Amy Winehouse and Dizzee Rascal lead the nominations for this year's Mobo Awards. The nominations for the 12th Music Of Black Origin (Mobo) was announced on Wednesday in London.

Singer Amy Winehouse and rock group Arctic Monkeys are among the 12 nominees for the 2007 Nationwide Mercury Prize. Winehouse and Arctic Monkeys' second albums - Back To Black and Favourite Worse Nightmare - were announced on the shortlist at a conference at London's The Hospital venue on Tuesday.

Buffy The Vampire Slayer star Sarah Michelle Gellar will open the sale of prestigious London department store Harrods on Monday - joining the likes of Eva Longoria and Brittany Murphy who have begun the shop's sale in the past.

Arctic Monkeys frontman Alex Turner is relieved his performance at England's Glastonbury Festival on Friday is finally over - after spending months trying to calm his pre-gig nerves.

Happy Birthday to British DJ and rapper Dizzee Rascal (1985), baseball slugger Mark McGwire (1963), Puerto Rican actor Esai Morales (1962), comedic actor Randy Quaid (1950), Panamanian baseball star Rod Carew (1945), Mary Poppins star Julie Andrews (1935), Harry Potter's first "Dumbledore" Sir Richard Harris (1930), "Hannibal Smith" from The A-Team George Peppard (1928), Happy Days actor Tom Bosley (1927), 39th President of the United States Jimmy Carter (1924), comedic actor Walter Matthau (1920), and Russian pianist Vladimir Horowitz (1903).

Teenage pop star Charlotte Church is set to write a second book of memoirs, just five years after her child soprano career was meticulously detailed in print. The 19-year-old Welsh singer has reportedly signed a six-figure deal for a transcript of her teenage life, which has been plagued by kiss-and-tell tabloid tales from ex-lovers and unflattering pictures of boozy nights out.