A portrait of Downton Abbey creator Julian Fellowes painted by Daphne Todd - winner of last year's BP Portrait award - is to feature in a new exhibition.

Singer Annie Lennox is to be presented with the Silver Clef outstanding contribution to music prize at this year's Nordoff Robbins awards luncheon.

The Irish rockers' current worldwide 360° tour has become the highest grossing tour in history, according to Billboard Boxscore.

US comedies Glee and Modern Family are honoured by the Gay and Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation (Glaad) at a Los Angeles ceremony.

Turkish author Orhan Pamuk, winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature in 2006, is one of six writers shortlisted for this year's Independent Foreign Fiction Prize.

Dame Shirley Bassey and Rumer are among the performers who will remember James Bond composer John Barry at a memorial concert at London's Royal Albert Hall in June.

Pop star Jessie J says she was shocked to see many people so drunk they "could not even stand" at a university gig.

An honorary Palme d'Or award is to be presented annually at the Cannes Film Festival, with Italian director Bernardo Bertolucci the first recipient.