Folk band Mumford & Sons and soul singer John Legend will provide the music for President Barack Obama and British Prime Minister David Cameron's state dinner at the White House on Wednesday.

The British band was invited by the Prime Minster, while President Obama asked Legend to perform at the stately bash.

A host of celebrities including British actor Damian Lewis and Virgin tycoon Richard Branson will be among the 1,000 guests at the dinner, which is being held to mark Cameron's state visit to America.

Mumford & Sons and Legend will be hoping to benefit from the Obama effect - the ...

Meryl Streep has hit back at British Prime Minister David Cameron after he criticized her portrayal of Margaret Thatcher as a vulnerable elderly woman in The Iron Lady, insisting his comments were in poor taste.

Cameron questioned why the plot focused more on Thatcher's battle with ill health in her later years, including her struggle with dementia, instead of her time in office as the U.K.'s first female prime minister.

He told BBC Radio 4, "It's a fantastic piece of acting by Meryl Streep. You can't help wondering, why do we have to have this film right now? It is a film much more about...

Victoria Beckham fought back tears at the British Fashion Awards on Monday as she was handed one of the night's top prizes.

The former Spice Girls star beat Tom Ford and Burberry to land the Designer Brand award at the ceremony in London. Her designer pal Marc Jacobs handed her the honor.

Taking to the stage dressed in a floor-length backless black gown, Beckham covered her face as she told the crowd, "I am so nervous," before thanking her soccer star husband David.

She said, "Without him I wouldn't have had the courage to do what I am doing".

Taking to Twitter after the ceremony she wr...

Alec Baldwin has called on Britain's Prime Minister David Cameron to resign over his handling of the ongoing News of the World phone-hacking scandal.

Media mogul Rupert Murdoch has been at the center of claims reporters at his now defunct U.K. tabloid, which he closed earlier this month, used a private investigator to illegally access voicemail messages belonging to royals, celebrities, and the families of crime victims.

Britain's leader Cameron has been dragged into the controversy because he hired the newspaper's former editor Andy Coulson as his communications director.

Coulson was...

Hugh Grant is urging British Prime Minister David Cameron to expand an official investigation into the country's tabloid industry, fearing U.K. authorities will conspire to "make this inquiry insufficient."

An inquiry into the illegal interception of cell phone voicemail messages by a private investigator working for Britain's News of the World has hit headlines after it emerged families of murder victims and those affected by the 2005 London Underground bombings may have been targeted.

However, the Notting Hill star admits he's "panicking" that government officials conducting the probe...