Wings of Desire starts with angels roosting on rooftops, white-clad figures silhouetted against a darkening sky. It ends with an astonishing blast of digital imagery, Birmingham’s Town Hall transformed as the performers move across it.

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Shit Girls Say, the popular Twitter feed and subsequent YouTube video series, has just landed a book deal with Harlequin. Created by two Toronto-based men, Kyle Humphrey and Graydon Sheppard, it pokes fun at a number of clichés and verbal mannerisms often associated with young women.

In the first of a new series debunking modern myths, our writer looks through the smokescreen of smartphones

Within just a few hours of my time with Dragon’s Dogma, gigantic trolls, chimeras and hydras have all tasted the steel of my blade, the notion of 'less is more' clearly not on the agenda of Hideaki Itsuno and his team.

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1. Towns granted city status to mark the Queen's Diamond Jubilee.

Online firm refuses to process payments for ebook sites that sell titles with 'erotic or potentially illegal' content

It is one of those moments when news from the virtual world has kicked real life off the front pages. Google has taken upon itself the right to pass on details of everyone's online life; meanwhile, the mini-chat site Twitter is six years old, and i's Twitter 100, a chart of the most influential tweeters, has been published.

What we love, we're not sure about, we're buying and can't wait for...

A new generation of web addresses is up for grabs. Will the big brands be tempted to splash out – and if so, will it just be to stop the labels falling into the wrong hands?

There's always something gratifying about making an observation about life, the universe and everything, only to see it confirmed in newsprint with figures to back it up.

Actress Audrey Tautou doesn't like fame and has never worked in Hollywood. In fact, she'd rather go sailing, she tells Kaleem Aftab