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Justin Bieber challenges Tom Cruise to UFC fight By Chris Bell BBC News Image copyright Getty Images It is the contest Ultimate Fighting Championship (UFC) fans never knew they wanted. On Sunday, Justin Bieber challenged Tom Cruise to join him in the octagon (the UFC ring) to solve a problem so fiendishly difficult no-one had […]

Image copyright Getty Images Image caption Stroker won best featured actress for her role as Ado Annie in musical Oklahoma! Oklahoma! actress Ali Stroker has become the first wheelchair user to be nominated for, and win, a Tony Award. She won best featured actress for her role as Ado Annie in the Broadway play. She

Image copyright PA Up to 3.7 million pensioners who previously received a free TV licence will now have to pay for it. The BBC will scrap blanket free licences for over-75s, but households with one person who receives Pension Credit will still be eligible. The BBC said “fairness” was at the heart of the ruling,

Image copyright Getty Images Image caption Hume came to prominence with other YBA creatives in the 1990s Artist and judge of this year’s Portrait Award by BP, Gary Hume, has said it’s time to look elsewhere for sponsorship of the BP Portrait Award. The National Portrait Gallery prize has been sponsored by BP for 30

Adrian Mole the musical opens in the West End on Saturday. Author Sue Townsend’s novel of the puzzled and perplexed pupil aged 13¾ has sold more than 20 million copies since it was first published in 1982. After seven years development in regional theatre it opens for a three-month run at the Ambassadors Theatre in

Eva Schloss is 90 years old. Her father and brother both died in Auschwitz concentration camp, but her mother survived and was later remarried to Otto Frank, Anne Frank’s father, after the war. “Anne has become a symbol of the one-and-a-half million Jewish children who died” said Eva. “This will be the last generation of

Image copyright Reuters Image caption The star is due to release an album of collaborations later this year Ed Sheeran was the most-played artist in the UK last year, while Feel It Still by Portugal The Man was 2018’s most-played song. Sheeran topped the chart despite not releasing new music; and without an entry in

On the heels of the black arts movement of the 1980s, Iniva (The Institute of International Visual Arts) was founded to create a space for black artists ignored by the mainstream art world. The core of Iniva as an arts organisation is the Stuart Hall Library. Named after the renowned British-Jamaican cultural theorist, the Stuart

Image copyright Aitor Throup As 21st Century rock ‘n’ roll names go, they don’t come much bigger in the UK than Serge Pizzorno. Over the past 15 years his tub-thumping band Kasabian have been selling out stadiums and headlining festivals like Glastonbury. The guitarist/singer’s name has also been synonymous with wonder goals at Soccer Aid

Image copyright Netflix Image caption Laura Linley (left) and Olympia Dukakis have starred in all four series of Tales of the City More than 20 years since Armistead Maupin’s Tales of the City books were first made into a series for UK TV, a new adaptation for global audiences begins this week with a 10-part