How they looked last time … Pete Doherty and Carl Barat on stage in 2004. Photograph: J Quinton/WireImage The Libertines announced plans today for their first full gig since they revealed that they were re-forming. The band, which centres around the songwriting partnership of Pete Doherty... 

Tragic ending … this year’s Love Parade ended in the deaths of 19 people. Photograph: Hermann J Knippertz/AP The deaths of 19 people in a crowd panic at Love Parade in Duisburg on the weekend was truly, nightmarishly awful. But what is really incredible is that it took uniquely... 

A scene from Inception: Leonardo DiCaprio suggests that people see it twice to understand the plot. Photograph: Stephen Vaughan/Warner Bros ‘Dad, what do you think it meant when the totem wobbled like that?” Many parents will be asked a tricky question like this as they leave the... 

Cheryl Cole at the 63rd Cannes international film festival. Photograph: Matt Sayles/AP Cheryl Cole is in hospital after being infected with malaria during a holiday in Tanzania three weeks ago, her spokesman confirmed today. The singer was initially diagnosed with exhaustion after collapsing... 

West End debut … Whoopi Goldberg is set to play Mother Superior in Sister Act. Photograph: Timothy White/PA Sister Act: The Musical is in no way like Sister Act: the movie. At least, that’s what the production team were at pains to tell us when it opened last summer. It had a...