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In pictures: Crop circles in the UK John Vidal on the revival of crop circles Google UK's homepage is today given over to a "doodle" showing a flying saucer hovering over crop circles. The word "Google" is spelt out in several crop circles, with what appears to be a tractor completing the letter "L".

Experts say crucial details prove that V&As Virgin with the Laughing Child is the masters work The curators of an exhibition in Florence have this week unveiled what they claim is the only surviving sculpture by Leonardo da Vinci.

One of the pleasanter things for which Benito Mussolini is remembered is having made Italian trains run on time. With ex-fascists back in the government and a prime minister, Silvio Berlusconi, who has promised to kick-start the economy through massive public investment projects, the prospects for the Italian railway system ought to be rosy.

Richard Pasco, who has died aged 88, was one of the finest classical actors of his generation. Though he did not achieve the star status that would have come from appearing in a long-running TV series, no one who saw it will ever forget his alternation of the roles of Richard II and Bolingbroke in

Steve McQueen in bed, Ai Weiwei in trouble, Pussy Riot in church and Ragnar Kjartansson in the bath theyre all included in our countdown of the best art since 2000 Almost an hour long, Tacita Deans film is a summation of her work to date. Poet Anne Carson and actor Stephen Dillane move through