Music blogKurt CobainKurt Cobain’s Montage of Heck tape: his ex-girlfriend sets record straightAs the internet implodes over a ‘newly’ surfaced pre-Bleach mixtape by the Nirvana frontman, one of its original recipients reveals how and when it was really made
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Pentagon officials rang up nearly $1m at casinos without serious reprisal, a report by the department’s inspector general has revealed. Photograph: AlamyPentagon officials rang up nearly $1m at casinos without serious reprisal, a report by the department’s inspector general has revealed. Photograph: AlamyUS defence spending This article is more than 7 years oldPentagon officials allowed government spending at strip clubs and casinosThis article is more than 7 years oldDefense department officials did not adequately discipline subordinates who were found using government charge cards on ‘adult entertainment’, report finds
BBCRussell Brand and Jonathan Ross's 'offensive' calls: transcriptExcerpts from Russell Brand and Jonathan Ross on The Russell Brand Show, BBC Radio 2, Saturday October 18[Speaking on Andrew Sachs' answerphone]
Russell Brand: Hello Andrew Sachs, this is Russell Brand … you are meant to be on my show now mate … I am here with Jonathan Ross. I could still do the interview to your answerphone.
Jonathan Ross: Let's do it …
Spot the sniper – in pictures Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Share via Email German artist Simon Menner has photographed a camouflaged sniper in each of these images. Can you spot them?
• Jonathan Jones on camouflage and the art of disguise
Wed 19 Feb 2014 09.11 EST Last modified on Thu 26 Mar 2020 10.47 EDT The sniper is above and slightly to the right of the brownish, rotten wood Share on Facebook Share on Twitter There he is!
Participants take part in the 13th Gay Pride in Istanbul, Turkey, in 2015. Photograph: Xinhua/REX/ShutterstockParticipants take part in the 13th Gay Pride in Istanbul, Turkey, in 2015. Photograph: Xinhua/REX/ShutterstockLGBTQ+ rightsThe official fiction, Brian Whitaker explains, is that gay people don’t exist in the Middle East. They do – and for many of them, the attitudes of family and society are a much bigger problem than the fear of being persecuted
Florida This article is more than 1 year oldFlorida: alleged burglars arrested after calling 911 for help moving belongingsThis article is more than 1 year oldTwo arrested in Kissimmee after calling for assistance moving items from burglarized house and a ride to the airport
Sheriffs in Florida arrested two purportedly bumbling burglars after one allegedly called 911, intending to ask police for help moving belongings from a house they broke into, authorities said.
Film recapMoviesKillers: Katherine Heigl and Ashton Kutcher are victims of a bungled execution – film on TV recapThe characters are blank and the stars appear to exist in their own separate vacuums in this, the third worst film of 2010, which is showing on Channel 5 at 10pm on Sunday Read Jason Solomons' review of Killers
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"How weird is this going to get?" – JenKatherine Heigl has struck upon a novel strategy to promote her new TV show State of Affairs – she's basically apologising for her entire career.
The ObserverFictionReviewA sensation in France, this tale of a besotted wife who demands devotion from her husband has been likened to Patricia Highsmith and Gone Girl
A week may be a long time in politics but it can feel longer still in a tempestuous marriage. Superficially, the couple at the centre of Maud Ventura’s compulsively disquieting debut embody domestic bliss: they have good looks and professional success, two children and an elegant home.
Briell Decker, an ex-wife of Warren Jeffs, at his mansion in Hildale, Uta, now a refuge called the Dream Centre. Photograph: Rachel Aston/The GuardianBriell Decker, an ex-wife of Warren Jeffs, at his mansion in Hildale, Uta, now a refuge called the Dream Centre. Photograph: Rachel Aston/The GuardianReligionBriell Decker was 18 when she became the 65th wife of US cult leader Warren Jeffs. Can she help heal the town his FLDS sect ruled for generations?
TV reviewNaturismReviewSome viewers may not have had the best interests of the teenage nudists in mind …Your 17-year-old daughter tells you she's getting into the idea of public nudity. You worry she's not old enough to think through all the consequences and that not every man and woman who sees her naked will be admiring her freedom of expression. So what do you do? Nothing, and hope it's a passing phase?