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.

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.

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

This is the kind of loss that nobody has any experience of.