The big push initiated on BBC Two's Stargazing Live series to find planets beyond our Solar System has had an immediate result, with a viewer identifying a possible candidate.

British pop star Adele tops the US album chart for a sixteenth week, putting her album 21 amongst an elite group of best-sellers.

Pop band JLS are to release this year's charity single for the BBC's Sport Relief 2012.

Singer Rihanna confirms she will take to the stage with Coldplay at the Grammys to perform their recent collaboration, Princess Of China.

US film actor Mark Wahlberg apologises after making "disrespectful" comments about the 9/11 terrorist attacks on New York.

The film adaption of Scottish author Irvine Welsh's book Ecstasy is to make its British premiere at the Glasgow Film Festival in February.

A contestant on Countdown scores six points with a lewd word, which Channel 4 had to bleep out.

A 24-hour strike is held by some BBC staff over the corporation's plans to move a number of programme teams from Birmingham to Bristol.