The Edinburgh festival receives £2.3m in foundation funding a year. Photograph: Murdo Macleod More than 50 of Scotland’s best-known arts organisations, including the Edinburgh festival and the Traverse theatre, face deep cuts in their grants from the new government arts agency, Creative... 

Reckitt Benckiser is to buy Durex condoms maker SSL International. Photograph: Linda Nylind Reckitt Benckiser, home to Cillit Bang, is set to acquire the firm behind Durex Condoms, SSL International, in a £2.5bn takeover. The Anglo-Dutch household goods firm, which is also behind Finish dishwasher... 

AP Lindsay Lohan needed an Oscar-winning performance in her probation hearing to avoid jail time. She did not deliver. “I did the best I could,” Lohan tearily told Superior Judge Marsha Revel in her own defense in Beverly Hills, Calif. on Tuesday. But Revel, citing a litany of Lohan’s... 

Naomi Campbell: the supermodel has been summoned to The Hague. Photograph: Andreas Rentz/Getty Images for de Grisogono Encouraging news from The Hague, where the war crimes trial of former Liberian president Charles Taylor looks finally to have secured a much-needed celebrity angle. Naomi... 

© /WENN Though Justin Bieber has appeared as a nice gentleman and singer, he finally exposed his boy nature. During a recent interview, the “Baby” hitmaker”, who often says he loves his fans, has revealed one other thing he likes about them –...