Actor Chris O'Dowd says his co-star, Ben Foster, was "really smart" to take performance enhancing drugs while playing Lance Armstrong in a new biopic.

Organisers of the Miss America pageant apologise to actress and singer Vanessa Williams, who had to resign her title in 1984.

Two pilots working on Tom Cruise's new film, Mena, are killed in a plane crash in the Colombian Andes, while a third man is seriously injured.

Russian Anna Tcybuleva has won the Leeds International Piano Competition, one of the most prestigious prizes in classical music.

Media regulator Ofcom decides not to launch an investigation into an edition of ITV's Loose Women that included a viewers' poll about rape.

Dating drama The Perfect Guy and M Night Shyamalan's The Visit fare similarly well at North American cinemas, coming first and second at the US and Canada box office.

Pop singer Dane Bowers denies assaulting his ex-girlfriend, saying he acted in self-defence when he hit her.

A displaced Iraqi family is among the subjects of the four photos up for this year's Taylor Wessing Photographic Portrait Prize.