The British star won a Bafta for the hit 1997 film, and was nominated for two Oscars.

His credits ranged from British films like The Full Monty to Hollywood hits like Rush Hour.

Actress Emilia Clarke and her mother Jenny are named in the New Year Honours for brain charity work.

Pop music was in a state of flux in 2023, but here are some of the year’s most memorable tracks.

The author speaks to the BBC after being recognised in the 2024 New Year Honours list.

Anna Lapwood has also introduced her 690,000 TikTok followers to organ music.

Britain’s first professional black ballerina is among Cornish people named in the New Year Honours.

Other Welsh recipients include a teenage cancer fundraiser and a water safety campaigner.

The Glastonbury Festival founder is among hundreds of people featured on this year’s honours list.

TV presenter and influencer Nastya Ivleeva organised a Moscow party that has sparked a moral backlash.

The secretive artist pens a rare statement about the late comedy pioneer and “born troublemaker”.

Relentless media coverage over allegations of drug use stalked Lee Sun-kyun’s final months.

Richard Dormer from Game of Thrones and Blue Lights is one of Northern Ireland’s most successful actors.

It comes more than a year after she revealed her engagement during a live BBC weather forecast.

Stars and doctors hope Russell T Davies’s BBC drama Men Up can help end impotence stigma.

Reports allege Beijing asked Mayday to make pro-China comments and threatened the band when they refused.

Britney, Stephen King and Chigozie Obioma also have new books coming out in the next 12 months.

The former James Bond star allegedly left the trail near a dangerous and sensitive hot spring.

The former US president angrily responds to comments from the film’s director Chris Columbus.

Best-known for the musical Sarafina!, he showed the world the lives of black people under apartheid.

Artyom Kamardin and Yegor Shtovba were detained last year for taking part in an event in Moscow.

The presenter’s return to the ITV ice dance show follows her decision to quit This Morning.

Court documents say the star’s son is suffering from drug abuse and mental health issues.

The fan collapsed at a Taylor Swift concert in Rio de Janeiro during a heatwave in the Brazilian city.

People are asked to plant a flower or tree if they want to remember the British poet.

The singer says walking in the great outdoors was one of the only ways to make her feel better.

Heartstopper actress Bel Priestley says she wants to support others after being bullied while growing up.

Sales of vinyl LPs continued to rise, with Taylor Swift’s 1989 becoming this year’s best-selling record.

The Glock has been the weapon of choice for armed forces, gun owners and criminals around the world.

Chatty, irreverent and engaged, JS was more than a magazine – it shaped an Indian cosmopolitanism.