Lots under the hammer at the Raisa Gorbachev Foundation Annual Gala include a dinner cooked by the model-turned-chef Sophie Dahl, with musical accompaniment by Jamie Cullum

Jazz star Jamie Cullum has become a father for a second time after wife Sophie Dahl gave birth to another daughter.

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Ben Howard wins best British breakthrough act and best male solo artist at Brit Awards 2013

Ben Howard, an artist who found little mainstream success until his inclusion on the Mercury Music Prize shortlist last year,has landed two Brit Awards.

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Pictures from home: Bamako, Mali 1948-1963, is a weighty new coffee-table book from Steidl that collects previously unpublished portraits from the archives of Seydou Keïta - whose stylised studio shots documented life in his hometown in the colony of French Sudan, then a bustling transport route to Dakar - with some of his most celebrated work. £86; steidlville.com
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