British songstress Adele has been given the perfect get well gift after being nominated for six Grammys at next year's awards.

The 'Love on Top' singer topped a poll by social media website saucytime.com by earning £1.25 million for a five-song performance at a private New Year's Eve 2010 party on the island of St. Barts, equating to £71,040 for each minute she was on the stage.

Keeping it real. Is there any modern phrase which so immediately makes one's Phoney Alarm go off big-time, with bells on? Sincerity has become very suspect over recent years, and with good reason – the search for authenticity has ruined more lives than crack, smack and sugar rolled together.

Mo Farah today struck gold in the 5,000 metres at the World Championships in Daegu, seven days after being pipped to victory in the 10,000m.

By the time this is published, the Notting Hill Carnival will be in full swing and, oh, at this point, to be Rihanna, who looked so brilliant at the Crop Over Festival in Barbados at the beginning of this month. One could be forgiven for forgetting, if only for a moment, that the tiniest red and gold embroidered bikini, matching leg harnessing, fishnet tights and what might perhaps best be described as black hobnail boots are really a very good idea indeed.

A false ideal of beauty is plain dangerous

Rihanna treats festival to a different kind of girl power

Rihanna looked like it was just another day at the office as she dressed upfor the Kadooment Day Parade in her native Barbados.

A pallid English blues pianist, rolling and tumbling through a suite of originals and covers (including Rihanna's "Disturbia"), multitracking his voice like a Dorset Beach Boy on a deserted pierhead with nowt but drums and New Orleans horns for company.

Piano whizz Paddy Milner can probably turn his hand to most modes, but on The Curious Case Of..., he sticks mostly to the area where blues meets jazz, with a clear leaning in the direction of New Orleans.

Rihanna is the new face of Emporio Armani.

From lads' mags to clothes, to pop stars on the X Factor: the issue of what is appropriate for young eyes has divided Britain. Here, Lisa Markwell and Stephanie Calman dissect the dilemmas facing today's mothers

The video that accompanies "S & M", Rihanna's recent musical offering, has the hallmarks of what we've come to expect from today's pop promos. Stockings and suspenders. Tick. Simulated sex. Tick. Sensuous eating of banana and suggestive wiping of the cream from the lips. Tick. Hard-core bondage. Tick.

Music bosses are to extend their "explicit content" labelling to downloads and online streaming - to protect children from inappropriate songs.