My son, Osama: the al-Qaida leaders mother speaks for the first time | Osama bin Laden

Alia Ghanem at home in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia. Photograph: David Levene/The GuardianNearly 17 years since 9/11, Osama bin Laden’s family remains an influential part of Saudi society – as well as a reminder of the darkest moment in the kingdom’s history. Can they escape his legacy? Read the interview in Arabic by Martin ChulovOn the corner couch of a spacious room, a woman wearing a brightly patterned robe sits expectantly.

Picasso nearly fell over backwards when he saw her Lee Millers son on their intense rel

‘He kissed her and he hugged her’ … detail of a photograph of Picasso and Miller at his Paris studio after liberation. Photograph: Lee Miller Archives, England 2022. All rights reserved. www.leemiller.co.uk © Succession Picasso/DACS 2022‘He kissed her and he hugged her’ … detail of a photograph of Picasso and Miller at his Paris studio after liberation. Photograph: Lee Miller Archives, England 2022. All rights reserved. www.leemiller.co.uk © Succession Picasso/DACS 2022Art and designShe was a model-turned-photographer whose unflinching eye captured the horror of the Nazis.

Sunday with Risn Murphy: My fella is Italian, so we eat quite posh | Sunday with

The ObserverSunday with…InterviewSunday with Róisín Murphy: ‘My fella is Italian, so we eat quite posh’Rich PelleyThe singer describes blissful days in Ibiza, singing and dancing while going for walksSunday breakfast? I don’t partake in breakfast much. The kids have porridge on a school day, but help themselves to rubbish cereal at the weekend. I play tunes in the background, annoying the kids, because we don’t have the same taste in music.

Tim Howard: Growing up with Tourette syndrome and my love of football

The ObserverEvertonIn an extract from his autobiography, The Keeper, Everton’s Tim Howard explains how OCD and Tourette syndrome affected his childhood but how they also brought unique skills to his gameI wasn’t much of a student. Actually, that’s an understatement: I despised school. I couldn’t sit still, couldn’t focus, desperately wanted to be anywhere but at my desk. I hated school, hated everything about it – the tick, tick of the clock on the wall.

Book week costume ideas: the coolest (and easiest) characters for 2023, according to booksellers

Parents and parentingFrom print-out llama masks to ‘the most delightful witch’, literature aficionados share their suggestions for the Children’s Book Week costume parade It’s supposed to be a bit of fun that reflects the love of reading but, despite rolling around every year, Children’s Book Week often inspires dread in parents tasked with pulling one or more costumes together. Book week is now such a big deal that there are two children’s books about the event: There’s no Such Book by Jessica Dettmann, published last year, and Book Week Bear by Rory H Mather, which came out in July.

Chez Georges: restaurant review

Jay Rayner on restaurantsFoodReviewChez Georges, a Parisian brasserie, has the lot: grubby decor, grumpy waitresses and simply superb cooking1 rue du Mail, Paris 75002 (00 33 1 42 60 07 11). Meal for two, including wine and service: €125 It doesn't matter how good an impersonation it is. It doesn't matter whether it is a faithful homage rather than mere clumsy translation. Sometimes I just crave the real thing. In any case, I was goaded into it.

From Aubrey Plazas swimsuit to bottled rainwater: this weeks fashion trends

The measureFashionWhat’s hot and what’s not in fashion this week Going upAubrey Plaza’s swimsuit Specifically in Black Bear. Grownup Baywatch. Cher Specifically,red-carpet Cher between 1970 and 1976, the inspiration behind Zendaya at the Oscars and Dua Lipa at the Grammys. Arthur Parkinson The Kew-trained king of the small-space garden and heir apparent to Monty Don. Arthur Parkinson: the new Monty. Photograph: courtesy of Arthur ParkinsonTennis off-whites Wimbledon is back on. Fall Out Boy’s Pete Wentz plays six hours a day.

Little Shop of Horrors review - Jake Gyllenhaal blossoms in plant musical

MusicalsReviewNew York City Center The 1982 musical about a man-eating plant rides again in an uproarious concert performance – and to the audience, Gyllenhaal isn’t even the biggest star onstage Part of the Encore! Off-Center season of seminal musicals given semi-staged concert performances, this version of Little Shop of Horrors had an indecently short run – just three performances, the last of which was on Thursday. This scarcity – combined with a bona fide Hollywood star playing the dweeby shop assistant Seymour Krelborn – gives the show the feeling of a real event, despite being hashed out in just eight days of rehearsal.

The embuggerance of losing Terry Pratchett | Science

Brain flappingScienceThe embuggerance of losing Terry PratchettThe death of Terry Pratchett from early onset Alzheimer’s is a bitter blow for many. But his life and legacy will always be cause for celebration This is a piece I never thought I’d have to write. On some conscious surface level I sort of knew that Terry Pratchett would one day leave us, but, and I’m sure many felt the same, I never really believed it, deep down.

The Sports Gene: What Makes the Perfect Athlete by David Epstein review

Sport and leisure booksReviewRichard Moore on an illuminating book that challenges the notion that in sport, practice matters more than innate talent"The more I practise, the luckier I get," said the golfer Gary Player, giving birth to one of sport's most famous aphorisms, one that is cherished by the world's most driven athletes, their coaches and, perhaps dangerously in some cases, their parents. It is easy to see why it is so appealing.