LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Rapper T.I. has been released from jail after being arrested on suspicion of possessing ecstasy, police said on Thursday. ...

The BBC denies the director general compromised its independence by visiting Downing Street to discuss coverage of the govenrment's spending cuts. ...

With Power Balance you can finally toss away your red Kabbala string and set about your wrist a device "infused with healing and restorative powers"... ...

Ahead of his new Channel 4 series, the chef tells Benji Wilson why his recent troubles won't dull his ambition. ...

Did Paris Hilton post Twitter pic of purse prior to her arrest for cocaine..? ...

Axl Rose, the Guns N' Roses frontman, had to be prevented from walking out on a gig after fans pelted the band with plastic glasses. ...

NEW YORK (Reuters) - Brendan Fraser will make his Broadway debut in the upcoming comedy "Elling," alongside Denis O'Hare, Jennifer Coolidge and Richard Easton, the play's producers ...

LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Hollywood fixture Zsa Zsa Gabor, whose health has been failing in recent months since she fell and broke her hip, has returned home after being hospitalized ...

LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - The Telluride Film Festival on Thursday unveiled the lineup of movies for this weekend's event, regarded as among the top U.S. movie gatherings of the year ...

After Mary Bale's binning of Lola the cat and the puppies tossing girl, meet Sidney the goat... ...

The puppy girl is identified - sort of... ...

Share and Enjoy: ...

Makosi supposi her garden is rosi... ...

Katy Perry is at your mercy... ...

Philip Horne surveys public-information films from across the decades ...

A nimble orchestra and a baritone with a sense of complete emotional honesty. Rating: * * * * ...

God did not create universe - says man... ...

VENICE (Reuters) - The lives of four Arab-Israeli women spanning three generations against the backdrop of conflict are at the centre of "Miral," a film by Julian Schnabel based on ...

With the Eels in London... ...

Lucy Davies celebrates the work of photographer Corinne Day, who has died at the age of 48 ...

Cartoonist Posy Simmonds' Tamara Drewe has been adapted into an enjoyable film starring Gemma Arterton. ...

VENICE (Reuters) - Critics are queuing up to praise Natalie Portman in her latest movie "Black Swan," the opening picture at this year's Venice film festival, with one review sayin ...

NEW YORK (Reuters) - A former television producer who tried to extort $2 million (1 million pounds) from talk show host David Letterman over his affairs with women was released fro ...

Dir: Sarah Turner; Rating: * * * * ...

Jeremy Jehu's round-up of the latest thrillers ...

Dir: Abbas Kiarostami; Starring: William Shimell, Juliette Binoche; Rating: * * * * ...

In the third of four extracts from his book instructing us on correct written English, Simon Heffer tackles the language of tabloid exaggeration ...

British singer-songwriter Sami Yusuf, billed as "Islam's biggest rock star", is donating profits from his latest single to help flood victims in Pakistan. ...

The UK's first talent show to make music available for download immediately propels a little known act called Pepper and Piano into the charts. ...

It is possible to purchase your own Picasso and you don't have to be a multimillionaire to do it. ...

Dir: Jay Roach; Starring: Paul Rudd, Steve Carell; Rating: * * ...

Dir: Josh Gordon; Starring: Jennifer Aniston, Jason Bateman; Rating: * * * ...

Sameer Rahim on a melancholy, lush collection of short stories: Foster by Claire Keegan ...

NEW YORK (Reuters) - Rapper T.I. has been released from jail after being arrested in Los Angeles for possessing drugs, police said on Thursday. ...

Some of musician Bob Dylan's artwork, never seen before by the public, is to be displayed at Denmark's National Gallery. ...

On August 31, 2010, Rickey Navarre saw Jesus hanging on a cross as she drove along Louisiana's Highway 26... ...

Garry Martin of Le Page Primary School in Melbourne has told his pupils to replace the word

Sukhdev Sandhu relishes a delightfully scurrilous anti-novel, Blood Rites of the Bourgeoisie by Stewart Home ...

Tim Robey goes to LA Fitness with Will Self, to discuss the author's new book about Los Angeles ...

Ed Cumming finds a subsonic buzz in William Gibson's novel Zero History ...

Simon Scott Plummer on Everything is Broken by Emma Larkin, an account of the troubles under Burma's Military Junta ...

Now anyone can look naked! ...

Nobel Prize-winner Seamus Heaney's latest collection has an other-wordly aura, says Nick Laird ...

Nelson Goerner (piano). Rating * * * * ...

Doric String Quartet. Rating * * * * ...

Marc-André Hamelin. Rating * * * ...

Olli Mustonen (piano), Finnish Radio Symphony Orchestra, cond Sakari Oramo. Rating * * * * ...

BBC Symphony Orchestra, cond Jir?í Be?lohlávek. Rating * * * * ...

LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Independent filmmaker Lee Daniels got a big push for his movie "Precious: Based on the Novel Push by Sapphire" when Oprah Winfrey and Tyler Perry signed on ...

Robert Plant has found a way to frame his talents as a frontman in a new context. ...

Bruce Chatwin was a solitary traveller, says his friend Paul Theroux, but his letters reveal a need to know the great and the glamorous ...

Tony Blair's memoirs, based on his time as the prime minister, break sales records, booksellers say. ...

Kelly Brook - Oscar winner! ...

On Boobs and Butts... ...

A former Britain's Got Talent hopeful who claimed she was discriminated against at an audition fails to get her case taken to an employment tribunal. ...

Jean-Efflam Bavouzet, BBC Philharmonic, cond Gianandrea Noseda. Rating * * * * * ...

London Conchord Ensemble, William Dazeley (baritone). Rating * * * * ...

Marlis Petersen (soprano), Anke Vondung (mezzo-soprano), Werner Güra (tenor), Konrad Jarnot (bass-baritone), Christoph Berner and Camillo Radicke (piano). Rating * * * * ...

Steven Isserlis (cello), Tapiola Sinfonietta, cond Gábor Takács-Nagy. Rating * * * * ...

Maxim Rysanov (viola). Rating * * * * ...