Last refreshed at 0800GMT WednesdayThe World in a Window | March 11, 2010

1 The Lancet retracts a 1998 paper by Andrew Wakefield, contending that vaccination caused autism

2 A short history of restaurant criticism in New York, post-Craig Claiborne

3 More than 14,000 people have signed a petition urging the mayor of Paris to save the city from becoming "the European capital of boredom"

4 A neurologist reads Virginia Woolf: "Mental illness motivates her art far more than supposed choices to rebel, prove herself, win parental approval, or other so-called reasonable explanations"