Chinese artist Ai Weiwei says he was forced to shut the webcams in his Beijing home, following orders from the Chinese authorities.

A "white powdery substance" and drug paraphernalia were found in Whitney Houston's hotel bathroom on the day she died, says the full coroner's report.

Senegalese musician Youssou Ndour is appointed culture and tourism minister in the country's new cabinet.

The film censor in Thailand bans a new adaptation of Shakespeare's tragedy Macbeth on grounds it is "likely to cause divisions" among the Thai people.

Former Doctor Who star David Tennant will play a French spy in a forthcoming BBC Four show, written by the writers of the Likely Lads.

The work of US photographer Herb Ritts is the subject of a major exhibition at the Getty Center in Los Angeles, nearly 10 years on from his 2002 death.

Broadcaster Sky announces a "multi-million pound" project to fund British-made movies.

The ITV1 Saturday night dating show is to be made for American television, starting this summer.