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FilmObituaryGary Winick obituaryVisionary film-maker at the forefront of American cinema's digital revolutionThe director and producer Gary Winick, who has died of brain cancer aged 49, was at the forefront of American cinema's adoption of digital video (DV), along with more high-profile names such as Steven Soderbergh and David Fincher. Winick believed that the discreet, lightweight equipment involved, and the flexibility it afforded film-makers, could lead to more direct and emotionally authentic movies, citing "

World newsGays tell of mutilation by apartheid armyA report detailing castration and electric shocks adds weight to calls for doctors to be held to account over abusesThe part-man, part-woman who still calls himself Harold is trying to gather the courage to finally fight back against South Africa's military. It was the army, after all, which abandoned him more than a decade ago, part way through "treatment" to turn him from a male to a female under a discredited policy of trying to "

MusicIn the 1960s, Jackie Opel created a syncopated, cowbell-heavy sound that defined Barbados and created a sensation from St Lucia to New York. A few years later it virtually disappeared – but the time is finally here for a revival Few artists have ever had the audacity to create a national music genre from scratch. This is what the Barbadian singer Jackie “Manface” Opel set out to do in 1968 – and more or less what he did.

Animal welfare Sheep beaten with a hammer, punched and thrown around by shearers - video Animal rights group Peta has released secretly filmed video of cruel acts it says took place in 19 shearing sheds in New South Wales, Victoria and South Australia. The footage shows sheep being roughly handled, punched in the face and stamped upon. One sheep was beaten with a hammer while another was shown having a deep cut crudely sewn up.

BooksReviewDon DeLillo's intriguing new novel, The Body Artist, wrestles with syntax and the selfThe Body Artist Don DeLillo Picador £13.99, pp124 Buy it at a discount at BOL After the revolution comes... well, what, exactly? Three years ago, with Underworld, Don DeLillo exploded the scope of the contemporary novel. He proved that it could fuse historical stringency with Cold War paranoia; could provide an arena for our techno-dreams and urban myths.

Rishi Sunak This article is more than 3 months oldWaving Palestinian flag may be a criminal offence, Braverman tells policeThis article is more than 3 months oldHome secretary also suggests clampdown on pro-Arab chants in letter that will concern free speech advocates Israel and Hamas at war – live updates Waving a Palestinian flag or singing a chant advocating freedom for Arabs in the region may be a criminal offence, Suella Braverman has told senior police officers.

Shelling out … Botticelli’s The Birth of Venus at the Uffizi, Florence. Photograph: Vincenzo Pinto/AFP/Getty ImagesShelling out … Botticelli’s The Birth of Venus at the Uffizi, Florence. Photograph: Vincenzo Pinto/AFP/Getty ImagesBook of the dayBooksReviewWhy did Botticelli endure centuries of obscurity? And what happened to those Dante illustrations? A fresh account of the Renaissance explores the answer It is not unknown for tourists to faint in front of Botticelli’s 1486 masterpiece The Birth of Venus.

Hilary MantelThe Booker winner brought fierce intellectual rigour to her reimagining of Henry VIII and Ann Boleyn’s story Hilary Mantel, celebrated author of Wolf Hall, dies aged 70 Wolf Hall made Hilary Mantel famous. It took one of the best-known episodes in English history, Henry VIII’s repudiation of his first wife, Catherine of Aragon, for the sake of Anne Boleyn, and his subsequent breach with the Roman Catholic church, and made it entirely new.

TravelI feel lethargic and nauseous after long car journeys. Any suggestions? Q: After long car journeys, when I tend to be the passenger, I feel lethargic and slightly nauseous for 24 hours. I don't get travel sick during the journey but find this after-effect very debilitating. Do you have any suggestions? Penny Munday Dr Jules Eden replies: Travel sickness is most often due to the difference in stimuli between what the eyes are looking at and what the balance centres of the inner ear are telling us.