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Missouri This article is more than 5 months oldPolice search Missouri River for barrels after body found in kidnapping caseThis article is more than 5 months oldOfficials say evidence linked to case of Timothy Haslett could be located in river after remains of potential witness discovered Missouri police are warning that more evidence linked to an alleged violent kidnapper could be located in the state’s namesake river after the remains of a potential witness were found there last month. [Read More]

When Saturday ComesSoccerThere was a time when the food at football stadiums was so bad even seagulls turned up their noses at it. Not any more By Pete Brooksbank for When Saturday Comes There was a time not too long ago when anyone hoping for a warm meal on the terraces of a lower-league football match would face a stark choice: Pot Noodle, or hunger. While many understandably chose the latter, you would still see innumerable tubs of freeze-dried slop perched precariously on crush barriers, one wayward shot away from discharging their rehydrated gruel over unlucky bystanders. [Read More]

Three thingsAustralian lifestyleIn our weekly interview about objects, the actor tells us about a luxurious dressing gown and her inherited love of tea Read more Three things interviews here Get our weekend culture and lifestyle email Kat Stewart is best known for her performances in two very different Australian TV shows. Her breakout role was in the first season of Underbelly, where she played gangland wife Roberta Williams with chilling excellence. [Read More]

ShortcutsHealth & wellbeingA study at the University of Nottingham has shown that blood drains from someone’s face when they are under stress. Here are the other bodily signs to look out forTouch your nose. If it is cold, you may need to calm down. Science, by using thermal imaging cameras and stressing the hell out of students, has discovered that stress causes a cold nose (and face). Blood moves from the face to other parts of the body that might need it more in a dangerous situation, such as muscles and limbs. [Read More]

TheatreReviewBarbican theatre, London Michael R Jackson’s Pulitzer-winning play is a strikingly original, highly entertaining tour of identity politics and the struggles of selfhood Michael R Jackson’s “meta” musical is as smart and slippery as it was hailed to be on Broadway. A Black, queer, New York theatre usher (Kyle Ramar Freeman) is writing a play about a Black queer man who, in turn, is writing a play about a Black queer man. [Read More]

Sinéad O'ConnorCause of Sinéad O’Connor’s death ruled as natural causesSouthwark coroner’s court closes its case with brief statement, following singer’s death in July last year A coroner has determined that Sinéad O’Connor died of natural causes. A brief statement from Southwark coroner’s court in London, the city where the singer-songwriter had been living at the end of her life, said: “This is to confirm that Ms O’Connor died of natural causes. [Read More]

The ObserverTV comedyInterviewDerry Girl Saoirse-Monica Jackson: ‘Yes, we have a harsh sense of humour’Holly WilliamsThe star of Channel 4’s comedy hit talks fame, facial contortions and globalising Northern Irish slang In Derry, Saoirse-Monica Jackson’s face is painted across a wall, several metres high, alongside the four other lead cast members of Derry Girls. The mural was unveiled earlier this year to celebrate the second season of the Channel 4 hit comedy, and has been warmly received by residents of the Northern Irish city. [Read More]

UK newsLampooned conductor bounces backFranz Welser-Möst, lampooned as "Frankly Worse than Most" when he ran the London Philharmonic, has bounced back to take the baton of one of the world's greatest orchestras. The Austrian-born conductor is taking over the Cleveland orchestra - arguably America's finest, and among the world's top five - from the legendary Christoph von Dohnanyi. Welser-Möst, 38, left the London Philharmonic three years ago after critical lashings. " [Read More]

Colorado This article is more than 2 months oldMan kills himself instead of carrying out US amusement park shooting, police sayThis article is more than 2 months oldColorado authorities say heavily armed 20-year-old found dead at Glenwood Caverns Adventure Park during closing hours A heavily armed man killed himself rather than carrying out an apparent plan to shoot up a mountaintop amusement park in Colorado, authorities said Monday. The 20-year-old man was found dead at Glenwood Caverns Adventure Park on Saturday morning before it opened to the public, apparently breaking into the park while it was closed. [Read More]

Audiobook of the weekAudiobooksReviewReverend Richard Coles captures the rhythms of English village life in his reading of his debut novel The debut novel from broadcaster and cleric Reverend Richard Coles, Murder Before Evensong features Daniel Clement, amateur sleuth and rector of St Mary’s church in Champton, an English village surrounded by verdant hills and country lanes lined with primroses. Set in the late 1980s, the book introduces us to a cast of characters including: flower arrangers Stella Harper and Anne Dollinger; an aristocratic landowner, Bernard de Floures; a retired headmaster Ned Thwaite; and Daniel’s no-nonsense mother, Audrey, who “sometimes reminded [Daniel] of Pope Pius IX, who responded to the loss of sovereign powers over the papal states by making himself infallible”. [Read More]