Cannes film festival will open with Emmanuelle Bercot's "bold and moving" La Tete Haute starring Catherine Deneuve - the first female director to kick off the event since 1987.

TV presenter Sue Perkins says she is taking a break from Twitter after receiving threats over reports she was replacing Jeremy Clarkson on Top Gear.

The season five premiere of Game of Thrones sets a new overnight ratings record for Sky Atlantic, with 1.57m tuning in.

Professor Stephen Hawking has lent his voice to Monty Python's famous Galaxy Song as part of Record Store Day 2015.

Farooq Chaudhry steps down as chairman of Dance UK, days after joining top choreographers in an attack on the "declining standards" of UK dance training.

US soul singer Percy Sledge, famed for his song When a Man Loves a Woman, has died aged 73, his agent says.