Animated 3D comedy Cloudy With A Chance Of Meatballs has topped the North American box office in its opening weekend, taking $30.1m (£18.6m).

It easily beat The Informant! - starring Matt Damon as a whistle blower with bipolar disorder - which opened in second with $10.5m (£6.5m).

Last week’s number one, Tyler Perry’s I Can Do Bad All By Myself, was in third place, taking $10m (£6.2m).

Jennifer Aniston romantic comedy Love Happens opened in fourth place.

NORTH AMERICAN BOX OFFICE TOP 10 1. Cloudy With A Chance Of Meatballs - $30.1m 2. The Informant! - $10.5m 3. I Can Do Bad All By Myself - $10m 4. Love Happens - $8.5m 5. Jennifer’s Body - $6.8m Source: Hollywood.com

The film, co-starring Aaron Eckhart, took $8.5m (£5.3m).

The top five was rounded out by horror film Jennifer’s Body - also on its opening weekend - with $6.8m (£4.2m).

The film, penned by Diablo Cody - the Oscar-winning writer of Juno writer, stars Megan Fox as a possessed rock fan.

Cloudy With A Chance Of Meatballs was adapted from a 1978 children’s book of the same name by Judi and Ron Barrett.

It tells the story of a town where the weather comes in the form of food and drink and features the voices of Bruce Campbell, James Caan and Mr T.

Animated film 9 dropped to number six from last week’s number two, taking $5.5m (£3.4m), while Quentin Tarantino’s Inglourious Basterds slipped four places to number seven with $3.6m (£2.2m).

All About Steve slipped from four to eight, Sorority dropped three places to number nine and The Final Destination dropped five places to number 10.

One of the greatest rivalries in the history of chess is due to resume as Garry Kasparov takes on Anatoly Karpov in the Spanish city of Valencia.

The 12-game rematch takes place 25 years after the two chess legends first competed for the world title.

That epic, gruelling encounter lasted five months in Moscow, before being called off without a clear winner.

Kasparov went on to snatch the world crown from Karpov in 1985 and then defended his title the following year.

‘Ceremonial tournament’

The five-day match in Valencia will be held on 21-25 September. It will be played under strict time limits.

The event will be broadcast live on Valencia’s regional government website (www.gva.es), with organisers expecting millions of chess fans to tune in.

EPIC 1984 FACE-OFF Games 1-9 - Karpov races to 4-0 lead Games 10-26 - draws Game 27 - Karpov leads 5-0 Games 28-31 - draws Game 32 - first Kasparov win Games 33-46 - draws Games 47-48 - Kasparov makes score 5-3 Match terminated - no winner

Kasparov, now aged 46, has been preparing for the clash by training in Norway with teenage prodigy Magnus Carlsen.

Kasparov has described the match as “a ceremonial tournament”.

Meanwhile, Karpov, 58, has been sparring with a computer and a group of grandmasters from a base on the Spanish coast.

The Valencia tournament comes 25 years after the two grandmasters - then both representing the Soviet Union - squared off for the first time for the world crown.

Kasparov, now one of Russia’s opposition leaders, was only 21 when he took on Karpov, then aged 33, in the 1984 match.

Karpov raced to a 4-0 lead after nine games in the “first to six wins” match, with some experts predicting a 6-0 whitewash.

But Kasparov battled on, drawing the next 17 games. He lost game 27, but - after another series of draws - claimed his first victory in game 32.

Kasparov eventually managed to close the gap to 5-3, before the duel was controversially stopped by the then Fide (World Chess Federation) boss Florencio Campomanes on alleged health grounds.

The decision was taken despite both players saying they wanted to continue.

In the 1985 rematch, Kasparov beat Karpov, becoming the youngest world champion and heralding a new era in chess.

In 1993, Kasparov broke away from the Fide to form the Professional Chess Association and play English master Nigel Short for the world title, claiming his hand was forced by corruption and mismanagement. He was beaten for the world championship by Vladimir Kramnik in 2000.

Karpov was Fide world champion from 1993 to 1999.

