A new portrait of The Queen is unveiled at a Westminster Abbey service to mark the 90th anniversary of the Royal British Legion.

Actors Dominic West and Clarke Peters, best known for starring in US drama The Wire, start their stage run in Shakespeare's Othello at The Crucible in Sheffield.

Charlie Sheen's screen funeral on sitcom Two and a Half Men was watched by 28.7m in the US - the highest ratings for the show since it began in 2003.

Director Steven Spielberg says that his Abraham Lincoln biopic will be released after the 2012 presidential election to avoid it being "political fodder".

German conductor Kurt Sanderling, who fled Nazi Germany for Moscow in 1936 before returning in 1960, dies in Berlin at the age of 98.

A lost novel by Mildred Pierce and The Postman Always Rings Twice author James M Cain has been discovered and is to be published in autumn 2012.

Comedian Bill Bailey is among the actors set to appear in this year's Doctor Who Christmas special, the BBC announces.

The popularity of Adele's music is causing a headache for one Dublin music shop