Opera director Gerard Mortier, who died last month aged 70, is given a posthumous lifetime achievement honour at the International Opera Awards.

Musician Bob Geldof says his family are "beyond pain" after his 25-year-old daughter Peaches was found dead at her home in Kent.

Damien Hirst is to publish his autobiography and promises to lay bare the British modern art world in which he has become so successful.

A tiny porcelain cup, dating back to the Ming Dynasty, fetches $36m (£21m) at an auction in Hong Kong, setting a new record.

The season four premiere of Game of Thrones gives HBO its top ratings since The Sopranos 2007 finale, as 6.6 million US viewers tune in.

Chat show host Des O'Connor tells Max Clifford's indecent assault trial the publicist was "charming" and acted with "integrity".

Paddington Bear writer Michael Bond pens a book of letters from the wayward bear to his Aunt Lucy in Peru.

BBC Two commissions two more series of hit drama Line of Duty, one of several programmes announced to celebrate the channel's 50th anniversary.