Richard Desmond, owner of Express newspapers as well as magazines including OK! and Happy looks set to float his adult entertainment TV channels on the London Stock market.

According to reports, the floatation of holding company Portland TV could be worth more than £200m.

Among the more than 20 channels operated by Portland are Television X, Gay TV and Red Hot Channel.

Jazz songstess Amy Winehouse says has left her party-loving days behind  and is now clean and sober.

The wild-haired star who recently won Best Female Singer at The Brits says she’s calmed down and enjoys nothing more than having a quite night out with her friends.

“I’m over that stuff now,” she says. “I have so little time with my friends these days that when I do get a chance to go out with them I don’t want to get so out of my pram that I can’t remember it the next day.”

Israeli filmmaker Joseph Cedar has scooped the best Director award at the annual Berlin Film Festival.

The New York-born director who moved to Israel when he was six won for Beaufort which is based on Israeli author Ron Leshem’s book If There Is A Heaven about Israel’s withdrawal from Lebanon after 18 years of occupation and follows the lives of a group of soldiers.

Cedar himself served in Lebanon during the late 1980s.

Counting Crows lead singer Adam Duritz has started his own record label.

The 42-year-old rocker had no plans to set up his own company until he came across two artists on social networking website MySpace that he wanted to sign.

Duritz discovered Chicago, Illinois-based punk-pop band Blacktop Mourning and a New York City rapper known as Notar and decided to start his own label.

Hollywood star Michael Douglas is encouraging cultural exchange among kids by lending his support to a new technology-based project.

The 62-year-old has joined forced with Global Nomads Group, which aims to improve communications for young people around the world.

He hopes funding for initiatives like video-conferencing will improve international links, after a successful trial in 2003 with US and Iraqi students.