A portrait by Gainsborough which hangs in a Northumberland country house could have been re-worked by his rival, it emerges.

Scots singer KT Tunstall will be among the headline acts at this year's Hebridean Celtic Festival.

The dance act call it quits after 15 years together, saying their current tour is a goodbye to fans.

Murder-mystery Heavy Rain picks up three video game Baftas, but Mass Effect 2 takes the best game title at the industry's premier awards ceremony.

A memoir by Jermaine Jackson about his brother, Michael, will offer "the truth as we know it" when it comes out in the autumn, its publishers announce.

Dennis the Menace, the longest-running Beano character, is now eligible for his free bus pass after turning 60.

The head of Russia's world-famous Bolshoi ballet troupe resigns after an erotic photo scandal.

Jodie Foster has said she had "no regrets" about casting troubled actor Mel Gibson as the lead in her latest film, The Beaver.