The movie is a sweet, chaste dream of good will, but silent movies were not about good will and restraint.

NEWYORKER: The Artists

Once you have shopped within a whisker of your luggage allowance, grab a Lebanese mezze lunch outdoors at Cafe Layali Zaman on the Corniche (look for the "Baguette" sign), where the hummus is perfectly garlicky, the baba ganoush a smoky, aubergine dream and you might choose to accompany your Arabic coffee with a sweet-scented shisha water-pipe.

BBC: Stopover in Abu Dhabi

Perry and Tyler have been a song-writing team for around 40 years, having penned hits Sweet Emotion, Dream On and Livin' On The Edge.

BBC: Tyler leads 2013 Songwriters Hall of Fame