Manchester named in study as biggest city for music piracy in the UK, with singer Ed Sheeran topping the list of most illegally downloaded artist.

British author Sir Salman Rushdie says he does not think his 1988 novel The Satanic Verses would be published today because of a climate of "fear and nervousness".

David O Russell's new film Silver Linings Playbook, starring Bradley Cooper and Jennifer Lawrence, wins the top prize at the Toronto International Film Festival, while Ben Affleck's Argo is runner up.

The fifth Resident Evil film debuts at number one on the US box office chart, taking $21.1m (£13m), according to early estimates.

Conductor George Hurst, closely associated with the BBC Philharmonic and the Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra, has died at the age of 86.

The third series of hit ITV1 costume drama Downton Abbey, starring Hugh Bonneville and Shirley MacLaine, attracts an average of nine million viewers.

Radio 2 DJ Chris Evans buys Donington Park's famous Dunlop bridge in a memorabilia auction.

British theatre producer David Cecil is released on bail in Uganda, where he was charged over a play about the condition of gay people in the country.