Comedian and 30 Rock star Tracy Morgan is still in a critical condition after a multi-vehicle crash in New York, but is showing signs of improvement.

US actress Audra McDonald wins a record sixth Tony award, while Bryan Cranston picks up a best actor prize.

British actor Chiwetel Ejiofor is to play a convicted British drug trafficker in a movie version of Marching Powder: A True Story of Friendship, Cocaine, and South America's Strangest Jail.

Teen adaptation The Fault in Our Stars trounces Tom Cruise's latest big budget action film Edge of Tomorrow as they open at the US box office.

Bourne Legacy actor Jeremy Renner will continue his role as William Brandt in the fifth instalment of Mission Impossible.

Jennifer Lopez pulls out of performing the World Cup song at the tournament's opening ceremony in Brazil due to "production issues", Fifa officials say.

Sculptor Sarah Lucas's work is added to this year's prestigious Threadneedle Prize exhibition as a featured artist of the newly announced Curated Space section.

A piece by a prize-winning US composer, inspired by a visit to an Arsenal football match 20 years ago, has premiered in Birmingham.