One Olympic ring failed to unfurl but President Vladmir Putin nonetheless declared Russia’s Winter Games open under a burst of fireworks.
JK Rowling has taken a step into the unknown with the publication of her debut adult novel "The Casual Vacancy".
Pieta, an ultra-violent story of a loan shark confronted by a woman claiming to be his mother, has won the Golden Lion at the Venice film festival.
Comedy will dominate the opening of the Cannes film festival, with Wes Anderson’s Moonrise Kingdom and Sacha Baron Cohen’s anarchic General Aladeen.
The biggest awards night in British music honoured artists often left out of other international ceremonies.
Prince Charles has led celebrations marking the 200th anniversary of the birth of Charles Dickens, one of English literature’s most revered novelists.
<i>The Artist</i> led Bafta nominations on Tuesday picking up 12, one ahead of British Cold War-era spy movie <i>Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy</i>.
Lady Gaga was the big winner at last night’s MTV Europe Music Awards, while Justin Bieber brushed off allegations that he had fathered a fan’s child.
English author Julian Barnes has finally won the Man Booker Prize for fiction, despite once dismissing the coveted award as "posh bingo".
British artist Richard Hamilton, designer of The Beatles’ <i>White Album</i> and regarded by many as the father of pop art, has died at the age of 89.
Toxicology tests showed there were no illegal substances in British singer Amy Winehouse’s system when she died last month aged 27.
The final edition of the newspaper engulfed in a phone-hacking scandal was published on Sunday as Rupert Murdoch headed to London.
Thousands of fans braved rain in Trafalgar Square on Thursday to say farewell to the boy wizard Harry Potter at the world premiere of the final film.
A hundred thousand people braved rain, cold and mud to see Irish rockers U2 at Glastonbury on Friday in their first appearance at the famous festival.
Author John le Carre will remain on the Booker nomination list, despite requesting that his name be removed.
British author Howard Jacobson won the Man Booker Prize on Tuesday for <em>The Finkler Question</em>, the first comic novel to scoop the awards.
Fred Khumalo says his right to information was trampled upon when the SABC crumbled under pressure and canned a mini-series on the dangers of circumcision.
