CULTURE

The Little Britain star has announced they are expecting their first child.

Diamonds singer immortalised in lifelike figures showing her during her redhead phase.

Our film critic Matt Chapman reviews Ben Affleck's latest film about a team of fugitive US diplomats who fabricate a sci-fi film to escape from Iran.

Model treats fans to behind-the-stage snaps of her preparing for stint in burlesque show Forever Crazy.

Originally titled by Munch as Der Schrei der Natur (The Scream of Nature), The Scream features a turbulent man against the backdrop of a Norwegian landscape with orange sky.

Peter Hitchens book, The War We Never Fought: The British Establishment's Surrender to Drugs, is not what you might expect.

From the British royal lineage, a portrait drawing of Edward VI, the son of Henry VIII and a painted portrait of Thomas Howard, third Duke of Norfolk, will go on show at The Queen’s Gallery.

Star of the controversial Emmanuelle series of soft porn films, Sylvia Kristel, has died.

History was made at the Man Booker prize last night as Hilary Mantel became the first woman and the first British novelist, to win the prestigious Man Booker Prize twice and receive £50,000 as part of the prize. For her novel, Bring up the Bodies.

Mantel becomes first woman and first British novelist to win prestigious prize twice.

Five-day book fair, with New Zealand as guest of honour, has 7,300 exhibitors from 100 countries.

A new exhibition in Scotland, Lucknow to Lahore: Fred Bremner’s Vision of India, showcases photographs taken in British Raj India between 1882 and 1922.

The paintings were done with the artist’s blood and depict a situation of hope in the times of fragility.

Despite dividing critics, The Causal Vacancy sells 124,603 copies in first three days.

Harry Potter author's new book, The Casual Vacancy, describes a Sikh female student as hairy.

Props and dresses from famous James Bond films such as Casino Royale, For Your Eyes Only and The World Is Not Enough are up for online bidding.

The Who's Pete Townshend reveals in memoir Who I Am that the Rolling Stones frontman was 'only man I've ever wanted to f***'

Visitors have paid €2,000 in just four days to see Cecilia Gimenez's terrible restoration in Borja church.

Over 250 rare and unseen artefacts from Pompeii and Herculaneum will go on show during a major exhibition at the British Museum next spring

A skeleton dug up from an excavation site at the Saint Ursula convent in Florence, Italy, does not belong to Mona Lisa.

Cutty Sark restoration wins Carbuncle Cup, annual prize given to the worst new piece of architecture in Britain.

British novelist of mega-bonkbuster says she listened to the group's single Sexy while writing her book.

A book review by Jason Beerman in Saturday, 01 September 2012's Toronto Star, reminds me that Communism in theory and practice can be miles apart. The Zenith now translated into English, is a book describing a fictionalized account of the life of Ho Chi Minh by celebrated Vietnamese authoress Duong Thu Huong. Celebrated that is outside Vietnam where, for the most part, Thu Huong and her works do not meet the Government's approval and she now lives in exile in Paris.

Fiction writers including Ian Rankin and Lee Child say many peers are using 'devious' tactics to promote their work.

Late author of Farenheit 451 drew attention because of a perceived criticism of US government.

The black Givenchy dress worn by Audrey Hepburn in Breakfast at Tiffany's and Dorothy Gale costume from The Wizard of Oz will go on display.

The exhibition, China's Terracotta Warriors: The First Emperor's Legacy, is slated to commemorate the tenth anniversary of the Asian Art Museum in San Francisco.

Willy Russell’s hugely successful musical Blood Brothers will close its curtains for the final time on 27 October

An undersea exhibition on a sunken ship off the coast of the US state of Florida has been wooing divers into that surreal world through a photographic display