Ellen DeGeneres , the award-winning comedian and talk show host, has been selected by the Kennedy Center to receive this year’s Mark Twain Prize for American Humor . Ellen, as she is known to the millions who watch her syndicated talk show, had this to say about the award. Read full article > >

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Ellen DeGeneres named Mark Twain Prize recipient

A writer for British comedy The Thick of It criticises BBC America’s decision to censor the award-winning political satire.

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Thick of It writer raps censors

In another sign of Washington’s growing influence as a theater town, the Kennedy Center’s highly regarded revival of “Follies” garnered an impressive eight Tony Award nominations Tuesday, making it potentially one of the most highly decorated shows of the 2011-12 Broadway season. Read full article > >

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Tony Award nominations: Led by ‘Follies,’ Washington lights up Broadway

A council-owned building firm is one of 16 Scottish companies to have won a Queen’s Award for enterprise.

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Scots firms scoop Queen’s Award

Canadian singer Michael Buble is in the running for a Sony Radio Academy Award for his music show on Magic 105.4.

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Buble nominated for radio honour

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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Poet Shapcott wins Queen’s Medal

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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Three win medicine Nobel Prize for helping unlock secrets of the immune system

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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Cliff Robertson, Oscar-Winning Rebel, Dies at 88

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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Harvey wins Mercury Music Prize

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