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If Spike Milligan was the most anarchic member of that cult 1950s BBC Radio show The Goons, Peter Sellers ultimately the richest and Michael Bentine the most sophisticated, Harry Secombe, who has died of prostate cancer aged 79, was the sanest and, in his own way, the most versatile.

A capuchin monkey brandishes a huge kitchen knife while standing on the roof of a bar in the town of Texeira in Paraba, Brazil. The monkey drank remnants of cachaa, a distilled spirit popular in Brazil, from glasses around the bar, and proceeded to chase customers around. It was eventually captured by firefighters and released

This out-of-the-ordinary collection, about the end of a marriage, goes beyond the confessional. Sharon Olds, who has always had a gift for describing intimacy, has, in a sense, had these poems thrown at her by life and allowed them to take root: they are stunning the best of a formidable career. Deserted after decades

Surviving bombs, fires and even secularism, Europes great cathedrals stand defiant. Here are 11 masterpieces of art and architecture Europes cathedrals are its wonders of the world. From Salisbury to Seville, Moscow to Palermo, Trondheim to Istanbul, they tower over its cities, masterpieces of art and architecture whose popularity increases by the generation. Even as

Xand Van Tulleken and Raksha Dave tell the story of a shocking natural disaster. Plus: the Love Island final. Heres what to watch this evening Millions of geological years in the making and yet arriving completely out of the blue, the 2004 Asian tsunami was one of the most shocking natural disasters in recent memory.