We spoke to the people involved in the four-year conservation of the Sheldonian's magnificent painted ceiling.

Author and Oxford graduate Philip Pullman was present at a silent vigil to save the Jericho area's boatyard from development.

I am sitting in downtown Beirut with some London-Lebanese. It's truly incredible to listen to the way people talk in this city. They'll begin a sentence in Arabic, throw in some French words and then finish up in English. "So Habibi, where have you been."