INTERNATIONAL PAPERS - Mon. 15.02.16: The New York Times publishes a moving account of the death of one of its contacts in Syria, a government soldier killed in Palmyra last year. It's a rare human story among the Syria statistics we're more often given. Also, the UK's Independent newspaper will be shutting down its print publication in March - is this the end of print press or the start of digital journalism? And the BAFTAs spark a host of comic GIFs; we look at a few.