Emile Sandé and Plan B are among the nominees for this year's Mobo Awards in November.

A book about the rise of Vladimir Putin battles a history of feathers and Salman Rushdie's memoirs for this years Samuel Johnson Prize for Non-Fiction, worth £20,000.

A version of Edvard Munch's The Scream, which became the most expensive artwork sold at auction earlier this year, is to go on display in New York.

The editor of the Irish Daily Star, Michael O'Kane, is suspended over its publication of topless photographs of the Duchess Of Cambridge.

The musicians replace Cee Lo Green and Christina Aguilera on the American singing competition.

John Coates, who produced the classic animation film The Snowman, dies of cancer at his home in Kent.

The BBC's new director general George Entwistle says he will put programme making and delivering "outstanding creative originality" at the centre of the BBC.

Take That's Gary Barlow is to sing on a revamped version of the hugely successful The War of the Worlds musical album.