At the Venice Film Festival, no film has been more talked about than Kaouther Ben Hania's The Voice of Hind Rajab, which recounts the story of a six-year-old girl killed in Gaza.

From praying monks and diving swimmers to meteor showers and the tomb of Pope Francis, these are 12 of the most eye-catching and memorable images of the year so far.

Decades before today's homestead look, Welsh lifestyle guru Laura Ashley was selling a rural, nostalgic idyll. Now, her rose-tinted vision of a "simple life" is more popular than ever.

Twenty years on from its premiere, The US Office remains hugely popular comedy comfort food – and this follow-up series, set around an Ohio newspaper, deserves to be just as big a hit.

Director Kathryn Bigelow builds "excruciating tension" in A House of Dynamite.

The wrestler-turned-Hollywood superstar gets vulnerable in this bruising indie drama about mixed martial arts fighting. He's "touching" and could well be nominated for awards.

When the Wolfenden Report was published 68 years ago this week, it pushed for decriminalising male homosexuality – but it also led to a crackdown on sex workers.

Brian Epstein guided the Fab Four from the Cavern Club to global fame. When he died 58 years ago this week, the band was left suddenly adrift.

Sixty-five years ago, a Moscow court handed a 10-year sentence to US airman Francis Gary Powers. The BBC reported on what became a Cold War diplomatic disaster.

In August 2003, a power cut plunged some 50 million people in the US and Canada into darkness, causing chaos and disruption.

In August 1964, three civil rights activists were found dead in the Deep South. The public's response provided the impetus for new civil rights legislation in America.

The F1 champion Niki Lauda had a near-fatal accident in Germany in August 1976. After defying all expectations, he told the BBC in 1977 how he willed himself to stay alive.