Queensland This article is more than 10 months oldQueensland moves to allow sperm donors to be identified by those conceived via donationThis article is more than 10 months oldRecommendations supported by state government also include the establishment of a central donor register Follow our Australia news live blog for the latest updates Get our morning and afternoon news emails, free app or daily news podcast People conceived through sperm or egg donations may have greater access to their genetic history under a suite of recommendations accepted by the Queensland government.

Manchester This article is more than 2 years oldTeenage girl raped while walking her dog in Manchester parkThis article is more than 2 years oldSeventeen-year-old assaulted by two men in north of city on Sunday night Detectives are appealing for information after a 17-year-old girl was raped while walking her dog in a park in Manchester. The teenager was approached by two men at Boggart Hole Clough park in Blackley, in the north of the city, at about 9.

Drama filmsReviewThor: Ragnarok director Taika Waititi’s early paean to the strength and resilience of kids is tender and funny Now that New Zealand’s Taika Waititi has hit the big league directing Marvel’s Thor: Ragnarok, his second film, 2010’s Maori coming-of-age comedy Boy, is finally released in the UK. It’s a disarmingly lovely, big-hearted film, and hilarious in places. Like Waititi’s 2016 indie hit Hunt for the Wilderpeople, it’s a paean to the strength and resilience of kids, though in its raw and less polished way it’s a little less corny.

THE BODY BEAUTIFULDoes beheading hurt? Gail White, Glasgow I once sat with someone who had just had their leg torn off and they had absolutely no idea though there was a dull ache. I suspect the body compensates for the pain by numbing the nerve ends through shock. Anyway, how would you ever ask? Calvin, London UK The act of beheading via axe was considered barbaric as the axe man would often miss the clean killing stroke.

Psychology This article is more than 9 months oldDrugs and alcohol do not make you more creative, research findsThis article is more than 9 months oldTravel, meditation, training and exposure to culture have a greater effect on artistic output From Hunter S Thompson’s infamous daily pre-writing routine of cocaine, Chivas Regal and acid to Vincent Van Gogh’s love for absinthe and Andy Warhol’s prescription drugs habit, the idea that drugs and alcohol produce great art is deeply culturally ingrained.

QPRInterviewQPR’s Martí Cifuentes: ‘I’m an optimist. I don’t have any magical recipe’Jacob SteinbergCatalan is used to proving doubters wrong and is applying lessons from Johan Cruyff in his push to keep club in the Championship “In life and football there’s always some kind of risk, isn’t there?” Martí Cifuentes says. The Queens Park Rangers manager is thinking about his unusual journey and remembers the difficult early days at AAB Aalborg. “When I went to Denmark it took six official games for me to win,” the 41-year-old continues.

Australian filmWhite Christmas begone! Australia’s yuletide canon is expanding – and it’s full of small-time crims, dysfunctional families and sweltering summer shenanigans Do you have a favourite Australian festive flick? Share it in the commentsEarly in the new Australian film Christmess – a bittersweet drama about an alcoholic actor trying to turn his life around – one character asks a question familiar to many cinephiles: what’s the best Christmas movie? The protagonist, Steve Le Marquand’s Chris, delivers an answer familiar to anyone who has been on the internet in the past two decades: Die Hard, the damn fine, explosive Bruce Willis classic that has been igniting debate about what exactly constitutes a Christmas movie since yuletides of yore.

Germany: the accidental empireGermanyThe Germans have a word for it – and it's a very long oneThe editor of the Accidental Empire series muses on another thing the Germans do extremely wellIt was the first thing I found strangely fascinating about German: a word that went on and on until you ran out of breath or got totally lost in the middle. Invariably it had to be hyphenated on to the row below.

‘My relationship with my family is still rocky, but – thanks to time and therapy – it’s one I’ve come to terms with.’ Composite: The Guardian/Getty Images‘My relationship with my family is still rocky, but – thanks to time and therapy – it’s one I’ve come to terms with.’ Composite: The Guardian/Getty ImagesLife and styleThe more I learned, the more I realized that my Christian beliefs didn’t line up with this so-called Christian nation – and the more I tried to share what I’d learned with friends and family, the more they wrote me off as a lost cause

Life and styleWhat is the handstand position?It is, of course, the position you have sex in when you're bored with having it in the back of a Citroën Saxo or on kitchen work surfaces. Grace from Big Brother was particularly skilled at all of them according to her ex, David McSweeney, who has told all to the Sun. While bravely wishing her well with her new beau, housemate Mikey, David was plainly heartbroken at his loss.