The chess world title was only unified in 2006.

Havana has hosted the biggest open-air concert since the 1959 revolution, featuring some 15 top Latin American, Spanish and Cuban performers.

An estimated one million people - many wearing white - attended the free event in Revolution Square, Havana.

Colombian singer Juanes, who organised the Peace without Borders concert, received death threats from Miami-based critics of the Cuban regime.

But he had the support from 20 high-profile jailed dissidents inside Cuba.

The BBC’s Michael Voss, who was at the five-and-a-half hour concert, said there was a mood of excitement as many residents of the isolated, music-loving island had never seen anything like it before.

He said people had travelled from across the island to attend.

But our reporter said heat was a problem, with many people being carried away on stretchers after fainting.

“We are here for the music and it is a message of peace and unity, not only for Cuba, but for the entire region,” said Latin Grammy winner Juanes.

Among the other artists taking part on Sunday were Spain’s Miguel Bose, Olga Tanon from Puerto Rico, the Cuban performers Silvio Rodriguez and Los Van Van.

“Together, we are going to make history,” said Tanon, as she opened the concert with the love song, Es Mentiroso Ese Hombre (That Man is a Liar).

“It was really complicated to get here but I just couldn’t miss it,” a Havana resident, Maria Antonia, who was in a wheelchair, told BBC Mundo.

“We are going to stay as long as we have the strength,” Cristina Rodriguez, a 43-year-old nurse who came with her teenage son, Felix, told AP.

‘Farce’

While critics have complained that Juanes is endorsing the island’s communist system, the dissidents say the concert is an opportunity for reconciliation.

In pictures: Cuban peace concert

Juanes said the show was about peace and tolerance, not politics, telling the audience that “the important thing is to swap hate for love”.

But at the end of the show, he caused some surprise by shouting “Cuba libre!” (Free Cuba!) and “One Cuban family”, slogans associated with the Cuban exile community.

In Miami, where the concert was broadcast by Spanish language TV stations, there were protests among some Cuban-Americans, with one group crushing Juanes CDs using a small steamroller.

“There has been a lot of blood spilled in Cuba and people executed by firing squad,” said 77-year-old Hernan Gonzalez, who said he spent six years in a Cuban prison for his opposition to Fidel Castro in the 1960s.

“He [Juanes] is singing over dead bodies.”

Ninoska Perez, spokeswoman for the Cuban Liberty Council, told BBC Mundo: “It’s a farce… that overlooks Cuban reality by conveniently describing it as ‘an apolitical concert’.”

The location of the Havana concert was highly symbolic.

The headquarters of the communist party is in Revolution Square, along with a giant metal sculpture of Che Guevara’s head.

The square was used by Fidel Castro to give five-hour speeches, and is also where Pope John Paul II celebrate a historic open air Mass in 1998.

Speaking in an interview broadcast on Sunday, US President Barack Obama said he understood Juanes to be a “terrific musician”, but he was cautious about the impact of the concert.

“I certainly don’t think it hurts US-Cuban relations,” he said.

“These kinds of cultural exchanges - I wouldn’t overstate the degree that it helps.”

Mad Men, the period show about the advertising industry, has won an Emmy for best TV drama for the second year running, at a ceremony in Los Angeles.

In the comedy section, 30 Rock, a series about a fictional TV programme, won its third trophy in as many years.

The BBC’s Little Dorrit took the most awards, winning seven categories.

Glenn Close won lead actress in a drama series for her role in Damages, while best actor in a drama series went to Bryan Cranston for Breaking Bad.

Little Dorrit’s award haul included best mini-series, best art direction, costumes and cinematography.

“We are thrilled that Little Dorrit has gone down so well this side of the Atlantic,” executive producer Anne Pivcevic said.

The BBC’s Peter Bowes in Los Angeles said Mad Men, the drama category winner, has attracted a small audience but is a favourite of the critics.

Our correspondent said the awards ceremony was a relatively low key show, reflecting what has been a difficult year in the television industry.

It was left to the star of The Office, Ricky Gervais, to lighten the mood as he claimed the awards ceremony was his favourite.

