The best of: First Dog on the Moon cartoons 2023 | First Dog on the Moon | Global
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A tale of two sisters | Health & wellbeing
Health & wellbeingA tale of two sistersA yaan Hirsi Ali and her sister, Haweya, grew up in conditions that most western psychologists would consider traumatic. Circumcised as little girls in Somalia, and abandoned by their father, a rebel leader, they were raised as refugees in Saudi Arabia, Ethiopia and Kenya. Isolated and desperate, their mother would beat them mercilessly. Subjected to harsh Islamic teachings, they were also beaten by their ma'alim - once so badly that Ayaan nearly died.
Katie Taylor gets Dublin homecoming but a shadow lingers over Irish boxing | Katie Taylor
Katie Taylor (centre) takes on Chantelle Cameron (right) in Dublin on Saturday but gang wars involving Daniel Kinahan (second left) remain linked to boxing in the country, while Shane McGuigan (left) has seen his fighter removed from the bill. Composite: Guardian DesignFor seven years elite boxing has been absent from Ireland after a gangland murder at a Dublin weigh-in. On Saturday it returns but uncertainty surrounds Taylor’s long-awaited first pro fight on home soil
Life modelling: and now for the nudes
The Whitechapel takeoverArtLife models face draughty studios, unflattering personal comments and lingering social disapproval. Artist Fiona Banner thought they deserved a chance to speak for themselves - so she sent Laura Barnett to meet someIn an upstairs room overlooking a park, 51-year-old Judith Castle is preparing to take off her clothes. "I should really have taken these off earlier," she says, bending down to unzip her boots. "They hate sock marks.
Nicotine-free vapes sold on Amazon found to contain nicotine | Vaping
Vaping This article is more than 3 months old‘Nicotine-free’ vapes sold on Amazon found to contain nicotineThis article is more than 3 months oldGuardian investigation finds six of seven tested vapes were being sold in breach of UK law
Vapes sold on Amazon as “nicotine-free” have been found by a Guardian investigation to contain the highly addictive substance.
The Guardian tested seven products from the online marketplace that stated on the sellers’ pages that they contained no nicotine, and six were found to contain the stimulant.
Poem of the week: The Twa Corbies by Anonymous
Carol Rumens's poem of the weekPoetryIn this possibly very ancient Scottish ballad, two carrion crows cast a cold and hungry eye over a dead knight
The Twa CorbiesAs I was walking all alane,
I heard twa corbies making a mane;
The tane unto the t’other say,
‘Where sall we gang and dine to-day?’
‘In behint yon auld fail dyke,
I wot there lies a new-slain knight;
And naebody kens that he lies there,
Prince Harry taken to drink and drugs rehab clinic | UK news
The ObserverUK news This article is more than 22 years oldPrince Harry taken to drink and drugs rehab clinicThis article is more than 22 years oldPrince Harry was taken to a drugs rehabilitation clinic for a day after Prince Charles discovered he had been regularly smoking cannabis and drinking alcohol, it emerged last night.
The prince, 16 at the time, was confronted last year by Prince Charles, who then arranged a visit to Featherstone Lodge, a detox centre for heroin addicts in Peckham, south London.
Prue and Dannys Death Road Trip review the lovely tale of a Bake Off judge and her sons de
TV reviewTelevisionReviewPrue Leith and her Tory MP son hold profoundly opposing views on legalised euthanasia. They tackle them in a sensitive, fascinating show that’s full of nuance and respect
There has been a line of celebrity parent-child “road trips” creeping on to our screens. Bradley Walsh occasionally takes some time off from The Chase in order to travel with his son on Breaking Dad. For five series, Jack Whitehall trotted his curmudgeonly father around the world to try to bond with him on Travels With My Father.
Tampa by Alissa Nutting review
FictionReviewSarah Churchwell on a controversial debut about a female paedophileThe plot of Tampa, a debut novel by Alissa Nutting, is simple: Celeste Price – 26 years old, married, affluent, gorgeous – has just been hired as a schoolteacher in suburban Tampa, Florida. She has chosen to devote her life to the education of 14-year-old boys, ostensibly teaching English. In reality, however, the only education Celeste cares about is carnal. She is driven by a sexual obsession so all-consuming that it determines her every thought and action: all she wants is sex with pubescent boys, all the time.
The forgotten story of ... Kyle Rote Jr, America's first soccer Superstar
The forgotten story of...US sportsKyle Rote Jr entered ABC’s made-for-TV sports contest as America’s best-known soccer player in a publicity-starved sport. He left it in 1977 as a household name
Kyle Rote Jr would be the first to tell you that he was not a soccer superstar, but there was no denying that he was a Superstar.
Four decades ago, Rote Jr proved to be the star of American star athletes when he captured the Superstars TV competition three out of four years.