Nominations for the Waterstones Children's Book Prize include journalist Dawn O'Porter's teen novel Paper Aeroplanes and books by an actress, a performance poet and a screenwriter.

Comcast reportedly plans to buy Time Warner Cable for about $45bn (£27bn), creating a company that could control three-quarters of the US cable industry.

Sting's musical about shipbuilding in the North East of England will debut on the New York stage in September.

Veteran singers Sir Cliff Richard and Sir Tom Jones will appear alongside Morrissey at a pair of US concerts later this year

The judge in former BBC DJ Dave Lee Travis's trial for indecent assault and sexual assault tells the jury he will accept majority verdicts.

Gone Girl author Gillian Flynn and director David Fincher sign up to remake Channel 4's thriller Utopia for HBO in the US.

Former BBC DJ Dave Lee Travis is found not guilty of 12 counts of indecently assaulting women, with jurors unable to reach verdicts on two other charges.

Dozens of pirate DVD traders have been arrested in Kenya for selling banned copies of The Wolf of Wall Street, Kenya's film censors tell the BBC.