Stephen Fry is to perform in Shakespeare's Twelfth Night at London's Globe theatre - 17 years after he walked out on a West End production.

The family of the late singer Whitney Houston will allow a single video camera to record her funeral service, which takes place on Saturday.

A nude portrait by Francis Bacon, of the Soho model Henrietta Moraes, has sold for £21m at Christie's in London.

Nicolas Cage used a voodoo style mask and believed he was the Ghost Rider while filming his latest movie.

The Academy Awards will no longer come from the Kodak Theatre after the photography company is allowed to end its sponsorship deal with the Oscars' Los Angeles home.

Character singer Charles Anthony, who performed a record 2,928 times at New York's Metropolitan Opera, dies aged 82.

The Royal Academy lends its weight to calls to stop the Wedgwood Museum's historic pottery collection being sold off to plug a pension deficit.

Veteran comedian Ronnie Corbett says being made a CBE is "a very lovely honour" following an investiture ceremony at Buckingham Palace.