Oriana Fallaci, the Italian journalist noted for her vitriolic attacks on Islam, has died , aged 76, in a hospital in Florence. A proper journalist, she was almost killed in Mexico, made Kissinger tug at his collar, and was willing to go to jail for her views (although some of them were a bit barmy).

Also, if these photos are anything to go by, she also succeeded in making that absurd archetype, the glamorous smoker, seem plausible.