In brief: Dev Patel plays Millionaire

Dev Patel, the star of eight-times Oscar-winning British film Slumdog Millionaire, is going on the real Who Wants to be a Millionaire? to raise money for street children. The 18-year-old actor is currently in talks to appear on the ITV programme along with Slumdog's director Danny Boyle. Their aim is win the £1m prize to raise money for British charity Railway Children, which helps youngsters living on the streets all over the world. More tantalisingly still, his co-star Freida Pinto, with whom Patel has been romantically linked, may also appear through the 'phone a friend' part of the show...........Tory leader David Cameron, whose six-year-old son Ivan died on Wednesday, is to take two weeks' compassionate leave before returning to Westminster............A sale of artwork at Christie's in Paris belonging to the late fashion designer Yves Saint Laurent has made £333.5m, almost £100m more than expected. However, Chinese officials slammed the auction house for allowing two imperial bronze sculptures, which they say were looted from Beijing's Old Summer Palace in 1860, to be sold.............Antony Gormley, the Turner Prize-winning artist, has appealed to the public to volunteer to participate in the artwork he has created for the fourth plinth in Trafalgar Square. More than 2,400 people are needed to stand on the plinth over 100 days as part of Gormley's The One and Other............President Barack Obama and his wife Michelle honoured the blind soul singer Stevie Wonder - the man whose music brought them together - with the Library of Congress's second annual Gershwin Prize for Popular Song. To mark the occasion, Wonder performed a concert for the Obamas at the White House last night............Viewers in Asia saw a censored version of the Oscar awards after Star satellite television chiefs removed gay references from Sean Penn's best actor speech for Milk, his movie about the Californian gay rights activist Harvey Milk...........US rapper Kanye West was red-faced after Vivienne Westwood's show at London Fashion Week. On expressing his admiration for her work, the 68-year-old designer dutifully thanked the star with a pat on the back, then turned to a friend as he walked away and ask who he was - at which she was told, "I think he's famous in America." ·