Mary Tyler Moore was honored with a lifetime achievement award at the SAGs Sunday evening, where the 75-year-old actress showed she can still turn the world on with her smile, as can Dick Van Dyke, who presented her with the award. Read full article > >

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Mary Tyler Moore shines at SAG Awards; Ian Abercrombie, of ‘Seinfeld’ fame, dies

Jo Shapcott wins the Queen’s Gold Medal for Poetry, its judges saluting the “calm but sparkling Englishness” of her award-winning verse.

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The band are to receive the award for outstanding contribution to music at next year’s Brit Awards, organisers have confirmed.

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Blur to get ‘lifetime’ Brit award

Three men whose work helped uncover how the immune system works, and in so doing identified three milestones in an evolutionary path extending two billion years into the past, were awarded the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine on Monday. This year’s award, however, is unique in the 110-year history of the world’s most famous prize in that one of the recipients — Ralph M. Steinman of Rockefeller University — was dead when the award was announced. Rules for the prize stipulate that recipients must be living. Read full article > >

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The Nobel Foundation says scientist Ralph Steinman will keep his Nobel prize for medicine after his death on Friday cast doubt on the award.

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Late Nobel laureate to keep award

An Academy Award winner for “Charly,” Mr. Robertson later challenged a powerful studio boss as a forger and embezzler.

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PJ Harvey has been named the winner of this year’s Mercury Music Prize with her album Let England Shake, 10 years after she first won the award.

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The first New Adventures Choreographer Award, set up by dancer and choreographer Matthew Bourne, is to go to 22-year-old James Cousins from Newbury, Berkshire

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Bourne reveals dance prize winner

Irish author Colum McCann wins the International Impac Dublin Literary Award for his latest novel, Let The Great World Spin.

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Irish author wins lucrative award

Taylor Swift, Blake Shelton and Miranda Lambert were big winners at the 2011 CMT Awards. Rapper Ludacris and teen pop star Justin Beiber also performed at the award show. (June 9) Read full article > >

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CMT Awards highlight country, pop and rap stars

Musicians including Carlos Santana and Herbie Hancock criticise Grammy Award organisers for dropping categories from the annual show.

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Musicians battle Grammy changes

NEW YORK — The Academy Award-winning songwriter of “You Light Up My Life” was found dead of an apparent suicide while awaiting trial on charges of sexually assaulting more than a dozen women and just months after his son was accused of murdering a swimsuit designer. Joseph Brooks, 73, was discovered Sunday afternoon on his living room couch with a plastic dry-cleaning bag around his head and a towel around his neck, police spokesman Paul Browne said. A hose attached to a helium tank was hooked up to the bag, and the door to Brooks’ Upper East Side apartment was ajar, he said. Read full article > >

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Facing sex charges, ‘You Light Up My Life’ songwriter Brooks dies in apparent suicide in NYC

The East Room, the most coveted concert hall in Washington, will be the setting on May 11 for “An Evening of Poetry.” The President and First Lady have invited an interesting collection of voices from former U.S. Poet Laureates Rita Dove and Billy Collins to Grammy Award winner Jill Scott. The lineup also includes Elizabeth Alexander, who created a poem for the president’s inauguration; the hip-hop artist and actor Common; poet and artist Kenneth Goldsmith ; installation artist Alison Knowles and songwriter and singer Aimee Mann. Read full article > >

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Poets and musicians to take the stage at the White House

NEW YORK — Sidney Lumet, the award-winning director of such acclaimed films as “Network,” ‘’Serpico,” ‘’Dog Day Afternoon” and “12 Angry Men,” has died. He was 86.

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US writer Anthony Doerr is named the winner of this year’s Short Story Award for The Deep, scooping the £30,000 prize money.

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Short story prize goes to Doerr