The BBC is beginning disciplinary measures against some of those involved in the decision to run a Newsnight report on care homes in north Wales.

More than 350 works by Andy Warhol fetch more than $17m (£10.7m) at auction in New York.

Richard Robbins, the US composer who scored Merchant Ivory films such as A Room with a View, Howards End and The Remains of the Day, has died aged 71, it is announced.

Dozens of children's authors call upon Newcastle City Council not to cut its library services.

Big name launches including Call of Duty: Black Ops 2, Halo 4 and Assassin's Creed 3 are expected to boost lagging video games sales.

Ofcom boss Ed Richards has emerged as the bookmakers' new favourite to become the BBC's next permanent director general, with speculation mounting the post will go to an external candidate.

Funding for a column of steam planned to rise above Wirral in celebration of London 2012 will not continue.

The investigator who exposed the Jimmy Savile abuse scandal claims the former BBC DJ "created his television series as a vehicle for his offending".