Find A Better Way, the charity founded by Sir Bobby Charlton to improve the lives of individuals and communities around the world affected by landmines, will host a visit of prominent Westminster MPs at the University of Manchester today.

University of Birmingham archaeologist, Jeffrey Rose is among the 15 visionary, young trailblazers from around the world who have been named as the 2012 class of National Geographic Emerging Explorers.

The Bavarian Minister for Culture and Education and senior academics from the University of Glasgow and the University of Munich will be offering their views on national identity in a major conference that will take place at the University of Glasgow on Thursday 17 May 2012.

Sociologists Sridhar Venkatapuram and David Stuckler discuss how tensions within society are slowing down the process of combating disease worldwide.

In tracing the modern history of Germany's policy on intoxicant and drug use, which favours therapy rather than punishment, Cambridge historian Victoria Harris highlights that criminalisation may not be the only route.

When it was announced that Edouard Manet's Portrait of Mademoiselle Claus had been bought by a foreign buyer for £28.35 million, the last hope for the painting to remain on public display was for an approved UK public collection to raise £7.83 million to take advantage of tax remission.

A Pulitzer Prize winner heads the writers vying for Britain's oldest literary awards. - American historian and critic Manning Marable, who was posthumously awarded a Pulitzer Prize, has been shortlisted in the biography category for the James Tait Black Prizes.

This year's China lecture at The University of Manchester is to be delivered by world renowned historian Professor Peter Perdue.