| Winfrey to defend defamation case |
| Oprah Winfrey must defend a case filed against her by the former headmistress of her girls' school in South Africa, a judge rules. |
| Mantel on Orange Prize longlist |
| Booker Prize winner Hilary Mantel is longlisted for this year's Orange Prize for Fiction for her novel Wolf Hall. |
| Harry Hill triumphs at TV awards |
| Comedian Harry Hill clinches the top prize at the Royal Television Society Awards for his TV Burp show on ITV1. |
| Laureate ode to Beckham's Achilles |
| The poet laureate Carol Ann Duffy explains why she has penned a poem about David Beckham's Achilles injury |
| Chubby Brown cleared of assault |
| Comedian Chubby Brown is cleared of assaulting a 21-year-old woman during an argument in a Teesside car park. |
| Jackson in 'biggest' record deal |
| The estate of Michael Jackson agrees a deal worth $200m (£160m) with the record label Sony, US reports say. |
| Alice stays top of UK box office |
| Fantasy film Alice In Wonderland remains top of the UK and Ireland box office for the second week in a row. |
| Sheen pleads not guilty in court |
| Actor Charlie Sheen pleads not guilty to domestic violence charges and is ordered to stand trial on 21 July. |
| Abba receive Hall of Fame honour |
| Abba are inducted into the US Rock and Roll Hall of Fame along with British band Genesis and reggae master Jimmy Cliff. |
| Stars attend Waterhouse memorial |
| Sir Michael Parkinson, Barry Cryer and Penelope Keith were among friends of Keith Waterhouse at a special service to commemorate the late author. |
| Trollope awarded lifetime honour |
| Best-selling authors Joanna Trollope and Maeve Binchy have been given lifetime achievement awards for their services to romance. |
| 'Lost' Shakespeare play published |
| A play which was first discovered nearly 300 years ago has been credited to William Shakespeare. |
| French singer Ferrat dies aged 79 |
| French singer and songwriter Jean Ferrat, whose communist views saw many of his songs banned from broadcast in the 1960s, dies aged 79. |
| Strictly star Cassidy expecting first Cha-Cha-Cha-child |
| Former EastEnders and Strictly Come Dancing star Natalie Cassidy announces she is pregnant with her first child. |
| Orbital book Glastonbury return |
| Orbital sign up to headline the Glastonbury's Other Stage for the festival's 40th anniversary, 16 years after a legendary gig at Worthy Farm. |
| Singer Grant threatens Gorillaz |
| Singer Eddy Grant is threatening to sue Damon Albarn's cartoon band Gorillaz, claiming they ripped off one of his tracks. |
| Bloc Party star to play solo gig |
| Bloc Party singer Kele Okereke has announced details of his first solo live gig, playing this summer's Ibiza Rocks series alongside The Prodigy and Dizzee Rascal. |
| Robbie charity song misses top 40 |
| Robbie Williams' Sport Relief single, Morning Sun, fails to make the top 40 UK singles chart. |
| Segel 'to star in Muppets movie' |
| Forgetting Sarah Marshall star Jason Segel is to star as the lead human actor in the new Muppets film, according to reports. |
| Winslet and Sam Mendes split |
| Actress Kate Winslet and her film director husband Sam Mendes have split up, their lawyers announce. |
| Cotillard receives French honour |
| Oscar-winning actress Marion Cotillard receives one of France's highest cultural honours at a ceremony in Paris. |
| Drug ring 'link' in Haim's death |
| Actor Corey Haim's death is being linked to a major drug ring which is illegally obtaining prescription drugs, US police say. |
| Mission: Impossible actor dies |
| Peter Graves - star of the TV series Mission: Impossible and the Airplane films - dies in Los Angeles, aged 83. |
| Friends star Schwimmer to marry |
| Friends actor David Schwimmer is to marry his British photographer girlfriend Zoe Buckman. |
| Street star out of Dancing on Ice |
| Coronation Street actor Danny Young is voted off ITV1's Dancing on Ice following a costly mistake in the skate-off. |
| Hound voted Let's Dance winner |
| Comedian Rufus Hound is crowned Let's Dance champion in aid of Sport Relief after an entertaining parody of a Cheryl Cole hit. |
| Letters from behind the veil |
| A collection of previously unseen letters by reclusive author JD Salinger go on show at a New York museum |
| Winslet split |
| Film couple's career and marriage in profile |
| The good girl |
| Why Jennifer Aniston won't strop |
| Gomp/arts |
| Children's bedrooms turned into shoeboxes |
| Bourne again |
| Spy director and star reunite on thriller Green Zone |
| Big Bang |
| The struggle of keeping a car going on coffee beans |
| Roman candles |
| Creating a line of light along Hadrian's Wall |