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Titanic sub incident This article is more than 6 months oldMissing Titan likely intact but out of power, says expert who designed deepest-diving submersibleThis article is more than 6 months oldEngineer Ron Allum says missing tourist sub unlikely to have suffered a ‘catastrophic implosion’ but partial flooding could be preventing it from resurfacing Missing Titanic sub – latest updates Full report: rescuers intensify search amid concerns over Titan’s remaining oxygen supply The missing Titan submersible is unlikely to have suffered a catastrophic failure of its pressure hull, according to a deep-sea engineer who designed the vessel that film-maker James Cameron used to reach Earth’s deepest point. [Read More]

Athletics This article is more than 2 months oldOlympic champion Thompson-Herah splits with coach over pay demandsThis article is more than 2 months oldShanikie Osbourne blamed for ‘a breakdown in negotiations’Decision comes only nine months before Paris 2024 GamesThe reigning women’s 100m and 200m Olympic champion, Elaine Thompson-Herah, has split from her coach nine months before the Paris Games following a dispute over pay. The management team of Thompson-Herah, the second fastest woman in history, blamed “a breakdown in negotiations” with Shanikie Osbourne and said her demands were “extremely excessive”. [Read More]

NFLA new Netflix documentary paints a nuanced portrait of two young people at the center of a catfishing story that captivated America Two sporting scandals dominated the American news cycle at the start of 2013: the disgrace of Lance Armstrong and the humiliation of college footballer Manti Te’o. But if Armstrong’s belated confession that he doped to win all seven of his Tour de France titles told a story about the rotten heart of American success that felt, four decades after Watergate, somehow traditional, the Te’o affair seemed to offer a warning about the dangers of the internet at a time when techno-optimism was still all the rage – before bot accounts, misinformation, and online harassment became features of everyday life. [Read More]

Sue TownsendReviewThe heroine of this comic novel is an intriguing, unexpected characterIf a comic novel is to have a vaguely preposterous premise, it helps if it's one that seems immediately enticing to a high proportion of the readership. And which of us, in a moment of feeling insufficiently cherished, harassed by pedestrian responsibilities and bewildered by the world's demands, has not felt that the most sensible option would be to take to our bed? [Read More]

What makes me happy nowToys This article is more than 8 months oldWhat a Czechoslovakian doll taught me about happiness – and its dark sideThis article is more than 8 months oldLea YpiAs a child in communist Albania, I yearned to play with her. But as soon as she was within reach, I didn’t want her any more When I was a child in communist Albania, happiness was called Aniushka. Aniushka was a large Czechoslovak doll that belonged to my neighbours. [Read More]

Americas This article is more than 5 years oldThis article is more than 5 years oldThousands seize on Twitter campaign to denounce gender abuse blighting their region It began as a call to arms to women in Spain after last week’s incendiary acquittal of five men on rape charges in Pamplona. “We must tell of the aggressions, the violations, compañeras,” the journalist Cristina Fallarás tweeted, urging her followers to speak out over sexual violence using the hashtag #Cuéntalo. [Read More]

Shady hotspot … outdoor restaurant tables in Araras, Brazil. Photograph: John SuricoShady hotspot … outdoor restaurant tables in Araras, Brazil. Photograph: John SuricoThe foodie travellerRio de Janeiro holidaysThe cool lush hillside in the imperial city of Petrópolis, north of Rio de Janeiro, has become a culinary destination, with a growing number of exceptional restaurants serving refined European cuisine Just over 100km north of Rio de Janeiro’s Olympic stadiums is the valley of Araras, an emerging foodie destination in the Serra dos Órgãos mountains. [Read More]

Russia This article is more than 10 years oldArtist nails his scrotum to the ground in Red SquareThis article is more than 10 years oldPerformance artist Pyotr Pavlensky stages protest at 'apathy, political indifference and fatalism of Russian society'Red Square has seen a lot over the centuries, from public executions to giant military parades, but a performance artist broke new ground on Sunday when he nailed his scrotum to cobblestones in a painful act of protest. [Read More]

The ObserverSoulReview(ATO) On the Texas soul revivalists’ game-raising second album, co-writers Eric Burton and Adrian Quesada cast the familiar in a scintillating new light Martin Amis contended that writing becomes “less significant [when] anyone could have written it”. The authorial voice is king. Maybe he’d have appreciated how fully Black Pumas’ singer-songwriter Eric Burton’s joyful, antic spirit defines the soul revivalists’ excellent second album. Surely no one else could come up with the one-two punch of sun-dappled single Mrs Postman, wherein Burton delivers a bushy-tailed tribute to blue-collar work, before approaching the title track from the perspective of a diamond in the back seat of a Cadillac. [Read More]

PhotographyObituaryHarold Chapman obituaryPhotographer who documented regulars at the ‘Beat hotel’ in Paris including Allen Ginsberg and William S Burroughs A career in pictures During the 1950s and 60s the photographer Harold Chapman, who has died aged 95, chronicled the denizens of the “Beat hotel” in Paris. After a chance encounter with the photographer John Deakin in Soho, London, in the mid-50s, where he had been documenting jazz, Chapman moved to Paris in 1956 and lived at 9 Rue Gît-le-Cœur, the hotel in the city’s Latin quarter that became known as a favourite destination for Beat writers including William S Burroughs and Gregory Corso. [Read More]