Prayer: An Arabic Ode to Women

Syria allows a 13 year-old boy to suffer the horrors of a tortured and mutilated end; the 'Wall' explained, a tour of Lebanese Car services (as opposed to Service Taxi), and a tragic Grand Prix.

Find out if you've read any or many of the UK's top 100 books, as deemed by the BBC; See what Scandinavian Arabs think of their 'racist' Norwegian gunman; Check out a Palestinian army of old in their manly army attire; Egyptian media processing their fledgling democracy; On being 'saved' by Islam; And the trend to Google plus-up when some have only just got Facebook sussed.

While London was burning, the Turks were fending their stores, and others', from ruin, and meanwhile many white Brits called for the army to quell the chaos through military force- but David Cameron was not Dictator enough; looking back at destruction of a bigger scale than fire can unleash- Hiroshima in pictures; and Jordan's King Abdullah is keeping his youth happy by talks.