ENTERTAINMENT

The BBC is to close its Digital Media Initiative, with director general Tony Hall saying it had "wasted a huge amount of licence fee payers' money".

Newsbeat takes a tour backstage as Londonderry prepares to play host to Radio 1's Big Weekend.

This week's Meet the Author is with Simon Thurley, chief executive of English Heritage, about his new book The Men from the Ministry.

Sinn Fein complains to the BBC after a Question Time floor plan refers to Northern Ireland's education minister John O'Dowd as "Sinn Fein/IRA!"

An intimate love story between two young women receives rave reviews in Cannes days before the winner of the Palme d'Or is announced.

Taylor Swift, Twilight and Justin Bieber are all nominated in this year's Teen Choice Awards.

The BBC is to close its Digital Media Initiative, with director general Tony Hall saying it had "wasted a huge amount of licence fee payers' money".

Fan fiction authors will be able to publish and sell some titles in the US via new e-book platform Kindle Worlds.

Damian Lewis and Sienna Miller are among the British stars nominated for the annual US Critics' Choice Awards.

US photographer Annie Leibovitz wins the 50,000 euro (£40,000) Prince of Asturias award for communication and humanities.

Officers in Londonderry admit the Radio 1 event is their biggest police operation this year and they will "curb any anti-social behaviour".

Bradley Cooper talks about the final film in The Hangover series

Margaret Harrison, 72, wins the £16,500 Northern Art Prize for a recreation of the perimeter fence from the Greenham Common airbase.

The book group that can crush an author's hopes or find a bestseller

South African rapper determined to prove Afrikaans is "cool"

It is 25 years since the opening of Tate Liverpool - the first Tate gallery established outside London.

Thousands of mourners attend the funeral of renowned Nigerian author Chinua Achebe in his home town of Ogidi in Anambra state.

A necklace reportedly worth 1.9m euros (£1.6m) is stolen during the Cannes film festival, the second such theft to hit this year's event.

A Russian court denies parole to a hunger-striking member of punk band Pussy Riot, Maria Alyokhina, despite calls for her to be freed.

Comedian Ricky Gervais has confirmed that Derek is back for a second series and viewers in the US will see the first on Netflix.