US rapper Eminem tops the bill on day two of the Reading Festival, while Green Day headline the sister event in Leeds.

US actress Julie Harris, a star of stage and screen who won five Tony Awards in a career spanning almost 60 years, dies at the age of 87.

A black knitted tie that belonged to John Lennon sells for more than £3,000 at an auction in Liverpool.

BBC director general Tony Hall says he will light a "bonfire of the boards" at the corporation in an attempt to cut bureaucracy and stimulate creativity.

The son of author Elmore Leonard says he hopes to complete his father's last novel, which was unfinished when the writer died on Tuesday.

US singer Linda Ronstadt says she has been diagnosed with Parkinson's disease and is no longer able to sing.

A novel inspired by a seaport in the Scottish Highlands and a biography of a renowned potter scoop the UK's oldest literary awards.

Britain's Got Talent finalists Richard and Adam Johnson notch up four weeks at the top of the UK albums chart - the first artists to do so this year.