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Australia women's cricket teamIndia make history with first ever women’s Test victory over AustraliaTourists’ 75-run lead proves indefensible after batting collapseAlyssa Healy’s captaincy starts with first Test loss since 2014Australia’s women have tasted defeat to India in a Test match for the first time, beaten by eight wickets on the last day of their one-off match in Mumbai. After losing 7-55 to end their second innings, Alyssa Healy’s tourists could only set the hosts a target of 75 at Wankhede Stadium on Sunday.
UK newsMurder charge man tells of neck fetishA musician wept yesterday as he told a court he accidentally strangled a schoolteacher to death after she consented to his 20-year fetish for women's necks. Graham Coutts, 35, used a washing up bottle and a length of ribbon to simulate the moment he wrapped a pair of tights around Jane Longhurst's neck after explaining the "ground rules" of asphyxial sex. He then broke down in the witness box at Lewes crown court in East Sussex as he claimed that Ms Longhurst's naked body fell limp, and began bleeding.
Graphic novel of the monthBooksReviewA New Yorker cartoonist’s candid search for selfhood offers solace to anyone who feels different from othersThe New Yorker cartoonist Liana Finck calls her graphic memoir a “neurological coming-of-age story”, and it’s true that one thread running through her tender, complicated narrative has to do with a certain kind of difference: Finck has often found it hard to bond with other people, and she suffers from an anxiety that is, at times, debilitating.
Ricky Gervais This article is more than 1 year oldRicky Gervais Netflix special condemned by LGBTQ groups for ‘anti-trans rants masquerading as jokes’ This article is more than 1 year oldComedian criticised for ‘dangerous’ special, in which he says he supports trans rights while joking about the genitalia of trans women and HIV Ricky Gervais’ new Netflix special SuperNature has drawn criticism for several jokes about trans people, with the US LGBTQ rights group Glaad calling it “dangerous”.
New Jersey This article is more than 9 years oldSeconds from death: student photographs bear moments before it killed himThis article is more than 9 years oldImages retrieved from 22-year-old’s phone reveal final momentsRutgers University student was mauled to death by 300lb animalA series of newly released photographs reveal the final moments of a New Jersey student’s life before he was killed by a bear. Darsh Patel, a 22-year-old Rutgers University student, was hiking with four friends in the Apshawa Preserve in West Milford, New Jersey, in September when he was mauled to death by a 300-pound black bear.
Emma Watson is disappointed in you people. Photograph: DVT/Star Max/GC ImagesEmma Watson is disappointed in you people. Photograph: DVT/Star Max/GC ImagesJessica Valenti columnEmma Watson This article is more than 9 years oldThe Emma Watson nude photos threat was a hoax – but it was still a threatThis article is more than 9 years oldJessica ValentiSexually threatening an outspoken woman to shine a light on how outspoken women are sexually threatened? That’s idiotic
FilmDescribed by its screenwriter, Gore Vidal, as ‘easily one of the worst films ever made’, Caligula has been re-edited by Thomas Negovan and received its premiere this week. Here, he explains his decision to revisit the swords-and-sandals shockfest As quixotic quests go, it’s a doozy: take 96 hours of raw footage filmed during one of the craziest and most tumultuous shoots in movie history and attempt to create a new version of the film described by Variety on release in 1979 as “a moral Holocaust”.
ArkansasArkansas on Monday carried out the first double execution in the US in 16 years. Jacob Rosenberg witnessed the murderer Marcel Williams being put to death At 9.34pm we entered the execution chamber. I passed through a door with a large sign on its front showing two letters, “EC”, and took a seat among a few rows of chairs that faced four large rectangular windows. Some lights were on, but it was mostly dim.
Doctor, doctorHealth & wellbeing"I have yellow streaks in my eyes – what might be causing them?"I have often noticed a yellow streak in the middle of my eyes. I have had liver and kidney checks, and they found no anomalies. I once asked an optician his opinion and he told me that this symptom was common in people of Mediterranean descent and was due to fat storage in the eyes. I am not yellow anywhere else, nor do I have any other symptoms.