There's a crop of young American acts approaching the genre less as ethnomusicology and more like pop, from the hip-hop collage approach of New York's Balkan Beat Box to the emigre garage rock of Los Angeles' Dengue Fever, who headlined the festival's final night.

NPR: The Musical Worlds of WOMEX

To beat them we will need a rock steady defence, good discipline and control of the ball.

BBC: Josh Lewsey's column

Veteran action star Sean Connery helped Channel 5 to one of its biggest-ever audiences on Tuesday - when his film The Rock beat a BBC documentary on Geri Halliwell.

BBC: Connery rocks Geri show