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Los Angeles This article is more than 8 years oldDjango Unchained actor Daniele Watts will apologise to police over arrestThis article is more than 8 years oldActor alleged racial profiling after arrest on lewd conduct chargeWatts and boyfriend also sentenced to 40 hours of community serviceDjango Unchained actor Danièle Watts charged with lewd conductRead moreAn actor who accused Los Angeles police of racial profiling when they investigated a report she was having sex with her boyfriend in a parked car has been ordered to apologise to officers as part of a plea deal.

10 of the bestGram ParsonsThe country rock pioneer reshaped the Byrds, redirected the Stones and pursued his own, often glorious vision of ‘cosmic American music’ 1. The Byrds – One Hundred Years from NowGram Parsons – born Ingram Cecil Connor III, he adopted the Parsons surname when his widowed mother married Robert Parsons – was an unlikely champion of country music. He was a Southerner, but not from a hardscrabble background where the Grand Ole Opry on the radio was the peak of the week’s entertainment.

Tim Lott's family columnFamilyFamily closeness springs from conflict as much as anything else – it allows freedom to argue, even yell, without fearing the consequencesWhat is it we think about when we think about intimacy? Often, it seems, we may get it confused with physical joy because intimacy is joyful, in its quiet way, and often tactile. The couple cleaving to one another’s warmth under the bedclothes. The spontaneous embrace of a child.

Wallabies winger Mark Nawaqanitawase will say goodbye to rugby union and join NRL club the Sydney Roosters on a two-year deal from 2025. Photograph: Jason McCawley/Getty ImagesWallabies winger Mark Nawaqanitawase will say goodbye to rugby union and join NRL club the Sydney Roosters on a two-year deal from 2025. Photograph: Jason McCawley/Getty ImagesAustralia rugby union team This article is more than 1 month oldWallabies star Mark Nawaqanitawase defects to NRL in Roosters dealThis article is more than 1 month oldWinger to join Sydney club for 2025 season on two-year dealLatest blow to Australian rugby union after shocking 2023Rugby Australia has suffered another blow after Wallabies winger Mark Nawaqanitawase agreed to join NRL club the Roosters for the 2025 season on a two-year deal.

One of Liverpool photographer Stephen McCoy’s photographs of Skelmersdale, taken in 1984. Photograph: Stephen McCoyOne of Liverpool photographer Stephen McCoy’s photographs of Skelmersdale, taken in 1984. Photograph: Stephen McCoyThe ObserverCommunitiesSkelmersdale, the Lancashire town where 1960s planners tried – and failed – to create a utopian housing scheme, is celebrated in an unlikely new concept album. But what happened to our dreams of creating ideal homes for everyone? Magnetic North’s first album – Orkney: Symphony of the Magnetic North – was inspired by the Orcadian childhood of one of the band’s members, Erland Cooper.

The ObserverItaly This article is more than 2 years oldDiscovery of Pompeii slaves’ room sheds rare light on real Roman lifeThis article is more than 2 years oldCramped room contains beds, chamber pot and other items used in slave family’s ‘precarious’ existence A perfectly intact room that was lived in by slaves has been discovered in a suburb of the ancient Roman city of Pompeii. Three wooden beds, a chamber pot and a wooden chest containing metal and fabric items were among the objects found in the cramped living quarters of what was a sprawling villa in Civita Giuliana, about 700 metres north-west of Pompeii’s city walls.

ExhibitionsInspired by a device created by in the 1950s, the creators hope to bring free transcendental experiences to 100,000 Britons – and unite the country through communal hallucinations One day in 1958, Brion Gysin had a transcendental experience on the way to Marseille. The flickering of sunlight through avenues of trees along the roadside and the speed of the bus he was riding proved optimal, or so he thought, to put him in a hallucinatory dreamlike state.

OpinionTucker Carlson This article is more than 4 months oldEven for Tucker Carlson, his supposed Obama sex exposé was ridiculousThis article is more than 4 months oldArwa MahdawiThe ex-Fox host’s segment on a convicted con man who claims he had druggy liaisons with Obama was embarrassing to watch Oh, how the mighty have fallen. This time last time year Tucker Carlson had a primetime spot on Fox News where his hate-heavy, fact-light sputtering drew an audience of over 4 million.

The ObserverMartin FreemanInterviewMartin Freeman: 'In London our prejudices are more subtle, less lethal'Euan FergusonMartin Freeman tells Euan Ferguson about the brilliance of Benedict Cumberbatch in Sherlock, multiculturalism in London and the BeatlesGervais is Gervais, too bright and too giggly; Mackenzie Crook the kind, laconic pragmatist; and now I've interviewed the third of my hat-trick from The Office, Martin Freeman, and I have to say: wowza! Searingly intelligent, angry, direct, caustic, lefty, sweary, as stunningly far from "