Cruise believes in aliens

Hollywood actor Tom Cruise not only battles creatures from outer space in his latest film War of the Worlds, he also believes aliens really exist, he told a German newspaper.

Asked in an interview with the tabloid daily Bild whether he believed in aliens, Cruise said: "Yes, of course. Are you really so arrogant as to believe we are alone in this universe?

"Millions of stars, and we're supposed to be the only living creatures? No, there are many things out there, we just don't know," said the 42-year-old.

Cruise's film War of the Worlds, directed by Steven Spielberg, is based on H.G. Wells' 1898 story of the invasion of Earth by Martians.