Greg Lake of King Crimson and ELP fame dies aged 69 GuardianPop and rockObituaryGreg Lake obituaryKey figure in 1970s prog rock as bass guitarist for Emerson, Lake & Palmer Greg Lake, who has died of cancer aged 69, first rose to fame with a brief stint in King Crimson before achieving colossal success with Emerson, Lake & Palmer during the 1970s. Lake was one of the key figures in the creation of progressive rock, and had no time for critics who said that the music was ludicrously overblown.

The ObserverChileUnexpected emergence of flowering bulbs prompts move to designate Chile’s Atacama desert a protected national park Unusual winter rainfall has produced a floral bloom and explosion of colour on the barren plains of the Atacama desert, prompting Chile’s government to move to protect the area. This month, the new president, Gabriel Boric, announced that the area would be made into a national park – the highest protected status the country bestows – to safeguard the flowering desert, a rare phenomenon which occurs every few years.

OpinionRape and sexual assault This article is more than 5 months oldI made upskirting illegal. This is why I don’t want to change any more lawsThis article is more than 5 months oldGina MartinI don’t want more prisons and punishment for men – I want to help prevent sexual assault so women are safer in the first place “In 2017, at British Summer Time Festival, a man stuck his hands between Gina’s legs and took a photo of her crotch.

Biography booksReviewThe memoirs of Orson Welles's daughter expose his multiple complexities, says Simon CallowOrson Welles was, to put it mildly, multifaceted; to the degree, indeed, that his personality almost fails to cohere. The result is that there are many Orsons; everyone who came across him adds another, and each insists that theirs is the real one. To the swelling genre of what might be called "My Orson" books, In My Father's Shadow, by Welles's daughter from his first marriage, is a new and uncommonly valuable addition.

Cricket This article is more than 1 month oldAlyssa Healy named new Australia cricket captain across all three formatsThis article is more than 1 month oldHealy, 33, takes over after Meg Lanning’s shock retirementWicketkeeper-batter’s Test reign starts on December 21 v IndiaAlyssa Healy has been charged with leading Australia’s all-conquering women’s cricket team into a new era after officially replacing Meg Lanning as captain across all three formats. The gun wicket-keeper batter filled in for Lanning as captain for extended spells over the past two years, including this year’s Ashes.

The ObserverFerrariInterviewCharles Leclerc: ‘I lost my father quite early. It changes you forever’Giles RichardsThe Ferrari driver talks about the sometimes traumatic personal history behind his development into one of the fastest-rising young stars in Formula One Charles Leclerc’s tousled hair and boyish looks are disarming, his youth and softly spoken manner belying a motivated and talented driver who is surely a future Formula One world champion in waiting. Only 21 years old and in his second season in F1, Leclerc occupies the most sought‑after seat in motor racing.

FKA twigs‘Double standards’: FKA twigs defends banned semi-nude Calvin Klein advertBritish singer says ‘I am proud of my physicality’ after advert is banned by Advertising Standards Authority FKA twigs has defended a Calvin Klein advertisement she featured in that was banned earlier this week by the UK’s Advertising Standards Authority (ASA). The singer appeared in the poster ad dressed in a shirt held across her semi-nude body. Following two complaints from the public, the ASA said the ad framed her as a “stereotypical sexual object” and the “image’s composition placed viewers’ focus on the model’s body rather than on the clothing being advertised”.

Climate crisis This article is more than 11 months oldGoogle let Daily Wire advertise on ‘climate change is a hoax’ searchesThis article is more than 11 months oldExclusive: Data shared by Center for Countering Digital Hate shows Ben Shapiro’s site bought ads on climate crisis denial search terms A media outlet founded by conservative influencer Ben Shapiro paid Google to advertise on search pages questioning whether the climate crisis is real, according to new research from a disinformation watchdog group.

The ObserverAutobiography and memoirReviewThe Downton star is happy to be the butt of his own jokes in this tremendously entertaining account of the ups and downs of his career When he was young, the actor Hugh Bonneville was ambitious and thrusting, but a bit bumbling, too: no sooner had he filed his elbows to a point and aimed them in the direction of his next big break than something would almost inevitably go a bit wrong.

TheatreReviewBelgrade theatre, Coventry The story of Sarah Bonetta Davies, given to Queen Victoria, is contrasted with a modern black British woman in Janice Okoh’s play The historian David Olusoga has spoken of black Britons across the centuries whose stories have been forgotten, untold or “hidden in plain view”. Sarah Bonetta Davies is one of them. A 19th-century Yoruba princess, she was orphaned and enslaved before becoming the goddaughter of Queen Victoria and living in Brighton.