Good week for:

Dame Vera Lynn, the Forces’ sweetheart, whose image was projected onto the white cliffs of Dover to mark her 100th birthday. The 350ft image also celebrated the release of her new album, Vera Lynn 100. Her best-known song, from 1942, refers to “bluebirds” – RAF pilots – flying over the white cliffs of Dover. Le féminisme, after a female author was included on the list of set texts for France’s literature baccalauréat for the first time since the modern exam was introduced, more than 20 years ago. Final-year lycée students will now have to study La Princesse de Montpensier, by Madame de La Fayette, first published in 1662. Norway, which was identified by a UN survey as the happiest country on Earth – toppling neighbouring Denmark from the No. 1 spot. Iceland, Switzerland and Finland were the others in the top five; the US came 14th, and the UK 19th. Syria came 152nd out of 155 countries, slightly below Yemen and South Sudan; Central African Republic came last.