Chicago hip-hop feud deepens after death of Joseph 'Lil Jojo' Coleman | Chicago

Chicago This article is more than 11 years oldChicago hip-hop feud deepens after death of Joseph 'Lil Jojo' ColemanThis article is more than 11 years oldBitter Chicago hip-hop feud deepens with launch of remix warning of reprisals over death of young rapperA bitter feud between two Chicago hip-hop stars and their affiliates has deepened with the launch of a new remix that warns of bloody reprisals over the murder of one of the rappers.

DM Thomas obituary | Books

BooksObituaryDM Thomas obituaryAuthor, poet and scholar of Russian literature whose greatest success came with his controversial 1981 novel The White HotelThe greatest notoriety – and critical and sales success – enjoyed by the writer DM Thomas, who has died aged 88, came with his controversial novel The White Hotel (1981), inspired by his readings of Sigmund Freud and by Anatoly Kuznetsov’s Holocaust novel Babi Yar. Thomas’s novel combined these two influences in a driving, non-naturalistic plot centred on Lisa Erdman, a fictional patient of Freud’s, who progresses through sexual obsession to being shot down by Nazis in a ravine outside Kyiv.

Heads in the sand: code of silence in Sicilian town that sheltered mafia boss | Mafia

Denaro could be seen strolling the streets of Campobello di Mazara. Photograph: Alessio Mamo for the GuardianAuthorities suspect omerta may have helped Matteo Messina Denaro live in freedom among 10,000 people by Lorenzo Tondo in Campobello di MazaraIt is hard to believe that in the small Sicilian town of Campobello di Mazara, where everyone knows each other and their secrets, no one thought to inquire after the identity of the man who had turned up out of the blue, with no known family or friends, over a year ago.

How Bloody Sunday unfolded in pictures | UK news

How Bloody Sunday unfolded – in pictures Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Share via Email As Derry prepares to mark the 50th anniversary of Bloody Sunday, we revisit the archive to show how the day unfolded on 30 January 1972, when British paratroopers opened fire on a civil rights march and ended up killing 14 civilians Main image: Demonstrators and British soldiers in Derry face off minutes before the paratroopers opened fire.

Naomi Campbell tells judge: 'This is a big inconvenience for me' | War crimes

War crimes This article is more than 13 years oldNaomi Campbell tells judge: 'This is a big inconvenience for me'This article is more than 13 years oldSierra Leone war crimes tribunal hears of dinner and diamonds as supermodel makes no secret of her reluctance to testifyThere were several minutes this morning, after the prosecutor had trumpeted her arrival, when it seemed entirely possible that Naomi Campbell had failed to show up for her most eagerly awaited show in years.

The greatest banned songs of all time ranked! | Music

Gym’ll fix it … Olivia Newton-John and friends get Physical. Photograph: Sipa/Rex/ShutterstockThirty years on from 2 Live Crew being banned by the Beeb, we pick 20 foul-mouthed, orgiastic outings deemed too scandalous for public consumption by Laura Snapes20. Heaven 17(We Don’t Need This) Fascist Groove Thang (1981) A nervy BBC banned the Human League splinter group’s funky debut single for potentially libelling the US’s new president Ronald Reagan as a “fascist god in motion”.

Why do cephalopods produce ink? And what's ink made of, anyway? | Biology

Lost worlds revisitedBiologyWhy do cephalopods produce ink? And what's ink made of, anyway?Cephalopods such as octopuses and squid have been known for their ink since antiquity. But what do we know about the evolution of ink and inking? Cephalopods, the group of molluscs that includes octopuses, cuttlefish, squids, ammonites, nautiluses and belemnites, are a weird bunch. Not only are they strange when anatomically compared to their shelled relatives like bivalves, snails and chitons but their evolution, physiology and behaviour makes them almost as interesting as vertebrates (I’m kidding, they’re way more interesting).

Adam Driver: Lots of things have been said about my face | Adam Driver

The ObserverAdam DriverInterviewAdam Driver: ‘Lots of things have been said about my face’Barbara EllenAs Lena Dunham’s love interest in Girls, actor Adam Driver represents a new kind of male. Now starring with Ben Stiller in Noah Baumbach’s new film, here the ex-marine discusses sex scenes, the internet and his theatre group for troops Adam Driver, 31, is the Emmy-nominated star from the HBO series Girls, in which he plays Hannah Horvath’s (Lena Dunham) on-off love interest Adam Sackler.

As Consciousness Is Harnessed to Flesh: Diaries 1964-1980 by Susan Sontag review

Autobiography and memoirReviewSontag's thoughts on heartache, politics – and her legsThe title of the second volume of Susan Sontag's diaries comes from a note in the margin next to an entry from 1965: "spiritual project – but tied to making an object (as consciousness is harnessed to flesh)". It is a curious phrase, suggesting the paradox that is art: a real, tangible thing resulting from a long, indefinable process. It evokes, too, the duality of Sontag herself: the public figure, whose provocative essays can seem to readers intimidatingly confident, and the mind that made them – which, as her diaries reveal, was unusually full of pain.

Barbara Mullen obituary | Models

Barbara Mullen in a black Hockanum suit by Capri, with a handbag by Netti Rosenstein. Photograph: Genevieve Naylor/Corbis/Getty ImagesBarbara Mullen in a black Hockanum suit by Capri, with a handbag by Netti Rosenstein. Photograph: Genevieve Naylor/Corbis/Getty ImagesModelsObituaryBarbara Mullen obituaryModel whose versatility enabled her to sustain a career across three decadesThe 1950s, a golden period for fashion photography, introduced the world to names such as Richard Avedon, Lillian Bassman and William Klein.