With Brad Pitt and Cate Blanchett as a couple that gets in trouble in Morocco, Adriana Barraza as their housekeeper and nanny back home with the kids in San Diego, and Rinko Kikuchi as a teen-age girl in Tokyo desperate for the embrace of a man.

NEWYORKER: Babel

The family of a six-year-old girl with a rare syndrome which means she cannot smile said they are desperate for more research into the condition.

BBC: Six-year-old Nottingham girl Mia Blackwell cannot smile