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The forgotten story of...Horse racingForty-two years ago, Secretariat was on top of the world. But when he came back to Saratoga after the Triple Crown, an unheralded horse caused an upset On Sunday at Monmouth Park, American Pharoah, the first Triple Crown winner since 1978, will race for the first time since winning the Belmont Stakes on June 8. If Pharoah wins, he’ll be the seventh Triple Crown winner to win his first race after capturing thoroughbred racing’s biggest prize.

The Eva Wiseman columnLife and style This article is more than 11 months oldThe Milf is back, are you ready?This article is more than 11 months oldEva WisemanShows such as Milf Manor have pushed the reality TV format to the absolute brink. But what does the return of the Milf tell us about women and sexuality? Milf Manor is the house that Freud built. Eight women aged between 40 and 60 arrived at this beachside villa in Mexico to film a dating show, somehow missing the twist: the lineup of young men they’d be in the villa with would include… their sons.

BoxingInterviewJames Toney: ‘I should’ve knocked Donald Trump’s head off and saved the world lots of trouble’Donald McRaeTwenty-six years after their first meeting Donald McRae catches up again with his favourite boxer as the outspoken 49-year-old former world champion prepares for an exhibition fight in Bristol before embarking on a career as a bounty hunter“Why?” James Toney says fiercely as, just a foot away, the once brilliant and intimidating boxer leans forward and stares at me.

Writer Antoine Leiris photographed this month in Paris. Photograph: Franck Ferville/Agence VU/The ObserverIn this extract from his new memoir, the journalist who wrote You Will Not Have My Hate after his wife, Hélène, was murdered in the 2015 Bataclan attack in Paris tries to come to terms with life as a single parent, and to put grief behind him by Antoine LeirisJuly 2016It is the year after, in the middle of summer.

Categories Nooks and crannies Yesteryear Semantic enigmas The body beautiful Red tape, white lies Speculative science This sceptred isle Root of all evil Ethical conundrums This sporting life Stage and screen Birds and the bees BIRDS AND THE BEESDo fish yawn? THE WORLD which fish inhabit does not require them to watch cricket matches or listen to the speeches of William Hague, so it is unlikely that they ever feel the urge to yawn.

Animals Dolphin giving birth caught on camera - video A bottlenose dolphin at Brookfield zoo in Illinois gives birth to a dolphin calf, weighing 40 pounds. The three-foot mammal was delivered to the 26-year-old mother after a several-hour labour. The calf is said to be settling in well in its new surroundings Source: Reuters Thu 8 Aug 2013 04.20 EDT First published on Thu 8 Aug 2013 04.

Y2K bug This article is more than 9 years oldIs the Year 2038 problem the new Y2K bug?This article is more than 9 years oldReports proclaim that the Year 2038 problem is going to cause computerised doom: here’s what you need to know Not yet been terrified by the Year 2038 problem? Somehow you must have missed reports claiming it poses a threat, as exposed by Gangnam style (yes, you read that correctly), to our computerised future.

Pi Day: pi transformed into incredible art – in pictures Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Share via Email The number 3.14159 … as you have never seen it before. Striking computer-generated images of the most famous number in maths Pi Day: Shakespeare, Jane Austen and the poet laureate of pi Alex Bellos @alexbellos Fri 14 Mar 2014 03.

Top 10sHilary MantelAhead of this year's Bastille Day, novelist Jonathan Grimwood chooses fiction's best treatments of the mother of modern revoltsWe know how the French Revolution begins, in proclamations and riots and the storming of the Bastille, how it develops into murderous terror, and ends with the rise of Napoleon; or perhaps, years later, on the battlefield of Waterloo. How the later restoration of the Bourbons (who, as Talleyrand famously put it, learned nothing and forgot nothing) simply led to the Revolution of 1848, which led to Napoleon III and history repeating itself as farce.