News Corporation chiefs Rupert and James Murdoch and former executive Rebekah Brooks are to be quizzed by MPs about the phone-hacking scandal.

US literary agent Andrew Wylie accuses HarperCollins of acting in an "unusually shrill and punitive" way toward authors.

US songwriter Jerry Ragovoy, who wrote songs for the Rolling Stones, Janis Joplin and Elvis Presley, dies aged 80.

The actor, who was fired from Two and a Half Men earlier this year, says he has a role in a pilot for a TV series called Anger Management.

Adele and Tinie Tempah are among the nominees for this year's Barclaycard Mercury Prize.

Songs written by author Anthony Burgess for a stage musical version of his novel A Clockwork Orange are to be performed in the UK for the first time.

MPs suspended their questioning of Rupert Murdoch after the media mogul was lunged at by a protester.

Programme-making rules that must be followed in order to make a BBC programme are to be simplified, the BBC Trust says.