MARGARET TRUMAN, the only child of President Harry S Truman and wife Bess, who became a concert singer, actress, radio and TV personality and mystery writer, died yesterday.

A MAN was charged last night with attacking the grandfather of a baby who had been mauled to death by rottweilers, and of killing the victim’s partner.

Veteran British actress Imelda Staunton is savouring every moment in the run-up to the Oscars, and describes her coveted nomination as “gold-dust”.

A remarkable collection of art and historical objects dating to Elizabethan England has begun a tour of the United States.

The Beatles’ Sergeant Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band album, an 1888 recitation of the Lord’s Prayer and the original cast recording of Oklahoma! Are to be enshrined the US’s registry of historic sound.

Pop Idol finalist Gareth Gates was praised for his choice of tune today by the man who first took the record-breaking song to the top of the charts, Jimmy Young.