Hollywood star Robert Redford is to produce a documentary about Watergate, more than 30 years after he appeared in a film about the US political scandal.

Simon Cowell has congratulated the BBC after The Voice was watched by more viewers than Britain's Got Talent over the weekend.

Action film The Hunger Games spends its third week at the top of the US box office, with takings now in excess of $300m.

The singer Jessie J expresses her shock at the death of a man who was stabbed with a bottle at a club where she was performing last week.

Ricky Gervais defends his new Channel 4 programme, Derek, after it is claimed the show mocks people with learning difficulties.

The line-up for the Hay Festival's silver jubilee in Powys is unveiled, headed by veteran American actor and activist Harry Belafonte.

The German writer and Nobel laureate Guenter Grass is declared persona non grata by Israel over what it describes as a "mendacious poem".

The chief executive of Londonderry's culture company, Shona McCarthy, has praised the Department of Culture for showing real vision in contributing an extra £12.6m towards the city's culture celebrations.