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BBC News website editor Steve Herrmann said the new-look site will not revert to its previous design, despite complaints of it being "fussy" and "chaotic".

Hollywood superstars Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie accepted undisclosed damages today to settle their privacy action over claims that they were separating.

There’s quite the scandal brewing across the Atlantic at the moment, and for once it’s not one Liberals are having to watch through the cracks of their fingers.

Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie are expected to settle their privacy claim against the News of the World today.

Plans to reserve more of the so-called sporting "crown jewels" for free-to-air broadcasting was shelved yesterday until at least 2013 by Hugh Robertson, the sports minister.

Thousands of BBC staff, including journalists and technicians, are to be balloted for industrial action in a row over pensions, unions announced yesterday.

There's always a gaggle of ageing autograph hunters lingering around the door of Western House, the central London home of BBC Radio 2 along with its newly famous sister station, BBC 6 Music. This is a spot where the stars come thick and fast. As I arrive, the big-haired soul diva Macy Gray heads into the lifts with her entourage. On the fourth floor, the London singer Jamie Lidell is performing live for an enthusiastic Lauren Laverne, star presenter of 6 Music.

The Ugandan xylophonists, the Sufi fakir and Saddam Hussein's favourite pop star. It sounds like the line-up for an indie rock festival but it is, in fact, the latest offering from the BBC – an extraordinary collection of some of the most unlikely and most beautiful music ever recorded.

He works as a labourer, sings (in a cracked voice) about the "dogs and concrete" of New York, and his earnings from the glamorous world of entertainment have hitherto been limited to $1,000 for appearing in an underwear ad. But Ekrem Jevric – or the "Borat of the Balkans" as he is becoming known – has succeeded where many others have failed by uniting the former Yugoslavia with his song about the lonely and confusing world of an immigrant abroad.

China's most popular blogger, Han Han, famous for poking fun at prominent figures and officials, on Thursday hinted even he has had to bite his tongue in a tightly controlled media landscape.

The name of hugely popular science fiction thriller Inception has shot back into the top of Twitter's most talked about topics on the morning of July 22.

Slamstr.com is the world's first social network entirely dedicated to insulting people. It lets you send rude words or tasteless comments to all those people you love to hate - anonymously.

An ad for bookmakers Paddy Power in which a cat is kicked across a football pitch by blind players will remain on screen despite more than 1,000 complaints, a watchdog said today.

A Burger King advertising campaign has been banned after customers complained that their chicken takeaways were far smaller than portrayed.

Conrad Black could be back, sooner rather than later. He may have raged against the "xenophobia" he found in Britain, its "back-scratching" media and – in spite of being granted a peerage – the "trackless mysteries of British socioeconomic strata". He may have once said he would never set foot in Britain again. But Lord Black of Crossharbour, shortly to be released on bail from a Florida prison, is planning his return.

Google's share of the Chinese search engine market fell in the second quarter while the US Internet giant was embroiled in a public battle with Beijing over censorship, a research firm said Wednesday.

The number of people using Facebook hit the 500 million mark on Wednesday, meaning one in every 14 people on the planet has now signed up to online social-networking service.

A new iPad application called "Flipboard" is garnering lots of excitement from social networking fans and technology bloggers alike.

Memes are filling the top of Twitter's most talked about topics on the morning of July 21.

Playboy founder Hugh Hefner launched a new website on Tuesday stripped of his trademark nude playmates in a bid to make it "safe for work.