The poor hyphen. With the news last week that rapper Jay-Z was dropping the hyphen from his name to become simply Jay Z, it becomes the latest diacritical mark to come under sustained pressure from modern usage. We’ve not been this upset since Waterstones boss James Daunt ditched the book chain’s apostrophe.

A museum in northern China has been closed down by local authorities after many of its artefacts were revealed to be fakes.

Any more of this and strawberries and cream will pass for a national dish in Poland. Tomorrow it is the turn of the men to duel for the right to join Agnieszka Radwanska in the Wimbledon semi-finals. No Polish male has ever journeyed so far, indeed for more than two decades from 1986, no Pole appeared in the men's singles at all.

President Obama 'deeply disappointed' by ruling

The Beard Liberation Front has named its Hirsute Personalities of the Year

A travel guide in association with the Belgian Tourist Office

Mons combines modern vitality with nods to its sombre past. By Emily Reynolds

Ghost towns, abandoned government headquarters and decomposing train depots – around the world there are still hundreds of these locations, all infected with the sadness of a forgotten former life

An attempt to bring the only surviving German Second World War Dornier Do 17 bomber from its watery grave in the English Channel has been postponed for at least a week due to bad weather.

An attempt to bring the only surviving German Second World War Dornier Do 17 bomber from its watery grave in the English Channel has been postponed for at least a week due to bad weather.

Recognised as one of the UK's most important photographers of the past 40 years, Brian Griffin was born in 1948 and grew up near Birmingham among the factories of the Black Country.

Internet users name and shame teenager who scratched 3,500-year-old artwork

Shaun Walker meets the Communist party faithful as the Soviet leader goes back on display

Alex Polizzi – the Fixer Returns, BBC2