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Who says people aren't reading these days? Interest in books is as great as ever — and London department store Selfridges is hoping to prove it with a seven-week event devoted to the printed word.

Thomas Ross, philosopher: "I went to Macy's in San Francisco and entered this little room where Santa was. He was very nice. I wanted to tell Santa psychically what I wanted for Christmas, but he made me say it out loud." Did his wish come true? Click to find out.

Chinese product pirates recently took their art a big step further. They pirated not the products themselves — in this case, Apple computers — but rather the entire store selling them.

A container of goods is loaded at the port of Oakland, California. The crisis at the nuclear power station in Fukushima, Japan, has governments and transport companies worried about radioactivity. Find out what the US government said about this last week.

A book consisting of 200 blank pages has become a success in Britain — currently ranking far higher on Amazon's sales chart than either The Da Vinci Code or Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix. While not well-written, the book is funny. Find out what its title is.