Pop composers Neil Sedaka and Don Black launch a songwriting contest to find a new rock 'n' roll track for musical Dreamboats and Petticoats.

A 1949 painting of a football match, by LS Lowry, is expected to fetch between £3.5m and £4.5m at auction in May.

A portrait of the muse who transformed painter Pablo Picasso's life and art is to go under the hammer at Sotheby's in London next week.

Mother and daughter act Eliza Carthy and Norma Waterson scoop two prizes at the BBC Radio 2 Folk awards.

Organisers of the Booker prize, for which Dame Beryl Bainbridge was shortlisted five times, launch a vote to find her best nominated book.

Initial post-mortem results have indicated that Belfast-born musician Gary Moore died from a heart attack.

Sunday's Super Bowl breaks the record for the biggest US television audience for a single broadcast.

The trial of Michael Jackson's doctor, Conrad Murray, can be televised as long as cameras do not interfere with proceedings, a judge rules.