Amstrad founder Lord Sugar names Australian businessman Mark Wright as his latest business partner, at the climax of BBC One's The Apprentice.

Udo Juergens, one of the best-known pop stars in the German-speaking world and winner of Eurovision in 1966, dies at the age of 80.

Singer Sting is "a huge presence" in the Broadway musical he wrote and now appears in, according to one review.

The third and final instalment of Peter Jackson's Hobbit films, The Battle of the Five Armies, tops the US box office.

Veteran newsman Tom Brokaw reveals that the multiple myeloma he was diagnosed with last year is in remission.

The son of Hollywood actor Jackie Chan is charged with a drug offence, Chinese prosecutors say, and could now face three years in jail.

North Korea threatens unspecified attacks on the US as it escalates a war of words over the Sony Pictures cyber attacks.

Jessie Burton's debut novel The Miniaturist comes top of a public vote to be named Specsavers Book of the Year.