Reunited US boy band New Kids on the Block perform together for the first time in 15 years, in New York.

Soul II Soul founder Jazzie B is formally made an OBE by the Prince of Wales for his services to music.

Former X Factor presenter Kate Thornton has given birth to a baby boy, her spokesperson confirms.

Hollywood agent Warren Cowan, who represented stars such as Frank Sinatra and Elizabeth Taylor, dies.

US soul singer Al Green will be honoured with a lifetime achievement prize at the BET awards in June.

Sarah Jessica Parker denies there is a rift with her co-stars in the Sex And The City film on Jonathan Ross' TV show.

US actor John Phillip Law, who starred in Barbarella and The Russians Are Coming, dies aged 70.

US celebrity private eye Anthony Pellicano is found guilty of racketeering and conspiracy charges.

Contract talks between the actors union and the Hollywood studios will resume by 28 May, according to reports.

A zombie thriller partly shot in Govan and Dumfries and Galloway gets its UK-wide release in cinemas on Friday.

Hollywood actress Angelina Jolie reveals she is considering giving birth to her twins in France.

Singer Neil Diamond reaches the top of the US Billboard chart for the first time in his career.

A member of Amy Winehouse's family calls in to a BBC Radio show to ask the press to leave the singer alone.

Welsh soprano Natasha Marsh is to sing the theme tune for ITV's coverage of the Euro 2008 football championships.

A court in Malawi delays its final decision in Madonna's adoption case until next week.

James Alexandrou, who played Martin Fowler in EastEnders, is to make his West End stage debut.

ITV predicts no growth in advertising revenue for the first half of 2008 as the UK economy slows.

West Midlands Police and prosecutors apologise for accusing the makers of a Channel 4 show of distortion.

Pushy car trader Sara Dhada - the latest contestant to be fired from BBC One's The Apprentice - has put her eviction down to "boardroom suicide".

The Wellcome Collection says if it wins this year's Arts Fund Prize, it will give the £100,000 prize money away to the losing finalists.

A Francis Bacon masterpiece breaks the artist's record at auction after selling for $86.3m (£43m) in New York.

A Lucian Freud painting of a sleeping, naked woman sells for $33.6m (£17.2m) in New York, a new record.

A biography of writer VS Naipaul is among six books shortlisted for the Samuel Johnson Prize for Non-Fiction.