A picture of a 13-year-old girl holding a guinea pig wins this year's £12,000 Taylor Wessing Photographic Portrait Prize.

Adele wins the best pop video at this year's UK Music Video Awards, while JLS pick up the people's choice plaudit.

Rush Hour director Brett Ratner resigns as a producer of the 2012 Oscar ceremony after using a derogatory term for gay men.

Hundreds of people are to attend a funeral service in Leeds for the DJ and television presenter Sir Jimmy Savile.

The Advertising Standards Authority bans a perfume advert featuring teenage Twilight actress Dakota Fanning saying it could sexualise a child.

The Treasury says it is removing a tax loophole that allows Channel Islands-based firms to ship goods VAT-free to the UK.

Recording artist Heavy D, the self-proclaimed "overweight lover" of hip-hop who became one of rap's biggest stars in the 1980s, dies in Los Angeles.

Crowds of art fans are expected at the National Gallery in London later as its "blockbuster" Leonardo da Vinci show opens to the public.