• I'll be blogging about what I find in the coming days, but wanted to give you an initial flavour of life in this famous city, which sits on a dusty coastal plain just below a green, almost Tuscan, range of low hills.

    BBC: The festive gunfire of Benghazi

  • By the mid 19th Century thousands of coastal sailing ships were entering the port each year bringing an enormous range of goods to the capital.

    BBC: Canary Wharf

  • We have state-of-the-art equipment in the water that allows us to know very quickly if a tsunami has been generated, and a range of alert mechanisms have been put into place in coastal areas make sure official warnings reach local populations.

    UNESCO: Building the Wealth of Nations

  • The anniversary celebrations over the year range from a hike to St Dogmaels along the same Pembrokeshire coastal paths medieval pilgrims would have taken, to a medieval day and Shakespeare in the abbey.

    BBC: St Dogmaels Abbey

  • Andrew Krepinevich, a radical defence analyst whose thinking has been endorsed, in part, by Mr Rumsfeld, cites several weapon systems which deserve higher priority: long-range bombers, missiles and unmanned aircraft, ships designed for coastal warfare, and submarines which can fire cruise missiles.

    ECONOMIST: Defence policy

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