Disney buys Lucasfilm, the company behind Star Wars, from George Lucas for $4.05bn (£2.5bn) and will release a seventh Star Wars film in 2015.

An ex-hospital porter in Leeds says that Jimmy Savile was regularly handed a key to a building there when he arrived with teenage girls.

One of Scotland's best-known authors is to write the words for a work being staged by Scottish Opera.

The actress, who has played Sunita Alahan for eight years, says she now wants to focus on other projects.

Humorist and travel writer Will Ferguson wins the Giller Prize - Canada's most prestigious and lucrative literary award.

David Letterman hosts his late-night chat show in an empty New York theatre for a second day, following Hurricane Sandy.

Arts Council England announces it is to axe more than 100 jobs - some 21% of its workforce - as part of a restructure.

The BBC is to broadcast a series of programmes next month celebrating the 60th anniverary of the British singles chart.