China will tonight take responsibility for a place and a people which matter greatly to us all.

Addressing all these threats to our long-term survival will clearly require a massive and coordinated response from all sectors of society and in all nations.

With the support of the Islamic Development Bank, my charities will be able to increase their efforts to address the challenges we face in Britain's cities and help those younger British Muslims who feel they have little or no stake in society to play a fuller part in the country's affairs.

I hope other newspapers will show restraint and not use these pictures.

It's funny, the influence that women can have on getting us men sorted out is enormous. I don't know why it is, but so often men have to come up against a brick wall before they suddenly realize they have to alter their way of operating in order to improve their health.

I think, as probably many of you will know from the experience of family loss, perhaps in your own lives, it is inevitably very difficult to cope with grief at any time, but perhaps you might realize it is even harder when the whole world is watching.