Birmingham’s Duran Duran are set to perform a live concert in London’s Hyde Park to coincide with the beginning of this year’s Olympic Games on 27 July.. The show will include acts representing all 4 nations of the United Kingdom, Duran Duran will represent England, Stereophonics are to represent Wales, Paolo Nutini will perform for [...]

Wearing red tends to make women more attractive to men through subtle signals that suggest they may be receptive to sexual advances, according to new research. The researchers from the University of Rochester in New York, reveal that men genuinely do prefer ladies in red as they are feel they are less likely to suffer [...]

A hot topic on Twitter today is the news that Jay-Z and Kanye West are going to be performing in Birmingham and two other venues in the UK during the summer. The pair of heavyweights from the world of hip-hop are set to bring the Watch the Throne collaboration to three major cities in the [...]

The Facebook Messenger app, unveiled yesterday in the US, enables users of Facebook to send out instant messages with their mobile free of charge to everybody on their friends list. In an attempt to compete with Blackberry’s widely used BBM or Messenger service, this new free Facebook app will also allow users to send messages [...]

The British Library is set to make digital copies of 40,000 classic novels, historical accounts and poems that will be readily available for the Apple iPad tablet. Texts are in fully digitised mode, detailed with original drawings, rather than the basic formatting connected with other kinds of e-books. As fully digitised texts use up considerably [...]

Leonardo DiCaprio has come out on top in Forbes magazine’s yearly listing of the top earning male actors in Hollywood with his earnings estimated at $77m during the last year. This is the first time the actor has hit the top spot, and follows in the wake of his success in movies Inception and Shutter [...]

Adele, Tinie Tempah and PJ Harvey are some of the nominees for the 2011 Barclaycard Mercury Prize. The winner, who will pocket £20,000 is to be announced on September 6th. Other performers in the mix for the prize that is open to musicians from the UK and Ireland are 2008 winners Elbow, Katy B, King [...]

The final movie in the Harry Potter series has shattered the record for the highest first day box office takings in North America, based on studio estimates. Warner Bros, the movie’s distributor, reported that in the US and Canada Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 2, earned $92.1m on Friday. The movie is the [...]

It has been announced that Coldplay are to be the headline act at this year’s Glastonbury festival, they will appear on the main Pyramid stage on Saturday night. U.S. vocalist Beyonce will also be appearing at the festival, which is one of the most significant outdoor events of the year. This will be Coldplay’s first [...]

Andy Gray and Richard Keys have been employed by talkSPORT to co-host a 3 hour weekday show. The former Sky Sports presenters were involved in a sexism row over remarks made about Sian Massey, a female assistant referee. The pair will present the show from Monday to Friday on the chat station. Andy Gray expressed [...]