David Cameron tells overseas investors that "now is the time" to back the UK's art, film, television, music and literature.

Best-selling Irish author Maeve Binchy, who sold more than 40 million books worldwide, has died after a short illness.

Romantic singer and actor Tony Martin, who appeared in movie musicals from the 1930s to the '50s, dies at his Los Angeles home aged 98.

Singer Sheryl Crow is granted a temporary restraining order against a man accused of threatening to shoot her.

The National Theatre, Chichester Festival Theatre and the Royal Opera House are among five organisations sharing £43m funding from Arts Council England.

The Welsh National Opera unfairly dismissed its former principal oboist after claiming his playing did not blend with the rest of the orchestra, the Court of Appeal rules.

A new trailer for the latest James Bond film Skyfall gives fans their first glimpse of Javier Bardem's blond villain in action.

The BBC's Olympic theme by Elbow has been put on sale to raise money for charity.