Suu Kyi begins UK visit on birthday

Burmese pro-democracy campaigner Aung San Suu Kyi is to begin a four-day visit to the UK, the first time in 24 years that she has visited the country that was once her home.
The Nobel laureate will meet Prime Minister David Cameron and Foreign Secretary William Hague during her stay, before addressing Parliament on Thursday.
Ms Suu Kyi will spend her 67th birthday in London and Oxford, the city where she lived in the early 1980s with her late husband, academic Michael Aris and their sons Alexander and Kim.
On Wednesday, the Burmese opposition leader, who spent much of the last 21 years under house arrest in her native country, will be presented with an honorary degree by Oxford University and is due to address the Oxford Union.
She arrived in the UK on Monday night from the Republic of Ireland, where she met the president, Michael D Higgins, and U2 singer Bono, who presented her with Amnesty International's Ambassador of Conscience award.
Accepting her award at the Electric Burma concert at the Bord Gais Energy Theatre, she said she had found the whole experience "totally unexpected".
"To receive this award is to remind me that 24 years ago, I took on duties from which I have never been relieved," said Ms Suu Kyi.
"But you have given me the strength to carry them out. You have shown me that I shall never be alone as I go about my discharge of these duties."
Other recipients of the Amnesty award include former Irish president Mary Robinson and Nelson Mandela, with whom Ms Suu Kyi has been compared.
In by-elections held on April 1 this year she was elected to parliament for the constituency of Kawhmu following a landslide victory.