German film director Roland Emmerich admits courting controversy with his film that questions the authorship of Shakespeare's plays.

Rock band Kasabian headline the final night of this year's Isle of Wight festival with fans watching in the rain.

UK export War Horse wins five prizes including best play at the Tony Awards in New York while Briton Mark Rylance wins the top acting award for Jerusalem.

US hit show Glee is to be screened on Sky from this autumn, it is confirmed.

The fifth X-Men movie tops the UK and Ireland box office in its opening weekend, taking £5.4m in three days.

Sci-fi mystery Super 8, directed by JJ Abrams, claims pole position at the US and Canada box office from X-Men prequel First Class.

Television Centre, the west London home of BBC TV - as well as many other parts of its output - for 50 years, goes on the market.

Sotheby's London is to auction a portrait of a monk, credited to Anthony van Dyck, that was previously thought to have been painted by Rubens.