Mother welcomes murder charge two decades after Arthur Haines, 13, died in Sydney house fire | New S
New South Wales This article is more than 1 year oldMother welcomes murder charge two decades after Arthur Haines, 13, died in Sydney house fireThis article is more than 1 year oldGregory Walker charged with alleged murder and arson after Haines died from burns following petrol bombing of Sydney house in 1998
Get our free news app, morning email briefing or daily news podcast The mother of 13-year-old Arthur Haines, who police alleged was murdered in 1998, says she is ecstatic police have arrested a suspect more than two decades after his death.
Night by Elie Wiesel
Classics cornerHistory booksReviewThis memoir is a horrifying portrait of the Holocaust, says Phil MongredienElie Wiesel was 15 when the Nazis came for the 15,000 Jews of his hometown of Sighet, Transylvania, in May 1944. Upon arrival at Auschwitz-Birkenau, his mother and sister were murdered within hours, while he was put to work as a slave labourer. Eight months later, the Germans evacuated the camp and forced the survivors on a death march that ended at Buchenwald.
Paul Watson obituary | Documentary
DocumentaryObituaryPaul Watson obituaryDocumentary TV film-maker who pioneered the fly-on-the-wall approach with programmes such as The Family, The Dinner Party and Malcolm & Barbara ... A Love Story
Paul Watson, who has died aged 81 after suffering from dementia, was a distinguished television documentary-maker who pioneered fly-on-the-wall films, bringing people’s daily lives into viewers’ living rooms. He made his reputation in 1974 with The Family, a 12-part series following Terry and Margaret Wilkins and their children in Reading, Berkshire.
Why did this young man have such a hold on me? How dating someone half my age rebooted my sex
Emma Forrest: ‘I had been celibate by choice for four years.’ Photograph: Thomas DuffieldEmma Forrest: ‘I had been celibate by choice for four years.’ Photograph: Thomas DuffieldDatingAfter splitting from my husband and four years of celibacy, getting out there was daunting. Was I ready to be the ‘older woman’?
In the decade I lived in California, before I moved back to Britain in 2018, men would sometimes approach me in cafes or the gym, once at the Norton Simon museum, where Eve Babitz had played nude chess with Marcel Duchamp.
'Did I ever really know him?': the women who married gay men
LGBTQ+ rightsA Sydney counselling service is filling in what’s often missing in the married man coming out narrative – the woman’s voice Megan Holgate couldn’t quite believe where she was.
It was the height of the Aids crisis and she was in the waiting room of an inner-city STI clinic, frequented by those most at risk of HIV: gay men, injecting drug users, sex workers.
Not, as she had been, a monogamous married businesswoman.
2023 saw record killings by US police. Who is most affected?
People protest the death of Tyre Nichols in Memphis, Tennessee, on 28 January 2023. Photograph: Scott Olson/Getty ImagesPeople protest the death of Tyre Nichols in Memphis, Tennessee, on 28 January 2023. Photograph: Scott Olson/Getty ImagesUS policingOfficers killed at least 1,232 people last year – the deadliest year for homicides by law enforcement in over a decade, data shows
Police in the US killed at least 1,232 people last year, making 2023 the deadliest year for homicides committed by law enforcement in more than a decade, according to newly released data.
Advice for the parents of octuplets, from a family with firsthand knowledge | US news
US news This article is more than 14 years oldAdvice for the parents of octuplets, from a family with firsthand knowledgeThis article is more than 14 years old Nkem Chukwu and Ikye Louis's children are now aged 10
Texas couple suggest new parents 'sleep when they can'There are not many people in a position to offer advice to the unnamed woman who gave birth on Monday to eight babies in a hospital in southern California.
Earth on verge of five catastrophic climate tipping points, scientists warn | Environment
Environment This article is more than 1 month oldEarth on verge of five catastrophic climate tipping points, scientists warnThis article is more than 1 month oldHumanity faces ‘devastating domino effects’ including mass displacement and financial ruin as planet warms
Many of the gravest threats to humanity are drawing closer, as carbon pollution heats the planet to ever more dangerous levels, scientists have warned.
Five important natural thresholds already risk being crossed, according to the Global Tipping Points report, and three more may be reached in the 2030s if the world heats 1.
Gustave Courbet's The Origin of the World still over-excites art critics | Gustave Courbet
Jonathan Jones on artGustave CourbetGustave Courbet's The Origin of the World still over-excites art criticsRe-evaluation of Courbet's 1866 painting – after the discovery of a fragment that could be from the same canvas – should not distract from the artist's geniusGustave Courbet's painting The Origin of the World is a provocative icon of modern art. Painted in 1866 by an artist who shocked contemporaries with his tough depictions of real life, it can still shock today.
In brief: Small Fires: An Epic in the Kitchen; This Beating Heart; The Latecomer reviews
The ObserverBooksReviewA gripping kitchen memoir, an intensely emotive novel about fertility, and a sharp family saga
Small Fires: An Epic in the KitchenRebecca May Johnson
One, £14.99, pp240
At the start of her first book, writer, academic and fearless boundary-basher Johnson confides a desire to “blow up the kitchen”. Small Fires does exactly that, rebuilding something epic from morsels of funny memoir, acute social criticism and food writing the likes of which you’ll never have read before.