Have a listen to Laura Marling's stunning fourth album and let us know what you think. During a recent interview with the Observer, Laura Marling talked about what made her fourth album different to the three that went before. "This album is definitely a step towards being more … plain in my songwriting," she told Tom Lamont. "As I've gotten older, more comfortable with myself, I've become more comfortable channeling honesty into songwriting."

It was a glittering start to the world's most important film festival. Actors Leonardo DiCaprio and Carey Mulligan brought A-list clout to the star-studded premiere of director Baz Luhrmann's long-awaited film. Film stars navigated a rain-drenched red carpet carrying very unglamorous umbrellas for the European premiere of "The Great Gatsby" on Wednesday. Based of F. Scott Fitzgerald's classic novel, the film tells the tale of a hedonistic life of riches and partying, dreams of material wealth, fame and happiness in superficially scenic locations.

Exhibitions are seldom funny, but Punk: Chaos to Couture , the Metropolitan Museum of Art extravaganza in New York, is hilarious. Two exhibits in particular had me wiping away tears of mirth. The first is a reverential re-creation of the men’s toilets of the CBGB club in the East Village, circa 1978. It’s all there: the dirty brown walls, the scrawled graffiti, the single roll of damp toilet paper tossed casually between the two sinks, the cigarette butts. And what’s most impressive is that someone’s gone to the trouble of staining the toilet bowls a delightful shade of, shall we say, ochre.

If there’s one thing that Paris does well, it’s fashion – a fact that only makes vintage shopping in the city all the more exciting. While the Marais boasts a bevy of low-end vintage stores (you know, the kind that require sifting through over-laden racks or digging through buckets that smell of mothballs), here are three boutiques that offer a more inspiring take on vintage fashion...

Yahoo Inc said it is acquiring blogging service Tumblr for $1.1 billion cash, a bold bet by Chief Executive Marissa Mayer to revitalize the struggling Internet pioneer by co-opting a Web property with strong visitor traffic but little revenue. The deal, which will use about a fifth of Yahoo's $5.4 billion in cash and marketable securities, is the largest by far since Mayer took the reins in July seeking to reverse a multi-year decline in Yahoo's business and Web traffic.