Plan B wins album chart battle

East London rapper Plan B has entered a UK draft during number a single with his ultimate album, winning a parsimonious race with Scouting For Girls.

The Defamation of Strickland Banks eased ahead of a pop trio during a second half of a week.

Scouting For Girls

Glee triumphs at gay media awards

US musical TV series Glee has been declared most appropriate comedy series during a Glaad media awards in a US for a certain portrayal of happy characters.

Creator Ryan Murphy suggested which Kurt, played by singer Chris Colfer, would have a boyfriend in a subsequent series as

Mali actor Kouyate dies aged 74

Malian screen star Sotigui Kouyate, who was declared most appropriate actress at a Berlin Film Festival final year, has died in Paris at a age of 74.

Kouyate won a endowment for playing a French Muslim waiting for headlines of his son in a wake of a

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Matisse painting goes on display

Paintings by Henri Matisse and Mark Rothko have left upon arrangement in London forward of sales in New York next month.

Matisse's Bouquet pour le fourteen Juillet 1919 is approaching to fetch $18-25m (£11.6-16m) during Sotheby's impressionist and modern art sale upon 5 May.

Rothko's 1961 work

Mike Leigh competing at Cannes

British senior manager Mike Leigh will lapse to this year's Cannes Film Festival to contest for a event's tip esteem with his ultimate offering, Another Year.

US senior manager Doug Liman creates his Cannes debut with Fair Game, to one side Abbas Kiarostami as well as Takeshi

NME gets behind Oxfam music drive

NME repository has hooked up with Oxfam to titillate music fans to donate unwanted albums to a charity.

Donors will embrace a giveaway duplicate of a repository in return.

"We want to get a mag out to as most people as we can - Oxfam is a