Veteran Oscar host Billy Crystal will host next year's Academy Awards after Eddie Murphy's departure as the programme's presenter.

The thrash metal band are confirmed as one of the headliners at next year's Download Festival.

An image of the Rhine taken by German artist Andreas Gursky has sold for $4.3m (£2.7m) in New York, breaking the auction record for a photograph.

The One Show's Matt Baker sets off from Edinburgh Castle pedalling a rickshaw to London in aid of BBC Children in Need.

Chinese artist and government critic Ai Weiwei says he will use money loaned from supporters to challenge his tax demand in court.

Money made from the X Factor vote to replace Frankie Cocozza is to be donated to forces charity Help For Heroes.

Puerto Rican rappers Calle 13 win a record nine awards at the Latin Grammys in Las Vegas, including best album for Entren Los Que Quieran.

Return To Ribblestrop, a book about the unruly staff and pupils of a dilapidated boarding school, wins the Guardian children's fiction prize for author Andy Mulligan.