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Health & wellbeingRandeep Ramesh meets Rajo Devi Lohan, the Indian woman who, in November, gave birth to her first child - at the age of 70Until two months ago, few outsiders bothered to visit Alewa, a dusty village in north India, surrounded for miles by little more than fields of wheat and potholed roads. But since late last year there has been a swelling stream of visitors - a pilgrimage to the site of a biological wonder of the world or, depending on your point of view, a fusion of social taboo and science.

Guardian Weekly notes and queriesWhy do men make so much noise?Sneezing loudly; the ages of women; when ironing endedWhy do men sneeze as if they're going to blow the house down? Since sneezing is a kind of nasal orgasm, it's not surprising that they wish to trumpet their wares. Bryan Furnass, Canberra, Australia My father and I had a competition – the most number of sneezes looking into the sun (a known reflex).

Alexei NavalnyAlexei Navalny jokes about ‘nearly naked’ Moscow party from Arctic prison Jailed Russian opposition leader ridiculed backlash to controversial event in first public appearance since disappearance The jailed Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny has ridiculed the backlash to a “nearly naked party” in Moscow during his first appearance since being banished to an Arctic prison, as authorities temporarily shut the nightclub where the party happened. “Did you have a party?

Jeff Tweedy and co’s 13th album bears a close family resemblance to Yankee Hotel Foxtrot, but with Cate Le Bon in the producer’s chair, it has an appealing wash of left-field weirdness and its lyrics express an older man’s anxieties Published: 12:00 PM ncG1vNJzZmivp6x7tbTEoKyaqpSerq96wqikaKWlqLake9KeqaKdo2SurbHXoqpmqJWpv6qwyKxkmqSSqrpuu8Vmq6GdXayyprc%3D

NBAThe Spurs announced they will be replacing their longtime dance squad with a ‘family-friendly’ co-ed ‘hype team’, but the dancers are left to wonder the true reason behind the decision The fear was first incited by an email: an 18 May 2018 message from the San Antonio Spurs staff to members of the Spurs Silver Dancers squad, less than a month after the team’s season ended with a first-round playoff loss to the Golden State Warriors, asking them to attend a meeting that same day about a new ‘hype team’ they were introducing.

The ObserverThrillersReviewA woman left for dead isn’t allowed to forget her past in this twisted fairytaleTessa calls him “my monster”: the man who, 18 years earlier, left her in a shallow grave with a corpse and a collection of bones, beneath a Texan field; the man who, to all intents and purposes, is now on death row, awaiting his imminent execution. Her testimony put Terrell Darcy Goodwin in jail almost two decades ago, so who has been planting clumps of black-eyed susans, the yellow American wildflowers that carpeted her “grave”, at her house ever since?

Jackson Baker’s surfing is eye-catching not only for his big turns but also the bright pink board beneath his feet, a tribute to his mum who died of breast cancer. Photograph: Brydie Piaf/The GuardianJackson Baker’s surfing is eye-catching not only for his big turns but also the bright pink board beneath his feet, a tribute to his mum who died of breast cancer. Photograph: Brydie Piaf/The GuardianSurfingSince being cut after a narrow loss, the 26-year-old is determined to win back his spot – for himself and in memory of his mum

US midterm elections 2022Film-maker says the salient lesson from the midterms for Democrats is to stop depressing their own vote with pessimism, fear and conventional thinking In the lead-up to last week’s midterm elections in America, the punditocracy of commentators, pollsters and political-types were almost united: a “red wave” of Republican gains was on the cards. But one dissenting voice stood out: that of leftist filmmaker Michael Moore. Against all the commonplace predictions, he had forecast Democrats would do well.

Guardian Africa networkSouth AfricaAt its height, the government was running one of the most expensive information campaigns in the world. Rebecca Davis delves into this little-known history When journalist Ron Nixon was growing up as a young black child in the US, his grandmother gave him a magazine about South Africa. Page after page featured images of wonderful wild animals, sunsets and happy black people on the beach. Decades later, Nixon would realise that the magazine was a piece of propaganda produced by the apartheid government’s Department of Intelligence, one of countless publications distributed internationally under the guise of being “regular” magazines.