Penelope Keith and Angela Lansbury are among those made dames in the New Year Honours list, with Antony Gormley, Michael Crawford, Lynda Bellingham, Katherine Jenkins and Nicholas Parsons also receiving titles.

Midnight Memories, the latest album from One Direction, overtakes Emeli Sande's Our Version of Events to become 2013's top-selling album.

Disney musical The Lion King was Broadway's top-grossing show of 2013, taking nearly $97 million (£58.7m) since the beginning of the year.

Singer Beyonce defends her use of audio footage from the 1986 Challenger space shuttle disaster on an album track following criticism from the widow of one of the seven astronauts killed.

Comic book blockbuster Iron Man 3 was the highest-earning film of 2013 around the world, ahead of Despicable Me 2 and The Hunger Games: Catching Fire.

John Fortune, the British comedian and satirist who found fame through his TV collaborations with John Bird and Rory Bremner, dies aged 74.

The broadcaster Geoffrey Wheeler, best known for presenting BBC quiz show Top of the Form and Songs of Praise, has died aged 83, his son confirms.