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Men's healthMatt Cornell grew up with gynecomastia, a harmless condition that made his school days a misery. From the bullying to the surgery that followed, he looks back on what 'moobs' meant to himTits. The name was given to me by a bully shortly after I started Year 6. I had been a fat kid since the age of nine, but as puberty began to kick in, parts of me started growing differently than expected.

ScienceProof that Santa existsHow does Father Christmas get everywhere in one night? Henry Gee explainsIn his book, Unweaving The Rainbow, Richard Dawkins boasts that he tried to tell a six-year-old child that Father Christmas didn't exist. His argument was that Father Christmas would not be able to climb down all those chimneys and tiptoe noiselessly to the bedsides of hundreds of millions of children, all in one night. There simply wouldn't be enough time, even if reindeer were hypersonic.

Richard Ashcroft photographed at the Cricketers in Richmond. Photograph: Suki Dhanda/The ObserverRichard Ashcroft photographed at the Cricketers in Richmond. Photograph: Suki Dhanda/The ObserverRichard AshcroftInterviewRichard Ashcroft: ‘I wouldn’t trade what Coldplay have achieved for any of my songs'Dave SimpsonFrom careering around Wigan in his mate’s Mini to posing with a drip in his arm, the former Mad Richard has had a breakneck ride. He may now be living a quieter life but he still wants to be ‘bigger than the Verve’

SortedBlueyIt’s hard to know where to start with this beloved Australian cartoon – but these episodes are funny, thoughtful and incredibly touching Get our weekend culture and lifestyle email and listen to our podcast With 150 Bluey episodes now available on ABC iView for those in Australia and slightly fewer available on Disney+ for those in other, less Blueified countries, it can be hard to know where to start with this much-loved cartoon about a little blue heeler dog and her family – and then where to start again, and again, and again.

Photograph: Andrew H Walker/Rex/ShutterstockFor more than a decade, people have been saying that the era of US dominance is coming to an end. But in reality there are still no other global players to rival it by Tom StevensonIn recent years, the idea that the United States is an empire in decline has gained considerable support, some of it from quarters that until very recently would have denied it was ever an empire at all.

TheatreObituaryElizabeth Sellars obituaryActor who shone on the British stage and screen and took supporting roles in Hollywood movies of the 1950sThe actor Elizabeth Sellars, who has died aged 98, had a fulfilling career on television and on stage, and took leading roles in low-budget British thrillers, as well as supporting roles to bigger stars in bigger pictures, in the 1950s and 60s. She emerged at a rich time for British television drama, often appearing on the BBC’s Sunday Night Theatre (1951-59) and ITV’s Play of the Week (1959-67).

1000 films to see before you dieFilmFilms beginning with II Know Where I'm Going! (Michael Powell, Emeric Pressburger, 1945) Powell and Pressburger in their pomp, this begins as a ripping yarn/love story about an ambitious young woman (Wendy Hiller) out to marry money. Once she arrives in the Scottish Highlands for her nuptials and the fog draws in, the film-makers bring lyricism and a mystical undertow to their storytelling. If Compton Mackenzie had collaborated with Isaac Bashevis Singer, this is what they might have come up with.

Peru This article is more than 5 years oldFury over Peru president’s reaction to woman’s murder by stalkerThis article is more than 5 years oldPresident’s response that ‘sometimes that’s how life is’ has sparked outrage Women’s rights activists in Peru have expressed outrage after the country’s president responded to the murder of a woman who was burned to death by a stalker by saying “sometimes that’s how life is”. Eyvi Agreda died on Friday from infections caused by the attack in April which left 60% of her body covered in second and third-degree burns.

US news This article is more than 10 months oldNorfolk Southern sued by widow over trainee conductor’s decapitationThis article is more than 10 months oldWalter James Griffin was killed when train he was training on passed a stationary freight car with a protruding metal beam An Alabama woman whose husband was decapitated when the Norfolk Southern train he was training on passed a stationary freight car with a protruding metal beam is suing for wrongful death.