Pop and music acts, including Lady Gaga and Coldplay, will be performing in Belfast later as the MTV Europe Music Awards take place in the city.

Celebrated Indian folk singer and composer Bhupen Hazarika, known as the Bard of Brahmaputra, dies at the age of 86.

American singer Andy Williams tells fans he has cancer of the bladder, at a concert in his hometown of Branson, Missouri.

Wallace and Gromit maker Aardman's head of TV says the company may have to cease making its stop-frame animations in the UK because it has become too expensive.

An art installation by Martin Kippenburger is damaged by an overzealous cleaner who tried to scrub away a patina designed to look like a dried rain puddle.

Florence and the Machine go straight to number one in the UK with the band's second album Ceremonials, which sold more than 90,000 copies in its first week.

Some of the world's biggest music stars walk the red carpet ahead of the MTV Europe Music Awards in Belfast.