Reuters: Dinosaur for sale 14 March

Excitement mounted among Harry Potter fans worldwide Friday as the clock ticked down to the release of the last instalment of his adventures. With only hours to go before the 2301 GMT publication of "Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows" in most of the world, queues built up outside bookstores, bracing for a record demand for the seventh and final adventure. Images and soundbites from a bookshop in Bethesda, Maryland.

The rare skeleton of a triceratops is the star attraction at a Christie's auction in Paris on Wednesday, only the second dinosaur fossil of this size ever to go under the hammer. Unearthed from the badlands of North Dakota in 2004, the mud-brown skeleton once roamed the Earth some 65 million years ago.

Chocaholics can now be treated to the equivalent of 5000 bars of chocolate, in the form of a huge egg. The egg, which has been a popular attraction, is on sale at London department store, Selfridges.

Iranians voted on Friday in elections expected to tighten the conservatives' grip on parliament, following the mass disqualification of most of the candidates of the reformist coalition. Their sidelining means it will be difficult to use the vote to gauge the real popularity of President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, amid widespread discontent over the country's economic situation and continuing tensions with the West over the Iranian nuclear programme. An AFPTV report.

An alternate history of the world, in which all our wrongs are found to stem from an accident involving an angel, a watermelon seed, and a dinosaur. Guest starring the President of the United States, the Military-Industrial Complex, and God. Also, a music promo for the ever-wonderful Flipron.

Pop star Madonna gave a private concert in the Olympia concert hall in Paris on Tuesday, in the run-up to her 2008 Hard Candy tour. Images of the concert.

"Devil May Care", the 15th James Bond adventure novel, was released on Wednesday to mark the 100th anniversary of the birth of his creator, Ian Fleming. Fans queued overnight to secure the first copies of the book written by Sebastian Faulks.

The French-born American artist Louise Bourgeois claims she chose art over life. But it is a lifetime of that dedication which is on show in a major retrospective making its tour of the world. It's now arrived at the Pompidou Centre in Paris, with more than 200 works spanning seven decades of work.

The Beijing Olympic flame ended its chaotic relay journey through Paris Monday, marred by citywide protests against China's crackdown in Tibet that forced the torchbearers to take refuge in a bus. The flame arrived in a bus escorted by around 30 police officers for a ceremony at the Charlety Stadium after its journey by foot was cut short half way to its final destination. Moments after the Olympic torch set off from the Eiffel Tower, protests forced the organisers to extinguish the torch, and place the flame on an accompanying bus for safety. An AFPTV report.