Rising hostility to media, Turkey holds BBC reporter and Balls' last dance

A Donald Trump supporter at a rally in Minneapolis makes his feelings about journalists known. Photograph: Jonathan Ernst/Reuters

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Index on Censorship: journalists now under ‘unprecedented’ attack

Turkey detains BBC journalist reporting on mine disaster

Big football clubs take on Facebook with new social media network

Ed Balls leaves Strictly Come Dancing after ‘fabulous three months’

X Factor stage invaders disrupt live show

Boost for women’s sport as Sky signs biggest ever rights deal for UK netball

Ash Atalla: white middle class ‘swept away’ decision to close BBC3

David Walliams to host first of ITV’s US-style late night shows

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Honey G has left the X Factor Photograph: Beretta/Sims/REX/Shutterstock

X Factor’s Honey G eliminated – but the glasses stayed on (Mirror)

Sky to launch mobile service to dial up TV business (Telegraph)

CNN Boston provider denies porn was aired instead of Anthony Bourdain (The Hollywood Reporter)

Jon Stewart and Stephen Colbert nearly left Comedy Central in 2012, book reveals (Variety)

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‘He led a humble life’: Fidel Castro’s biographer on the legacy of a revolutionary

Fidel Castro long claimed he had fooled the New York Times into thinking he had a huge army instead of a handful of men, but was the claim itself fake?