Boy band Seventeen skipped, twisted and gyrated in a high-energy performance on Glastonbury’s main Pyramid Stage, making history as the first K-Pop group to appear at the iconic music festival in southern England.

The idea of art and soccer may for some fans conjure amazement at a player’s exquisite skill, or a lasting image of glory or bitter defeat in the aftermath of the full-time whistle.

Fourteen years after launching One Direction on “The X Factor”, music mogul and television personality Simon Cowell is looking for the UK’s next big boy band, embarking on a new project differing from the talent shows he is known for.

Killer Mike is expected to avoid charges over a physical altercation that led to his arrest at the Grammys earlier this year after the rapper recently completed community service.

Bill Cobbs, the veteran character actor who became a ubiquitous and sage screen presence as an older man, has died. He was 90.

Singer, songwriter, satirist and novelist Kinky Friedman, who led the alt-country band Texas Jewboys, toured with Bob Dylan, sang with Willie Nelson, and dabbled in politics with campaigns for Texas governor and other statewide offices, has died.

The Los Angeles City Council unanimously voted to designate actress Marilyn Monroe’s former home as a historical landmark, preventing the house where the Hollywood legend died from demolition.

Thousands of people began pouring into Worthy Farm in southwest England as the Glastonbury music festival kicked off, with hundreds of artists including Dua Lipa, Coldplay and Shania Twain set to enthral fans.

Taylor Swift is taking Europe by storm, prompting some pundits to envisage an economic windfall as fans flock to dozens of sold-out shows from Dublin to Vienna and beyond.

A letter from Franz Kafka in which he tells a friend he can no longer write is being offered at auction 100 years after his death, with an estimate of up to $114,000.

Greece opened to the public an exhibition of more than 1,100 artefacts, from statues and table games to children’s toys, found in an ancient Athens neighbourhood during excavations in the area of its modern Acropolis museum.

Some ticket resellers are looking to make a quick buck as American popstar Taylor Swift performs more than 40 shows in 18 cities across Europe this summer.