The head of the BBC believed a "miserable, second-rate American woman" was behind the abdication of Edward VIII, archive documents reveal.

A painting by British master George Stubbs sells for a record £10m at auction at Sotheby's in London.

An ex-convict on a bicycle - who later killed himself - is probably the individual who shot dead a Hollywood publicist last month, police say.

A Dali watercolour of a reclining nude that hung in Hugh Hefner's bedroom was among 125 artworks owned by Playboy magazine sold at a New York auction.

One of the contestants in BBC business talent show The Apprentice is charged with four fraud offences.

The Royal Shakespeare Company is inviting amateur theatre groups across the UK to pitch performances as part of a new project.

Dame Helen Mirren condemns film-makers for aiming movies at young men, saying Hollywood worships "at the altar of the 18- to 25-year-old male."

Jamie Oliver's latest cookbook has become the fastest selling non-fiction title of all time, with 735,000 copies bought in just 10 weeks.