Naked pictures of celebrities including Rihanna, Ariana Grande and Victoria Justice are posted online, but some stars claim the photos are fake.

Sci-fi blockbuster Guardians of the Galaxy rules the US box office, becoming the biggest film of the year so far.

The director of the BBC World Service, Peter Horrocks, is to leave the corporation in the New Year, it is announced.

A public appeal is launched to save the Wedgwood Museum's collection, which is being sold to plug the ceramics firm's pension deficit.

Queen guitarist Brian May lends some of his collection of Victorian 3D photographs to a new show at London's Tate Britain.

The daughter of comedian and TV presenter Joan Rivers says they have their "fingers crossed" as she recovers in hospital from a cardiac arrest.

BBC staff vote to go on strike in a row over job losses, the National Union of Journalists says.

Actor Miltos Yerolemou, best known for playing swordsman Syrio Forel in the first series of Game of Thrones, has joined the cast of Star Wars: Episode VII.