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Joyce children’s book sparks feud
A children’s story by James Joyce is published for the first time in Dublin to the dismay of the Zurich James Joyce Foundation.

UK children are ‘culture starved’
Millions of British children have never been to an art gallery, theatre or stage show, a study shows.

World Press Photo winner 2011
Spanish photographer Samuel Aranda wins the 2011 World Press Photo of the Year with an image of a veiled woman holding a wounded relative in her arms after a demonstration in Yemen.

Police recapture Madonna stalker
A man with “violent tendencies” convicted of stalking Madonna is recaptured a week after escaping from a psychiatric hospital, police say.

HBO attacked over death of horses
Animal rights group Peta calls for TV and film safety rules to be tightened after two horses were put down during filming for HBO racing drama Luck, starring Dustin Hoffman.

Video game sales slump in January
US video games suffer a 34% annual drop for January, according to analysts at NPD. The figures come less than a fortnight before the PlayStation Vita launches.

Guardian gong for Gleeson’s Guard
Irish comedy The Guard, starring Brendan Gleeson as an unorthodox Galway policeman, beats nine other contenders to win the Guardian’s annual First Film award.

Seatwave opens first ticket shop
Secondary ticketing website Seatwave opens its first shop, close to London’s O2 arena, while the venue urges fans to buy tickets from its own official site.

Suge Knight arrested in Las Vegas
The Death Row Records co-founder is arrested and released from jail after being found with cannabis in his car in Las Vegas.

Lagerfeld clarifies Adele remark
Designer Karl Lagerfeld says his comments about Adele being “too fat” were taken out of context.