"Contagion" follows the rapid progress of a lethal airborne virus that kills within days. As the fast-moving epidemic grows, the worldwide medical community races to find a cure and control the panic that spreads faster than the virus itself. At the same time, ordinary people struggle to survive in a society coming apart.

Rebekah Brooks has been arrested by officers investigating allegations of corruption and phone hacking.

Charlie Gilmour, the son of Pink Floyd guitar legend David Gilmour, has been sentenced to 16 months in jail for violent disorder.

NME is reporting that the 21 year-old Gilmour was arrested and imprisoned after films surfaced of him throwing a trash can at a car transporting Prince Charles and defacing the Cenotaph (which commemorates the British war dead) in London. Gilmour, who was a student at London’s Cambridge University at the time, has apologized for his actions since the incident.