Sherman Hemsley, who starred as a wise-cracking black businessman in the hit 1970s US sitcom The Jeffersons, dies at the age of 74.

A man who killed the mother, brother and nephew of actress and singer Jennifer Hudson is sentenced to life in prison by a Chicago judge.

Council archives and documents are among more than 3,500 items being removed from the collection of a Surrey museum which is earmarked for closure.

Christian Bale, who plays Batman in the Dark Knight Rises, visits survivors of last week's cinema shooting in Colorado.

Bollywood starlet Sherlyn Chopra, who will be the first Indian to appear nude in Playboy, tells the BBC it was "not easy" to pose for the magazine.

Five stars of hit US comedy show Modern Family are suing to have their contracts declared void in a dispute over pay.

The former star of The Tudors, Jonathan Rhys Meyers, is to play Dracula in a US version of Bram Stoker's vampire novel.

Singer Charlotte Church accepts substantial undisclosed libel damages over a story which appeared in a Sunday tabloid.