Irish singer Sinead O'Connor announces the annulment of her brief marriage to therapist Barry Herridge, citing disapproval from his family and friends.

Helen Frankenthaler, the US abstract expressionist painter, has died aged 83 after a long illness, her nephew says.

Cheetah the chimpanzee, who acted in Tarzan films in the 1930s, has died aged 80 in Florida, his primate sanctuary says.

Oscar-winning 1991 thriller The Silence of the Lambs is to be preserved by the US Library of Congress as part of its National Film Registry.

Harry Kullijian, the former childhood sweetheart of Carol Channing whom the veteran actress married in 2003, dies in Rancho Mirage, California.

The sudden death of rapper Heavy D was due to a pulmonary embolism caused by deep leg vein thrombosis, a Los Angeles coroner decides.

Scenes from such classic movies as Gone with the Wind, Casablanca and the Sound of Music feature on the official poster for the 84th Academy Awards.