Andrei Tarkovsky's grave in Russian cemetery, St Genevieve de Bois, Paris. Inscription: to a man who saw angels. http://t.co/IY25LB5U

"Electioneering by other means" - how the Taliban is holding sway in Pakistan's elections by @mohammedhanif  http://bbc.in/133KPnJ 

"Without female correspondents in war zones, the experiences of women there may be only a rumor" via @azmatzahra http://nyti.ms/fr0da4

. @declanwalsh will be on air in 15mins talking about Pakistan + his crazy departure listen live on @bbcworldservice @bbcoutlook

"As you understand, toys, especially imported toys, are not only not citizens of Russia but they are not even people" http://t.co/KPNAR8KC

this dogs face t-shirt range is the most terrifyingly mesmerising thing i've seen http://amzn.to/kUoQxq (h/t @ishmatt!)

@oliverburkeman mango juice mixed with ginger ale. A Cameroonian colleague made it once and it was earthshatteringly life-changing.

A film looking at the decline of the moustache in India. http://t.co/0wICj1kX "a sign of the real man"

@bhopalhouse Skyfall = Home Alone remake.

Distressing news - the baby son of a BBC Arabic colleague killed in Gaza strikes  http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/middleeast/israel/9679461/Baby-son-of-BBC-worker-killed-in-Gaza-strike.html …

probably the best thing about the Olympics - London awaits the giant inflatable bouncy Stonehenge http://t.co/lQxWdUmP

looks like complete utter blackout in #benghazi - we've been trying to speak to people all morning. no phone lines working

Haruki Murakami's amazing & terrifying "The Seventh Man", a story about a Tsunami in Japan. Listen http://bit.ly/gyzyhl via @khanumbilquis

 http://instagr.am/p/V6P8NEQjuz/  cat on the tube as requested by @davelee

"@dalrymplewill politicians should apologise for their own failures. Tony Blair should have apologised for invading Iraq not potato famine"

beautiful: Ottoman maps of Greek ports c1520s  http://bit.ly/VIxfrZ  (cc @kanishktharoor)

For your radio diaries: @bbclysedoucet in conversation with Romila Thapar  http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p011cfvy …

Yelp won't help you find a stoop. lovely long piece by @kanishktharoor on nyc's lost soul http://t.co/lO0QDLEH

A short history of body language- eastern jews and southern italians in 1940s nyc http://t.co/R97KMBX5

In downtown Homs, a shortcut through the deserted national museum to avoid the street snipers and shelling http://t.co/AswSzik2 (1min30 in)