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Rugby World Cup 2023Captain’s tournament in severe doubt with advice of surgical specialist likely to determine if he can return for hosts At midday on Friday, Antoine Dupont left Marseille for Toulouse, the France captain’s hopes for the remainder of the World Cup resting on the answers he finds there after suffering a devastating facial injury in the previous evening’s victory over Namibia that threatens to end his participation. Depending upon the advice of the surgical specialist, the France team aim to make a decision by the end of the weekend. [Read More]

Passengers at Atatürk airport, where air traffic has returned to normal. Photograph: Anadolu/GettyPassengers at Atatürk airport, where air traffic has returned to normal. Photograph: Anadolu/GettyTurkey This article is more than 7 years oldIstanbul airport attack: Turkey says bombers were from Russia and central AsiaThis article is more than 7 years oldAnnouncement follows dawn raids on suspected Isis cells in Istanbul, where 16 people were detained, and Izmir Three foreign nationals – a Russian, an Uzbek and a Kyrgyz – carried out the shooting and triple suicide bombing at Atatürk airport in Istanbul, Turkish officials have said, but questions remain over security shortcomings that allowed the attackers to breach several control points and kill 43 people. [Read More]

ArtThe first ever solo exhibition in New York for the civil rights-championing artist uncovers a career filled with important and sensitive works He was 6ft 6in, loved jazz music and championed African American rights. Gone but not forgotten, the artist Jeff Donaldson is being honored with his first New York solo exhibition at the Kravets Wehby Gallery which opened on 23 February, over a decade after his death. 200 years of groundbreaking African American art – in picturesRead moreThe exhibition, which features 13 paintings, traces 35 years of the artist’s career, from the 1960s to his paintings in the late 1990s. [Read More]

Top 10sBooks This article is more than 5 years oldThis article is more than 5 years oldFrom Peter Carey to Cormac McCarthy, these are some of the most compelling depictions of a territory where both danger and discovery lie From wild tales of exploration to the pioneers of the old west, from post-apocalyptic wastelands to the far reaches of space, the idea of the frontier has enthralled authors and readers for more than a century. [Read More]

OpinionGender This article is more than 4 months oldWhy are celebrities rushing to defend convicted rapist Danny Masterson?This article is more than 4 months oldMoira DoneganAshton Kutcher and Mila Kunis’s support lies on a spectrum of rape apologism and intimidation that shields predators In the video, they are wearing T-shirts, looking unkempt. Maybe a consultant from a crisis PR firm told them it would be a bad look to appear on camera in the expensive getups they usually don for public appearances; maybe they just didn’t think that the task warranted a shower. [Read More]

Could she have seen it coming? … Dylan and Sue Klebold Could she have seen it coming? … Dylan and Sue Klebold Autobiography and memoirReviewThe troubling, bestselling memoir is a search for understanding and a confessional, as well as an account of catastrophe and grief Perhaps the most unnerving thing about having a child is that you don’t know in advance who he or she or “they” will turn out to be. [Read More]

Arsenal Women This article is more than 1 year oldBeth Mead pays tribute after ‘kind and funny’ mother dies from ovarian cancer This article is more than 1 year oldEngland forward announces news on social media‘If love could have saved you, you would have lived forever’The England forward Beth Mead has paid tribute to her “beautiful, kind and funny mum”, who has died from ovarian cancer. The Arsenal player used social media to confirm that her mother, June Mead, had “passed away peacefully” last Saturday. [Read More]

2019 TV: what happened next?Leaving NeverlandDan Reed knew his film would shatter Michael Jackson’s reputation. But he didn’t expect so many death threats – or the superfans stalking his office In February, when the documentary maker Dan Reed and I met in a near-empty bar, it felt very much like the lull before the typhoon. He was calm and expansive as he spoke about his film, Leaving Neverland – which was about to be broadcast – about James Safechuck and Wade Robson, who accused Michael Jackson of sexually abusing them for years. [Read More]

Actress Joan Crawford and her daughter, Christina, playing together in April 1945 Photograph: Peter Stackpole/Time & Life Pictures/Getty ImagesActress Joan Crawford and her daughter, Christina, playing together in April 1945 Photograph: Peter Stackpole/Time & Life Pictures/Getty ImagesThe ObserverFilmIn 1978 Christina Crawford shocked the world with the first tell-all celebrity memoir, in which she exposed her Hollywood filmstar mother Joan as a cruel, abusive alcoholic. Thirty years on, and about to reissue her explosive book with new material, she gives her first interview in a decade. [Read More]