My friend André de Wet, who has died aged 75, was a photographer with a sharp eye for news pictures and a rare sense of artistry. Born in Cape Town, he was educated at Wellington boys high school, in Cape Province

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André de Wet obituary (Guardian Unlimited)

I spent my first 5 years living in the Vanderveer section of Brooklyn, NY. My very earliest memory in life was of a large stack of Little Golden Books that sat on the floor, next to a big 1950's style sofa.

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Little Golden Books (San Francisco Chronicle)

Suffering from erectile dysfunction or benign prostatic hyperplasia? Go out and buy a book.

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Sex, death ... and Reading (Forbes)

By Abhishek Roy, New Delhi, March 7 : Horst Wein is known in the world of hockey as much as he is in football, a rare multi-faceted character.

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Hockey structure in India is stricken by cancer: Horst Wein (New Kerala)

THE PEOPLE pounding the pavements above are oblivious, but under the streets of central Auckland lies a vault holding comic books of such worth that they have been brought out of their secure holding only three times in the past eight years.

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Comics good as gold (Stuff)

Two parts of an ancient biblical manuscript separated across centuries and continents were reunited for the first time in a joint display Friday, thanks to an accidental discovery that is helping illuminate a dark period in...

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Pieces of rare biblical manuscript reunited (KLTV 7 Tyler)

Detective Comics No.

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Batman triumphs over Superman as comic fetches record price (Guardian Unlimited)

A rare copy of the first comic book featuring Superman has sold for $1 million (£650,000), smashing the previous record price for a comic book.

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Rare copy of first Superman comic changes hands for record $1 million (Times Online)

NEW YORK (AP) -- A rare copy of the first comic book featuring Superman sold Monday for $1 million, smashing the previous record price for a comic book. A 1938 edition of Action Comics No.

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Superman's debut comic book sells for $1-M (Manila Bulletin)

Hot tickets this week: appearances by two of the biggest names in religion and human-rights activism. South Florida gets a rare treat with separate visits by His Holiness the Dalai Lama and Archbishop Emeritus Desmond Tutu . Both will speak to thousands this week at Nova Southeastern University.

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Dalai Lama , Desmond Tutu speeches are hot tickets (Miami Herald)