BBC: Entertainment and Arts

• Diaz's 10-year retirement 'best years' of her life

  Diaz's co-star Jamie Foxx says they persuaded her into the role by asking her "very humbly".

• Acting legend Dame Joan Plowright dies at 95

  She was one of Britain's most acclaimed stage and screen stars and the widow of Sir Laurence Olivier.

• Dame Joan Plowright: Acting star whose first love was theatre

  One of the UK's finest stage actresses, she later appeared in films including Tea with Mussolini.

• Culture secretary rules out funding BBC from taxes

  The culture secretary calls the TV licence "regressive" and is thinking "radically" about alternatives.

• Liam Payne's friend sues singer's dad for defamation

  Roger Nores has contested Geoff Payne's claims he "abandoned" the late One Direction singer.