Tom Hanks and Emma Thompson attend the world premiere of Saving Mr Banks, a film about the long and difficult process of making the classic Disney musical Mary Poppins.

Superworm, Julia Donaldson's tale of a resourceful worm and The 5th Wave, Rick Yancey's novel about an alien invasion, are among the 10 books shortlisted for the Red House Children's Book Award.

Free tickets for a Van Morrison concert, staged to celebrate the singer being granted the freedom of his native Belfast, will be drawn from a lottery.

Sandra Bullock space adventure Gravity leads the US box office for a third week, as Wikileaks film The Fifth Estate flops in its opening weekend.

Holocaust drama Ida wins best film at the Warsaw Film Festival but Polish director Paweł Pawlikowski misses the ceremony to accept the same prize in London.

US comedian Carol Burnett is honoured with the Mark Twain Prize for American Humor.

A Czech artist floats a huge purple statue of an extended middle finger on Prague's River Vltava in an apparent slight to the president.

A piece by artist Conrad Shawcross wins a competition to replace a stolen Barbara Hepworth sculpture in a London park.