“The thing about Oscars and the Golden Globes is they’ve got film stars there,” he said.

Glenn Close won for her role in Damages for a second year

“With their jaw lines and chiselled looks, making me feel bad. But in this room, I’m probably above average.”

In other awards, Australian actress Toni Colette won the Emmy for leading actress in a comedy series for her role in United States of Tara, while Alec Baldwin scooped the men’s category for his role in 30 Rock.

Tina Fey failed to win best actress for 30 Rock, but she was honoured for her Sarah Palin impersonation.

Irish actor Brendan Gleeson won an Emmy for outstanding lead actor in a mini-series or movie for his role as Winston Churchill in Into The Storm.

Kristin Chenoweth won the best supporting comedy actress, one of four awards for Pushing Daisies.

But the show has now been cancelled.

Toni Collette won for United States of Tara

“I’m not employed now so I’d like to be on Mad Men. I also like The Office and 24,” she joked as she collected her award.

Jon Cryer won best supporting comedy actor for Two and a Half Men.

“I used to think that awards were just shallow tokens of momentary popularity, but now I realise they are the only true measure of a person’s worth as a human being,” quipped Cryer.

TV movie Grey Gardens starring Jessica Lange picked up six awards including best television film.

Our correspondent said the ceremony devoted a significant amount of time to reality television, one of the fastest growing genres in entertainment.

A teenage girl was subjected to a “horrifying” rape as she walked through the west end of Glasgow in the early hours of the morning.

The 17-year-old was grabbed from behind as she walked along Bank Street at 0300 GMT on Sunday, before being forced into a doorway and raped.

She did not require hospital treatment, but was said to have been “very traumatised” by her ordeal.

The suspect ran off across Great Western Road towards Belmont Lane.

He was described as being well tanned, possibly European, aged in his mid 30s and did not speak with a local accent.

He was about 5ft 8in tall, with a slim build, dark eyes, shaved dark hair and wearing a black hooded top and dark jeans.

Det Sgt Charlie Craig said: “This was a horrifying attack on a local young woman.

“I will do all I can to ensure this person is caught and I would urge anyone who was in the general area of Bank Street or Great Western Road in the early hours of Sunday 20 September and saw this attack to come forward.

“I would also appeal to anyone who recognises the description of the suspect to get in touch.”

An Australian quadriplegic, who last month won a landmark legal right to starve to death, has died.

Christian Rossiter, 49, died in a nursing home in Perth, West Australia, after developing a chest infection.

A former outdoor adventurer, he had won a legal battle to ask his carers not to give him food or water.

His case strengthened advocates of assisted suicide, in the week when Britain’s top legal officer is to issue new guidelines on the issue.

“I thank all those who have made Christian’s life, in his final years, as comfortable and as dignified as possible,” his brother Tim said.

Lawyer John Hammond, who five weeks ago won a court battle that allowed Christian Rossiter to refuse food and water, said his passing would have come as a “relief”.

“I think Christian will be remembered as someone who was very brave and took up a fight which will give a lot of people comfort,” Mr Hammond told local television.

“Essentially he won the right to refuse food and medication so he could die if he wanted to,” he said.

Western Australia’s chief judge Wayne Martin said Mr Rossiter had the right to direct his own treatment and that his carers, Brightwater Care Group, would not be criminally responsible if it complied with his wishes.

Mr Rossiter had asked the Brightwater Care Group at least 40 times to stop feeding and hydrating him through a tube to his stomach before he went to court to end a life he described as a “living hell”.

“I’m Christian Rossiter and I’d like to die. I am a prisoner in my own body. I can’t move,” he told reporters. “I have no fear of death - just pain. I only fear pain.”

Voluntary euthanasia or assisted suicide is illegal in Australia and Britain, but Britain will this week clarify when a person will and will not be prosecuted for assisting suicide.

In 1996, Australia’s outback Northern Territory introduced the world’s first voluntary euthanasia laws.

Four people used the laws to die by injection administered via a computer before the national government overturned the legislation in 1997.