The US drummer for the German rock band Scorpions has been sentenced to one month in jail in Dubai for offensive behaviour, local media say.

Launching initially online, the music competition will feature producer challenges where DJs will be invited to submit recordings.

Most popular pirate sites contain credit card scams, malware and/or other unwanted programs, says a media industry group.

Welsh actor Rhys Ifans will pay tribute to Dylan Thomas at this year's Festival No6 in Gwynedd to mark the centenary of the Swansea-born poet's birth.

Ahmed Saadawi's modern-day Frankenstein novel set in Baghdad has won the Arab world's top prize for fiction.

The musician will join Pharrell Williams, Adam Levine and Blake Shelton as a mentor on the new series.

Actor David Threlfall, best known as Frank Gallagher in Channel 4's Shameless, is to play Noah in a new BBC adaptation of the Bible story.

Spanish opera singer Montserrat Caballe is charged with tax evasion for failing to declare 500,000 euros (£410,5000) of income.