Australia's deputy PM says he's "pulling strings" in Johnny Depp's head, after the actor says he is "inbred with a tomato", in the ongoing dog-smuggling saga.

Rolling coverage of the biggest music news stories from around the world.

Music and theatre tickets are being sold unlawfully on the UK's biggest secondary websites - including Viagogo, Stubhub and Seatwave - says Which?

Authors Paul Murray and Hannah Rothschild have jointly won the Bollinger Everyman Wodehouse Prize for comic fiction.

On-demand video streaming services face a call that at least 20% of the catalogues they offer to EU subscribers should be made locally.

Dame Helen Mirren lends her voice to a recording of a new story by celebrated children's author Beatrix Potter, rediscovered after 100 years.

The actor Griff Rhys Jones is to return to the West End for the first time in five years in a new production of The Miser.

London's Donmar Warehouse is to open a temporary theatre in King's Cross to host the company's all-female Shakespeare trilogy.