News Headlines - 10 March 2013

▽'The Queen’s leadership is special' - Telegraph

The Queen was due to sign a new Commonwealth charter on Monday setting out for the first time in a single document the organisation’s “core values and the aspiration of its members”. It includes affirmations on democracy, human rights, international peace and security as well as freedom of expression. It also contains a commitment to “gender equality” and “women’s empowerment”.

▽Stringer to Retire From Sony - WSJ.com

Howard Stringer, Sony Corp.'s former chief executive and current board chairman, plans to retire from the company in June, marking the end of a tumultuous tenure for the British-born executive at the helm of one of Japan's most iconic companies.

▽Inside 'London’s Oxbridge’: a study of life - Telegraph

Inside their five-storey Georgian town house, the students of the New College of the Humanities in London are sitting in the conservatory, happily munching on their lecturer’s chocolate biscuits. Waitrose, no less.

▽Top Gear series 19: the highs and lows - Telegraph

As the latest Top Gear series ends, Telegraph writers remember its best and worst moments.

▽BBC News - Street artist to make Big Issue sellers 'art dealers'

Street artist Stik, known for his graffiti portraits of stick people, is to give away posters of his art in the Big Issue magazine. A run of 75,000 will be printed in four different colours and be available only from Big Issue sellers across the UK. Stik, who was homeless in 2011 and whose works now sell for ￡6,000, said he wanted to "turn the art world on its head". "I wanted to put the art in the hands of homeless people" he told the BBC.