The Royal Shakespeare Company (RSC) has launched one of the UK's most ambitious theatre projects, in Shakespeare's birthplace of Stratford-upon-Avon.
The year-long Complete Works festival, which begins on the anniversary of the bard's death, will stage his sonnets, poems and all 37 Shakespeare plays.
Dame Judi Dench and Sir Ian McKellen are among the performers taking part.
RSC artistic director Michael Boyd told the BBC that the event would be a "national knees-up".
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All but one of the rare LDS books stolen recently have been recovered.
Last week, thieves broke into the Daughters of Utah Pioneers Museum through a window. Once inside, they went directly to this display case and took 14 rare LDS texts, including two first edition copies of the Book of Mormon and early foreign language copies.
A tip led police and postal inspectors to mailboxes in West Valley City this morning. They found an envelope addressed to, "President Hinckley, LDS Church, Important." Inside were two copies of the Book of Mormon, including one in Italian.
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A rare book of Shakespeare's plays, considered to be one of the most important in British literature, is to be auctioned at Sotheby's in London.
The complete first folio of the playwright's work had a print run of approximately 750 in 1623.
However, only a third of these survive and most of them are incomplete.
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Is the layoff the great American wound? In Louis Uchitelle's account, it seems a wound in triplicate. It hollows out companies so they can't compete. It hollows out the country by removing middle-class jobs. It hollows out the middle-class employees who are laid off and then too often drop permanently to a demeaning, low-wage way of life. To Mr. Uchitelle, who reports on economics for The New York Times, corporate America's addiction to the layoff has gone past the point of economic rationality. In this fascinating book he tries to tell the history of the United States in our time as the unchecked rise of layoffs.
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A work of prodigious research, "Cobra II" will likely become the benchmark by which other histories of the Iraq invasion are measured. Note the word invasion. Cobra II was the name United States commanders gave the operation to depose Saddam Hussein's regime. It is the story of the planning, execution and immediate aftermath of that invasion that is related by Michael R. Gordon, The New York Times's chief military correspondent, and Bernard E. Trainor, a retired Marine Corps lieutenant general and former military correspondent for The Times, in "Cobra II."
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A claim that Dan Brown's bestselling novel The Da Vinci Code copied the ideas of two other authors has gone before London's High Court.
Michael Baigent and Richard Leigh say Mr Brown stole "the whole architecture" of research that went into their 1982 book The Holy Blood and the Holy Grail.
Both books contain the idea Jesus had a child. They are suing publisher Random House, which denies the allegation.
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