A selection of recently acquired photographs which are going on display at The National Portrait Gallery in London.

The BBC apologises over remarks on the TV show Top Gear that provoked outrage in Mexico, but defends humour based on national stereotyping.

Plans for Stephen Fry to film part of a new documentary series in Japan are shelved after complaints about an A-bomb joke.

Sir Mick Jagger is to perform at the Grammy Awards in Los Angeles this month as part of a tribute to late soul great Solomon Burke.

Christopher Nolan, the British director of Inception, was Hollywood's fourth-highest earner of 2010 making an estimated $71.5m (£44.3m), Vanity Fair suggests.

The success of two best-selling volumes of 18th Century poetry was down to a series of pornographic poems hidden in the book, an academic suggests.

Entrepreneur and company owner Hilary Devey is to join the next series of Dragons' Den, it is announced.

The father of Meredith Kercher has criticised a US TV film which recreates the murder of the twenty one year old student