With a full-scale Commons debate on violence against women due on Thursday, the International Development Committee (at 9.30am) takes evidence on Violence against Women and Girls, from NGOs, international campaigners and detectives from Metropolitan Police Child Abuse Investigation Command.
Artist Luzinterruptus fitted 10, 000 books that had been discarded by public libraries with LED lights and covered the streets of Melbourne with them, and in an exciting development the much-anticipated Low Line underground park in NYC debuted a full-scale model of their incredible fiber-optic solar-concentrating technology in New York City's lower east side.
In Africa there has been much debate around the so-called "Beijing Development Model" whereby successful economic growth through market reforms can be achieved without yielding to full-scale political liberalisation of the type seen in Western liberal democracies.