The Lone Ranger (12A) opens in San Francisco in 1933, with an aged Native American warrior, Tonto (Johnny Depp), telling a young boy about how the legend of the West’s masked lawman began.

It is a century since Edgar Rice Burroughs’s iconic creation appeared in print. Richard Fitzpatrick looks at the evolution of oneof the most famous fictional characters of our times

Two explosions rocked Baghdad’s heavily-fortified Green Zone in quick succession today and a US military spokesman said initial reports showed that eight people were killed and four wounded.