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Cardinal Daro Castrilln Hoyos sleeps in the bed that Pope Pius XII died in. The painting of the immaculate conception hanging above the bronze bedhead once belonged to Leo XIII. His apartment, lying 30 metres from the border between Italy and the Holy See, belongs to the Vatican and his study looks on to the

Everyone who played Epic Mafia knew Eris, or at least knew of him. In real life, he was a 32-year-old computer programmer, who lived alone with his border collie in upstate New York, but in the tight-knit online gaming community of Epic Mafia, he was a celebrity, the impresario of the sites many forums, constantly

I could not get as excited as some by Stephen Adly Guirgis's Jesus Hopped The 'A' Train when it showed last year at the Donmar. But, although I have yet to be convinced he is a major talent, this earlier play shows a compassion for the deadbeat denizens of New York's Hell's Kitchen that surpasses

The Red House is a closely observed domestic drama that gives the impression of being a random slice-of-life, but in which every character is coming to terms with something or experiencing a revelation. The action is subtle and often interior, and what really counts is not what happens so much as the sharp observations of

Fri 6 Jun 2008 07.31EDT First published on Fri 6 Jun 2008 07.31EDT Photograph: Yoan Valat/EPA Photograph: Eric Feferberg/AP Photograph: Francois Mori /AP Photograph: Dominique Charriau/Getty Photograph: Martin Bureau/AFP