US media face a tenfold increase in maximum fines for airing indecent material under new legislation.
Irish author Colm Toibin wins the world's richest literary prize, the Impac award, with his novel The Master.
Britney Spears admits in a US TV interview that her pregnancy has left her 'an emotional wreck'.
The White Stripes win a legal case against a former producer who claimed a share in the band's royalties.
Daryl Hannah is removed by police from a tree during a protest against a garden's planned demolition.
Music legend Bob Dylan is to release Modern Times, his first studio album in five years, on 29 August.
Police hunt an unidentified gunman who fired shots in the office of a Bollywood film-maker.
US comedy legend Jerry Lewis is recovering in hospital after suffering a "minor" heart attack.
The literary archive of late US writer Charles Bukowski is donated to a California library.
Writer Donald Hall is named the new poet laureate of the US.
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