US cable channel Discovery has agreed to buy Scripps Networks, the No 4 most watched US cable network, for $11.9 (€10bn) in a bet that uniting ownership of cable channels like Animal Planet and HGTV will help the company adapt to the changing television landscape.

Peter Moody believes Black Caviar is in tip-top condition as the Australian superstar puts her unblemished record on the line in Saturday’s Diamond Jubilee Stakes at Royal Ascot today.

More than two decades after the US forced him from power, Manuel Noriega returned to Panama as a prisoner and, to many of those he once ruled with impunity, an irrelevant man.

A Chilean air force plane with 21 people aboard, including a popular TV presenter, crashed in the Pacific near the Juan Fernandez islands.