Digested week: Murdoch goes soppy (again) and UK leaders get awkward

Rupert Murdoch and Elena Zhukova tied the knot on 1 June at his vineyard estate in Bel Air, California. Photograph: AP

Monday

So much bad news around these days, but at the beginning of this week, like a shaft of pure sunlight, we heard of a nonagenarian finding love and marrying his sweetheart in a small ceremony attended only by his closest business associates and, judging by reports, none of his children.