This week was this way
Week 26
Left: Queen is longest reigning monarch, Sex Pistols’ God Save the Queen graffiti from album cover designed by Jamie Reid
Right: RHS Wisley Flower Show, flowers at Wisley
Week 24
Top: Tate ‘sensorium’ explores whether taste, touch, smell and sound change the way people experience art; Diagram of a cocoa bean
Bottom: Chinese stock market meltdown; Beijing at night
Week 23
Left: Russian police bust international cheese smuggling gang who bootlegged £20 million pounds of banned western cheese into Russia. Still Life with Cheese 1615.
Right: Laibach are the first rock band to perform in North Korea in a concert to mark the 70th anniversary of liberation from Japanese control. Photograph by Thomas Stegh