The need of a home simply cannot be ruled out. It gives the assurance that whatever might happen, one would always have a roof above one’s head to seek asylum from the brutality of the times. However, what is most heart-wrenching is the fact that like so many other things, this era has made this basic requirement... 

Five Confetti shops have been closed and 48 staff made redundant. Photograph: Rex Features Panicky brides-to-be turned to internet chatrooms for help today after it emerged that Confetti, an online retailer selling wedding paraphernalia ranging from dresses to tiaras and insurance, had collapsed... 

Perhaps putting Ann Widdecombe in charge of the BBC Trust might assauge Tory fears over TV news impartiality, writes Peter Preston. Photograph: Peter Macdiarmid/Getty Images Paul Farrelly, the Labour MP for Newcastle-under-Lyme, had a Commons question for our new culture secretary last week.... 

AP Photo/Durmus Genc, Anatolian Aug. 12: Turkish Culture Minister Ertugrul Gunay inspecting an ancient marble coffin inside an underground tomb in Milas, western Turkey. Police raided a house used by people suspected of digging illegally for antiquities and discovered two tunnels leading to the tomb. The Culture...