Olena Zelenska: ‘I had the feeling I was inside a parallel reality.’ Photograph: Antoine D’Agata/Magnum Photos for the GuardianOlena Zelenska: ‘I had the feeling I was inside a parallel reality.’ Photograph: Antoine D’Agata/Magnum Photos for the GuardianVolodymyr ZelenskiyInterviewUkraine’s first lady Olena Zelenska on being Russia’s target No 2: ‘When you see their crimes, maybe they really are capable of anything’Shaun WalkerHer husband Volodymyr Zelenskiy is leading his nation’s resistance to Putin’s invasion – and her family is under threat.
Julian Assange This article is more than 1 month oldUS officials monitored pro-Assange protests in Australia for ‘anti-US sentiment’, documents revealThis article is more than 1 month oldPreviously classified papers detail how the US embassy in Canberra responded to WikiLeaks’ release of embassy cables in 2010 and ‘sensationalist’ local media
Follow our Australia news live blog for latest updates Get our morning and afternoon news emails,free app or daily news podcast American officials monitored pro-Assange protests in Australia for “anti-US sentiment”, warned of “increasing sympathy, particularly on the left” for the WikiLeaks founder in his home country and derided local media’s “sensationalist” reporting of the explosive 2010 cable leaks, previously classified records show.
Gilgo Beach serial killingsAlleged Long Island serial killer indicted on new murder charge of fourth victimRex Heuermann was indicted for killing Maureen Brainard-Barnes, whose remains were found in marshland along Gilgo Beach
The accused Long Island serial killer Rex Heuermann has been indicted on a new murder charge in the killing of a fourth woman, Maureen Brainard-Barnes, who investigators believe was the first of the “Gilgo Four” to be killed, according to an indictment unsealed on Tuesday.
Play timeStageReviewThe Place, London
This imaginative stage show is ripping fun for under-fives, who will be mesmerised by the paper birds and monsters
My son Jamie has just turned four and he’s seen a few shows, mostly puppets and Julia Donaldson adaptations. I tell him this will be a new kind of show for him. “I like the old kind of show better,” he says, a boy not keen on change.
Mexico This article is more than 5 years oldMexico: 'worst governor in history' sentenced to nine years for corruptionThis article is more than 5 years oldJavier Duarte, former governor of Veracruz, pleaded guilty to charges of criminal association and money laundering
A former Mexican state governor has pleaded guilty to charges of criminal association and money laundering, after presiding over an administration whose thuggery and excesses outraged the public – and eventually proved too embarrassing for his political allies.
Tim Gane and Laetitia Sadier.Tim Gane and Laetitia Sadier pick their favourite tracks and reflect on two decades of pioneering electropop
by Ben Beaumont-ThomasStereolab aren’t on the same page about why they’re touring again after a nine-year hiatus. “We’ve got seven albums coming back out...” says Tim Gane. “For the money,” Lætitia Sadier says simultaneously. They are the core duo of one of the best bands of the turn of the century: blending lounge-pop, punk, tropicalía and political poetry, they stuck out like a sore thumb during the Britpop era.
IsraelIn 1910, the first kibbutz was founded on strongly Zionist socialist principles. One hundred years later, the movement is still holding on. But can it survive in a globalised world?Reggie Pearlson clutched the tiny bundle close. She and her newborn son were travelling in a lorry from hospital back to the embryonic kibbutz close to the Sea of Galilee in northern Israel.
The year was 1960, and Reggie was a recent arrival from England to join a nucleus of determined pioneers, intent on building both their vision of a communal way of life and the fledgling state of Israel, declared 12 years earlier – the same year that Kibbutz Kfar Hanasi was founded.
JK RowlingReviewJK Rowling’s will they/won’t they detective duo return in a hefty but immersive tale of an attempted rescue from a cult
In the 10 years since a debut crime novel entitled The Cuckoo’s Calling was published and its author – Robert Galbraith – revealed to be none other than JK Rowling, the Cormoran Strike books have, like the Harry Potter novels before them, steadily expanded in size. The hardback of 2022’s The Ink Black Heart, sixth in the series, was very nearly twice the length of that first volume, and this year’s offering, The Running Grave, is similarly hefty.
Horse racing This article is more than 2 years oldTrainer Johnny Farrelly permanently excluded from British racing by BHAThis article is more than 2 years oldFarrelly found to have seriously breached regulationsSomerset trainer has right to appeal after seven yearsJohnny Farrelly, who has trained from a stable in Somerset since 2013, has been permanently excluded from racing with the right to a review after seven years for serious breaches of the sport’s safeguarding regulations, the British Horseracing Authority said on Tuesday in a statement.
World newsUtah jurors deliver blow to polygamistHis five wives weep as Mormon father of 29 children faces jail and state prosecutors plan more trialsA Mormon with five wives and 29 children could face up to 25 years in jail after being found guilty of bigamy in America's biggest polygamy case in nearly five decades.
Tom Green, 52, has also been charged with first-degree felony rape of a child for allegedly having sexual relations in 1986 with Linda Kunz, his first plural wife, when she was just 13.