Pick of the week

16 December - 22 December

BBC News Online presents a round-up of some of the week's more remarkable stories covered by BBC correspondents.

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Madonna's son takes centre stage

Madonna, Guy Richie and baby Rocco

On Thursday Madonna and Guy Ritchie had their son Rocco baptised at Dornoch Cathedral in the Highlands of Scotland. On Friday the couple prepared for their wedding ceremony near Inverness.

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Riots in Turkey's jails

Turkish inmate being taken to hospital

More than 20 people died and hundreds were injured following three days of bloody rioting in Turkey's prisons, as a government attempt to break up a hunger strike by inmates ends in mayhem

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Chess set-piece in Iran

Chess players at the tournament in Iran

The final of the world chess championship was held in the game's birthplace - where until recently it was banned after the Islamic revolution in 1979.

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Kneeding noodles

Chinese food restaurant

Few people value their food as highly as the Chinese. But the time-honoured methods and skills of Hong Kong cuisine are under threat as the younger generation abandon the kitchen for the stock market or high finance. But in London some of the old skills live on.

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Double-take

Amitabh Bachchan with his waxwork

Madame Tussauds creates a waxwork of the actor recently voted by BBC News Online's readers as the greatest star of stage and screen, Amitabh Bachchan.

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