HouthisHouthis hit US cargo ship with drone after redesignation as global terroristsNo one reported hurt after weapon hits Genco Picardy bulk carrier in sea off coast of Aden
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Yemen’s Houthi rebels have targeted a US-owned cargo ship with a kamikaze drone just hours after Washington put the group back on its list of global terrorists.
The drone smashed into the Genco Picardy bulk carrier late on Wednesday, 70 miles (110km) southeast of Aden, causing a fire that was soon extinguished, according to the United Kingdom Maritime Trade Operations organisation.
How to…Life and styleHow to ... be celebateMillions of people are celibate without any sort of vow. In fact, many celibate people have taken heartfelt vows to have as much sex as possible. It just shows that vows generally stop at the waist.
People have differing levels of sexual drive. After one night without sex, some feel as if they've entered a monastery. Others don't notice they've missed sex for over a year.
The ObserverHuman biologyResearch suggests the appendix might be used to store beneficial bacteriaIt is widely regarded as the body's least useful organ, a block of intestinal tissue that often becomes inflamed and occasionally threatens to kill us.
But the appendix is getting a bad press, says US surgery expert Bill Parker. Far from being an organ of evil, it serves a very useful function – by acting as a safe house for beneficial bacteria in our bodies.
The ObserverMatthew ModineMatthew Modine: ‘I didn’t want to do Stranger Things but the Duffer Brothers kept ringing me up’The actor and environmentalist on playing Atticus Finch, the character’s importance today, and why he dyed his hair white for Stranger Things
Actor Matthew Modine, born in California in 1959, came to fame in the 1980s, most notably in Stanley Kubrick’s Full Metal Jacket (1987). More recently, he’s best known for playing Dr Martin Brenner, the sinister scientist in the Netflix series Stranger Things.
Justine Damond shooting This article is more than 1 year oldMohamed Noor: ex-officer who killed unarmed woman freed on paroleThis article is more than 1 year oldNoor was resentenced to four years nine months for manslaughter of Justine Damond in Minneapolis after murder charge dropped
A former Minneapolis police officer who fatally shot an unarmed woman who called 911 to report a possible sexual assault in the alley behind her home has been released from prison on parole, months after his murder conviction was overturned and he was resentenced on a lesser charge.
FictionReviewSemiotics meets the whodunnit in a satiric romp through Parisian intellectual life from the author of HHhH‘All this must be considered as if spoken by a character in a novel,” the literary critic and theorist wrote in his 1975 autobiography, Roland Barthes. “Life is not a novel,” Laurent Binet counters in the opening line of his new novel, one that asks who might have killed Barthes, and why.
But Barthes wasn’t murdered, you might protest; he was knocked over by a laundry truck while crossing the Rue des Ecoles, and died a month later.
Bimbocore ‘exists to satirise the impossibility of meeting contemporary standards of femininity by aggressively performing them’. Paris Hilton in a velour tracksuit. Photograph: RB/Bauer-Griffin/GC ImagesBimbocore ‘exists to satirise the impossibility of meeting contemporary standards of femininity by aggressively performing them’. Paris Hilton in a velour tracksuit. Photograph: RB/Bauer-Griffin/GC ImagesOpinionAustralian fashion This article is more than 7 months oldWhy the bimbocore aesthetic is the path to weaponising the social performance of the ageing womanThis article is more than 7 months oldVan BadhamWomen have found a way to channel a flagrant, public up-yours to the culture of gender policing that grows more dangerous by the day
The ObserverAmy WinehouseInterviewAmy Winehouse's manager Nick Shymansky: ‘She’d be so sweet and funny. But there were warning signs…’Interview by Kathryn BromwichAs the much-heralded Amy Winehouse documentary by Senna director Asif Kapadia hits cinemas, we speak to her former manager and four others whose lives were touched by the doomed soul singer
Amy Winehouse: rare and unseen – in pictures Nick Shymansky met Amy Winehouse when she was 16, and worked as her manager between 1999 and 2006.
Bolivian llamas – in pictures Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Share via Email As Bolivia is trying to give the llamas some international recognition and is lobbying the UN to make 2016 the international year of camelids we take a look at the animals that have lugged heavy loads through the country for centuries
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World newsDNA traps scientist's killer 15 years onMan killed researcher to stop her testifying against him over sex attack and was caught by techniques she helped perfectA man who killed a young British scientist to stop her from testifying against him on a sexual assault charge more than 15 years ago has been convicted of her murder.
In an extraordinary twist of fate, the key DNA evidence that helped to convict David Frediani came from the very body of work on which the scientist had been engaged at the time of her death.