George Michael has postponed a series of concerts, including two weekend shows in Cardiff, after being taken to hospital in Austria with pneumonia.

Prosecutors for the state of California ask a judge to sentence Conrad Murray to four years in prison for his role in the death of singer Michael Jackson.

The outgoing artistic director of the Donmar Warehouse will join forces with former colleague James Bierman.

The band Elbow are behind the BBC's soundtrack for the London 2012 Olympic Games.

Sir Bruce Forsyth returns to the London stage in May 2012 for the first time in more than a decade.

The BBC launches a year of programmes centred around the Olympics, including an ambitious Shakespeare season and special documentaries.

Actress Sienna Miller has told the judge-led inquiry into media ethics how media intrusion had left her in a state of "complete anxiety and paranoia".

US country duo Sugarland are named in legal action launched by those involved in a fatal stage collapse at Indiana's State Fair in August.