuit – which has become known as the ‘Where’s the beef’ suit -  was filed late last week in federal court in California. A Santa Ana woman said the chain falsely advertised its products as “beef”, when in actual fact the products contained a meat mixture that also includes agents and preservatives that do not meet requirements set by the U.S. Department of Agriculture. Taco Bell quickly denied the accusation, and it’s president Greg Creed branded the suit ‘bogus and filled with completely inaccurate facts’. But the newspaper ads show a sensitivity to criticism, and are an all-out attempt by the firm to keep its image intact. Read more: Mail Online

Julian Assange dressed up as a lady and had poor personal hygiene his media collaborators revealed as they turned on him in new books published today. The WikiLeaks founder was so worried that he was being followed by U.S. intelligence services that he disguised himself as a woman. The 6ft 2in 39-year-old donned a wig as he tried to get away from people he thought were following him. Journalists he worked with would use special mobile phones to talk to him which they would quickly dispose of to avoid their calls being monitored. The astonishing story of the steps Assange took to evade security services – and his at times bizarre and erratic behaviour were revealed today in the two new titles His media collaborators the New York Times and The Guardian have both revealed all about their remarkable – and at times clandestine – interactions with the mercurial Australian. In the new title WikiLeaks: Inside Assange’s War on Secrecy it is described ‘how Assange said U.S. informants deserve to be killed,’ The Guardian said. Simultaneously the New York Times have published their own e-book which brands the WikiLeaks founder ‘smelly’ and a ‘freak’. Open Secrets: WikiLeaks, War and American Diplomacy says the erratic man has ‘a bit of Peter Pan in him’. Journalists who have dealt with Assange claimed he skips around like a child at times, doesn’t always wash and is both sensitive and volatile. Bill Keller, executive editor of the New York Times, revealed that one reporter told him that Assange’s behaviour had been very strange. ‘He was alert but dishevelled, like a bag lady walking in off the street, wearing a dingy, light-coloured sport coat and cargo pants, dirty white shirt, beat-up sneakers and filthy white socks that collapsed around his ankles,’ he wrote. ‘He smelled as if he hadn’t bathed for days.’Read more: Daily Mail

NEW YORK (AP) — The Anthony Hopkins horror film “The Rite” topped the box office on a weekend notable for the bump many Oscar-nominated films received, according to studio estimates Sunday. The Warner Bros. flick earned $15 million from just under 3,000 theaters. The PG-13, “Exorcist”-influenced movie drew most of its audience from the older-than-25 demographic. In its 10th week of release, the Weinstein Company’s “The King’s Speech” earned $11.1 million while adding nearly 900 screens. Now with a cumulative box-office haul of $72.2 million, the story of King George VI’s triumph over his stuttering affliction continues to build momentum as the Oscar favorite for best picture. It led with 12 Oscar nominations on Tuesday, and its director, Tom Hooper, won best director from the Directors Guild on Saturday.

Egypt’s most prominent democracy advocate took up a bullhorn Sunday and called for President Hosni Mubarak to resign, speaking to thousands of protesters who defied a curfew for a third night. Fighter jets streaked low overhead and police returned to the capital’s streets — high-profile displays of authority over a situation spiraling out of control. Nobel Peace laureate Mohamed ElBaradei’s appearance in Tahrir, or Liberation, Square underscored the jockeying for leadership of the mass protest movement that erupted seemingly out of nowhere in the past week to shake the Arab world’s most populous nation. Now in their sixth day, the protests have come to be centered in the square, where demonstrators have camped since Friday. Up to 10,000 protesters gathered there Sunday, and even after the 4 p.m. curfew, they numbered in the thousands, including families with young children, addressing Mubarak with their chants of “Leave, leave, leave.” “You are the owners of this revolution. You are the future,” ElBaradei told the crowd after nightfall. “Our essential demand is the departure of the regime and the beginning of a new Egypt in which every Egyptian lives in virtue, freedom and dignity.”(MSNBC)

Super Bowl XLV will be the 45th annual edition of the Super Bowl in American football, and the 41st annual championship game of the modern-era National Football League (NFL). The game, to be played on February 6, 2011, will pit the AFC champion Pittsburgh Steelers against the NFC champion Green Bay Packers to decide the NFL champion for the 2010 season. The game will be held at Cowboys Stadium in Arlington, Texas, the first time that the Super Bowl will be held in the Dallas–Fort Worth area; and the third time it will be held in Texas (Houston was the host city to Super Bowls VIII and XXXVIII).