Ohio This article is more than 9 months oldPolice sue rapper Afroman for using footage of home raid in his music videosThis article is more than 9 months oldOhio officers, who conducted a botched raid of rapper’s home, are suing for invasion of privacy and emotional distress Police officers who conducted a botched armed raid of rapper Afroman’s home last year have filed a lawsuit against him for invasion of privacy and emotional distress after he used footage of it in his music videos.

Books blogTerry PratchettTerry Pratchett in quotes: 15 of the bestAs the literary world mourns the death of the Discworld creator, here are some of his most inspiring and memorable quotes. Add your favourites in the comments Terry Pratchett, author of the Discworld series, dies aged 66 Share your tributes and memories here The whole of life is just like watching a film. Only it’s as though you always get in ten minutes after the big picture has started, and no-one will tell you the plot, so you have to work it out all yourself from the clues.

The ObserverAstronomyA new play explores the short life of Jeremiah Horrocks, whose astonishing discoveries ‘changed the way we see the universe’ On a cloudy afternoon in England in 1639, 20-year-old Jeremiah Horrocks became the first person to accurately predict the transit of Venus and measure the distance from the Earth to the sun. His work proved, for the first time, that Earth is not at the centre of the universe, but revolves around the sun, refuting contemporary religious beliefs and laying the foundations for Isaac Newton’s groundbreaking work on gravity.

Winter readsHaruki Murakami This article is more than 12 years oldWinter reads: Norwegian Wood by Haruki MurakamiThis article is more than 12 years oldDamien G WalterThis potent rite-of-passage tale offers readers some useful pointers on keeping the heart warm in allegorically wintry timesThe novel that raised Haruki Murakami to literary superstardom ranges across the seasons, but the heart of its meaning is found in winter. When 30-something Toru Watanabe hears a fragment of the titular Beatles track after a long airplane flight, his memories are returned to his days as a young student and his love affair with the beautiful but damaged Naoko.

The ObserverCrime'I knew my sister was killed. I had to prove it.'Carol Gillies faced a wall of disbelief over her sister Arlene's disappearance. But last week Arlene's husband was jailed for her murderFrom the moment she heard her sister, Arlene Fraser, had disappeared, Carol Gillies knew it was murder and that her brother-in-law, Nat, was responsible. The problem she faced over the days, weeks and months that followed was convincing other people.

TelevisionReviewThe Claudia Karvan-led show is a compelling, well-cast and welcome escape from our 2020 horror stories: a telenovela in Sydney’s inner west Every woman has a story lodged in her brain about someone unexpectedly giving birth. It’s usually from “a friend of a friend” or something that’s been unconsciously absorbed from a news story or reality TV. But it’s always relayed to others in the same way: with a mix of total awe and abject horror.

The Observer's obituaries of 2015IndieObituaryCarey Lander remembered by Tracyanne Campbell1 March 1982 - 11 October 2015 Camera Obscura’s singer recalls the bravery, selflessness and humour of her bandmate and friend, who died of osteosarcoma this year at the age of 33 Read the Observer’s obituaries of 2015 in full here Steve Strange remembered by Martin Kemp I first met Carey in 2001. She’d moved to Glasgow for a year out before university, became friends with Gavin, our bass player, and ended up being in the video for our first single, Eighties Fan.

Guinness in Iris van Herpen’s splash dress, 2013. Photograph: Nick KnightGuinness in Iris van Herpen’s splash dress, 2013. Photograph: Nick KnightThe look I loveFashionThe fashion muse and heiress on the stylish Mitford side of her family, her uniform of black and white and the deaths of Alexander McQueen and Isabella Blow This is the splash dress, a collaboration between the photographer Nick Knight and designer Iris van Herpen. It involved me standing on top of a pillar in my shoes, naked apart from a thong, being splashed with water for about six hours until there was a shot they could work with.

FilmInterviewJuliette Lewis: 'I faced my fears'Ryan GilbeyAt 18, Juliette Lewis was a Hollywood star. But fame brought drug addiction and panic attacks. As she returns to the big screen, she talks revolt, rehab and rock'n'roll with Ryan GilbeyJuliette Lewis has been drug-free for – how long is it now? Give her a minute. She's working it out. "I was 22. I'm 40 now. So that's …" And yet one of the pleasures of being in her company is that she acts like someone trying to conceal a certain chemical wooziness.

Drum'n'bassAs a pioneering female DJ duo, the two best friends were integral to the rise of the 90s dance scene, before a car accident changed everything. Storm talks about the soul sister she lost Storm remembers the sound of glass shattering, but not how many seconds or minutes had passed before she realised something awful had happened. A 4.5kg metal cat’s eye had been dislodged from the road ahead by a passing van, and had smashed through their car windshield on the passenger side.