How To Be A Woman by Times journalist Caitlin Moran is named Galaxy book of the year, beating titles by Dawn French and Claire Tomalin.

The British Heart Foundation has launched a new advertising campaign urging people to forget "mouth-to-mouth" and to concentrate on chest compressions when performing CPR.

Two George Clooney movies are nominated to receive the top prize at this year's Producers Guild of America Awards.

Singer Gloria Estefan becomes the first female artist in the history of the US Latin singles rundown to enter at number one.

Film-maker Martin Scorsese is to be honoured with British Academy's highest accolade, the Fellowship, at the Bafta Film Awards ceremony next month.

Killers' front man Brandon Flowers confirms the band will release a new album this year and announces one of the tracks.

Satellite broadcasters in China have cut prime-time entertainment TV by two-thirds following an order by the government watchdog, the state news agency reports.

Czech author Josef Skvorecky, who published hundreds of works banned by the communist authorities, has died aged 87.