India condemns an "objectionable" comment by US comedian Jay Leno on the holiest Sikh shrine, the Golden Temple of Amritsar.

Author Salman Rushdie accuses authorities in the Indian state of Rajasthan of giving false intelligence information of a threat to his life, saying he is "outraged".

The tale of a man's adventures on his way home from the pub is voted Scotland's favourite Robert Burns poem.

The Razzies, which honour the year's worst in film, are to be given out on April Fools' Day, organisers announce.

The fourth Underworld movie, which sees the return of Kate Beckinsale, tops the North America box office on its debut.

The top 10 on Radio 1's official chart show is to be shown live for the first time next month on the station's website.

Novelist Jeffrey Eugenides and the late historian Manning Marable are among the nominees for the US National Book Critics Circle awards.

There is "no evidence whatsoever" that any BBC journalist has hacked into a telephone, the BBC's director general Mark Thompson says.