The BBC World Service launches 11 new language services in its biggest expansion "since the 1940s".

Britain's Got Talent judge Alesha Dixon signs up to present a new ITV celebrity dance series.

Manchester residents are asked to open their doors to host "micro" offshoots of the Manchester International Festival in their homes.

Broadcaster Jeremy Clarkson claims an airport worker in Germany barred him from a UK-bound flight.

International lawyer Philippe Sands wins the Baillie Gifford Prize for non-fiction, for his book about the origins of genocide.

The building from where Sir Terry Wogan broadcast his Radio 2 breakfast show is renamed in his honour.

A work by Mexican artist Frida Kahlo not seen in public for 60 years reappears and goes to auction.

The new trailer for Beauty and the Beast was viewed a record number of times in its first day online, Disney says.