'Billie Holiday just glides and floats over the chaos'

There can’t be many winners of the Mercury Music Prize who could play London’s Royal Opera House and finish the show with the entire audience on their feet shouting “Bravo!” as if the curtains had just come down on La Bohème. But this was hardly your average gig. Besides, the Opera House’s grandness certainly provides the perfect backdrop for Hegarty’s otherworldly tales of sorrow.

The Carlton Intercontinental hotel on the exclusive Promenade de la Croisette in Cannes was the setting for an extraordinarily brazen diamond heist at the weekend, in which a lone gunman strolled into a jewellery exhibition taking place at the hotel and stuffed a suitcase with millions of pounds worth of Leviev diamonds before walking out. The owner of Leviev diamonds, Lev Leviev, is yet to comment on the theft. Apart from being a billionaire with an amazingly alliterative name,  just who is this wronged bling merchant?

'Most of the music I love is made by awful musicians'

In this weather, the most cooling drinks come straight from the freezer.

When Kanye West decides to collaborate with someone it often garners mixed results.

The disgraced former congressional representative chose an interesting 'nom de plume,' despite his real name doing the job perfectly

The news that the perennial OK! cover star Kerry Katona is to play Marilyn Monroe on stage in the forthcoming production of Norma Jeane The Musical was met with appropriate snorts of laughter. But do the blondes have more in common than it might first appear?

As it’s July, thousands of students and recent graduates are currently running around fetching coffee, picking up dry-cleaning and taking on a whole host of other menial tasks as they enjoy (or is that endure?) a summer internship. And if they’re lucky, they might even learn a thing or two.

Yesterday saw the end of this year’s Comic-Con, during which geeks descend on San Diego to be whipped up into a frenzy about the release of new sci-fi and action movies. But which films does Trending back to cross over to mass non-geek appeal?