Entertainment
Rapper Tinie Tempah leads the way in the nominations for this year's Mobo Awards in Liverpool with four nods.
An explosive EastEnders storyline which could see the end of Peggy Mitchell, played by Barbara Windsor, begins on Thursday.
A former bodyguard for Britney Spears files a sexual harassment lawsuit against the pop star.
Former newspaper editor and Britain's Got Talent judge Piers will replace US TV presenter Larry King on the US network CNN, it is announced.
Music, computer games and book retailer HMV says that its sales were disrupted this summer by the football World Cup.
Works by Joan Miro will be displayed at the Tate Modern, the first time a major retrospective of the artist has been held in nearly 50 years.
A judge more than doubles an award made by a jury to Don Johnson over profits owed from a TV show to $51.2m (33.2m).
No decisions have been taken about possible funding cuts to the BBC World Service, Culture Secretary Jeremy Hunt says.
The group behind the Merchant Hotel in Belfast has won planning approval for a landmark traditional music centre in the city's Cathedral Quarter.
Rugby player Gavin Henson, magician Paul Daniels and former Destiny's Child star Michelle Williams are among the line-up for Strictly Come Dancing.
A book that sold for a record-breaking price of $8.8m (5.7m) a decade ago is to go back under the hammer at Sotheby's.
Patients could be prescribed music tailored to their needs as a result of new university research.
Thousands of photographs taken by playwright George Bernard Shaw are to be posted online, the National Trust announces.
The trustees of Belvoir Castle hope to safeguard its future by selling a painting by the French artist Poussin.
Australian author Peter Carey, who has already won the Man Booker prize twice, has made the shortlist for this year's prize.
Horror movie The Last Exorcism debuts at the top of the UK and Ireland box office, taking 1.1m in its opening weekend.
Chinese actress Zhang Ziyi is to team up with Speed director Jan de Bont to make an English-language version of the Chinese legend Mulan.
A fungus that 'eats' cine film threatens to irreversibly damage important film archive and record of British social history.
Prize win sees the xx step into the spotlight
Sir Paul McCartney is to be presented with a Kennedy Center honour at the White House in Washington in December.