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Wikileaks publishes Sony documents

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Wikileaks has published hundreds of thousands of emails and documents from a cyber-attack on Sony Pictures Entertainment last year.

Live Entertainment Live: 17 April 2015

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Shock exit for National Theatre boss

Tessa Ross steps down as chief executive of the National Theatre just six months into the job.

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