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Usain Bolt This article is more than 2 years old‘Weird and unfair’: Usain Bolt criticises advances in spike technologyThis article is more than 2 years oldEven faster sprint spikes could mean Bolt’s world records fall100m and 200m holder says it’s ‘laughable’ they are allowedUsain Bolt said that advances in spike technology that could help wipe out his world records are laughable and that the new shoes also give an unfair advantage over any athletes not wearing them.

World newsAfrican woman going home after 200 yearsAn awful chapter in the history of colonialism came to a dignified end yesterday when the remains of an African woman who had been taken to Europe and exhibited as a circus freak was finally handed back to South African officials at a ceremony in Paris. To the beat of marimbas and the melody of gospel songs, the skeleton and bottled organs of Saartjie Baartman were returned in a white wooden box draped in an African cloth.

MoviesReviewAndrey Paounov’s opaque but arresting feature turns on mysterious disappearances and wolfish arrivals in a deep dark forest Here’s a bitter, odd, quirky shaggy-dog ghost story with a wintry chill. Award-winning Bulgarian documentary film-maker Andrey Paounov makes his fiction feature debut with this adaption, along with British co-writer Alex Barrett, from a stage play by Bulgarian author Yordan Radichkov. Two middle-aged men are shivering in a remote snowy hut just on the border of a dark forest full of wolves.

BBC This article is more than 9 years oldJeremy Clarkson 'begs forgiveness' over N-word footageThis article is more than 9 years oldTop Gear presenter says his efforts to obscure word while reciting eeny meeny miny moe 'weren't quite good enough'Jeremy Clarkson has begged viewers' forgiveness after he appeared to use the N-word during filming of his BBC programme Top Gear. In a video statement posted online on Thursday, he said that he had tried to obscure the word when reciting the "

Australian Open 2024Local hero Dane Sweeny loses Australian Open thriller but wins crowdSweeny defeated 6-3, 3-6, 4-6, 6-2, 2-6 by Francisco CerúndoloAustralian cult hero takes No 22 seed to the wire in brilliant AO debutHis bloodied knuckles were better suited to a street fighter. His desperate lunges – many ending in a full splits – warranted praise from a ballerina. But it was the tenacity and tennis craft of unheralded Sunshine Coast qualifier Dane Sweeny that almost secured an unlikely victory in his spectacular duel against Argentina’s Francisco Cerúndolo that highlighted the Australian Open’s first ever Sunday start.

Sexual healingSexSearch for more comfortable and varied types of stimulation, advises Pamela Stephenson ConnollyMy clitoris is so sensitive it is painful when touched directly, even by something such as a jet-spray of water in the shower. I can touch myself over my clothes and climax, but I'm always reading that direct clitoral stimulation should be extremely pleasurable, and I'm upset that I can't experience this. It is troubling for my partner too, even though I can orgasm through penetration.

Children This article is more than 19 years oldSo, how hard can we hit our children?This article is more than 19 years oldCatherine BennettThe newly adopted Lords' amendment on smacking will inspire many parents to examine their past conduct. Have we smacked our children enough? And if not, is it too late to start? Lord Lester's amendment, which prevailed over the Children are Unbeatable campaign to ban smacking, is designed to allow British parents to carry on hitting their children, as long as they don't do it too hard.

Crime fictionThe Garden of Last DaysIn Andre Dubus's tense tale, a Florida stripper meets a 9/11 hijacker. By Irvine WelshWhen an author produces what becomes known as a "big book", critics and readers tend to obsess about how they will follow it up. Writers, on the other hand, concern themselves less with this issue. The exalted work, like any preceding it, has long gone, and only the current undertaking has any importance.

London Thousands march against antisemitism in London – video Thousands of demonstrators against antisemitism marched in London on Sunday to protest against a rise in hate crimes against Jewish people since the Middle East was plunged into crisis after the attack in southern Israel by Hamas on 7 October. Protesters carried placards, some bearing the message: ‘Zero tolerance for antisemites.’ Other placards showed the faces of Israeli hostages held by Hamas.