Government stumps up £100,000 to ensure musicians from Middle East can play at festival

Digital music revenues have overtaken those for CDs for the first time, marking a milestone for the music industry.

An opera about British terrorists planning an attack? Arifa Akbar asks the creators of 'Babur in London' how they negotiated a cultural minefield

A seven-decade old cultural taboo will be broken next month when an Israeli symphony orchestra will play works by Richard Wagner inside the country for the first time since the state's foundation in 1948.

Japan's scandal-hit cameras and equipment firm Olympus gave more evidence it is struggling yesterday as it signalled plans to axe 2500 staff and sell a stake to Sony or Panasonic.

The daring new opera featuring British terrorists planning an attack is being staged next month.

Bob Dylan, who once wrote that "even the president of the United States sometimes must have to stand naked", has received the Presidential Medal of Freedom from Barack Obama.

Andrew Keen, the British-born and self-styled "Antichrist of Silicon Valley", has a problem. The internet evangelists who once heckled and abused him for his heretical questioning of the accepted wisdom of the digital future are now starting to agree with him.

A heavy metal tribute to Satan and a film about heroin addicts have been named the very best that Britain has produced, in a Diamond Jubilee poll.

They may not be the cultural highlights Her Majesty would have chosen to encapsulate her reign but a metallic tribute to Satan and a film about heroin addiction have been named the very best that Britain has produced, in a Diamond Jubilee poll.

UK's veteran crooner comes second-to-last (way behind Jedward)

Pop diva Lady Gaga has cancelled her show in Indonesia amid threats from hardline Muslims.

The Fiction Uncovered prize is an unusual one, in that it selects eight titles instead of one winner each year. Its remit is quite simple: to “uncover and celebrate our best British writers”.

The second album seems a little soon for Rumer to be pulling the covers over her head.