‘There was a message consistency that came from Dolly – of respect, self-care, boundaried behaviour – that we learned from their careful editorial.’ Photograph: Dolly/Bauer Media‘There was a message consistency that came from Dolly – of respect, self-care, boundaried behaviour – that we learned from their careful editorial.’ Photograph: Dolly/Bauer MediaOpinionAustralian media This article is more than 7 years oldMasturbation with fruit ... and other teenage lessons I learned from Dolly DoctorThis article is more than 7 years oldVan BadhamRecalling evenings spent with friends reading out advice from Dolly Doctor, I’m provoked to profound respect for the writers and editors. [Read More]

The ObserverStephen KingReviewStephen King's latest novel will leave you more afraid of the guy next door than of ghosts and ghoulsStephen King may be the acknowledged grand master of horror fiction, but he has always known that the everyday demons hiding behind the screen doors of small-town streets can chime with our deepest terrors just as effectively as the evil creature in the sewer. Mental illness, addiction, poverty, childhood trauma, alienation – these are the real monsters that crouch beneath the surface of our lives, and they stalk the pages of most of his fiction in one form or another, even in stories that appear to be concerned with more obviously supernatural forces of evil. [Read More]

Morning in America A 1913 photo of the John E Reagan family taken in Tampico, Illinois. From left are: John Reagan, his sons Neil and Ronald, and his wife Nellie Wilson Reagan. Photograph: AP Special report: United States  Ride 'em, cowboy Actor Ronald Reagan loads his gun in the 1953 western film Law and Order, in which Reagan plays a retired US marshall who can't hang up his holster. Photograph: AP/Universal [Read More]

US gun control This article is more than 3 months oldUS supreme court blocks ‘ghost gun’ makers again from selling at-home kitsThis article is more than 3 months oldJustices reverse federal judge’s order that allowed manufacturers to sell unregulated kits that convert into firearms The US supreme court on Monday barred two Texas-based manufacturers from selling products that can be quickly converted at home into firearms called “ghost guns”, granting a request by Joe Biden’s administration to once again block a federal judge’s order that had sided with companies. [Read More]

Life and styleConsumer advocacy group Choice will not recommend a single Australian pet insurance product Rocky is usually pretty responsible. The teddy bear lookalike Chihuahua-Jack Russell cross is too much of a “little old man soul” to get into much trouble. But one Sunday this April, while his owner Penny Lane was in the midst of packing for an interstate move, he vaulted from a stool to a high kitchen counter and devoured several of the chocolate brownies she’d baked for her farewell party. [Read More]

Australian police and policing This article is more than 2 months oldMan charged in Sydney over daylight shooting of Melbourne gangland figure Gavin PrestonThis article is more than 2 months oldPolice from Victoria and NSW raided residential properties in Bradbury, Yagoona and Campbelltown on Wednesday morning, before arresting a 22-year-old man Follow our Australia news live blog for latest updates Get our morning and afternoon news emails, free app or daily news podcast A Sydney man has been charged with murder and will be extradited over the alleged execution-style shooting of Melbourne gangland figure Gavin “Capable” Preston at a suburban cafe. [Read More]

Morocco This article is more than 4 years oldMother of Danish student suspected killed by jihadists demands death penaltyThis article is more than 4 years oldHelle Petersen asks trial in Morocco for ‘just’ penalty after murder of Louisa Vesterager Jespersen in Atlas mountains The mother of a Danish student who was beheaded, along with another Scandinavian woman, while hiking in Morocco’s High Atlas mountains has called for the suspected jihadist killers to face the death penalty as their trial neared its end. [Read More]

Florida This article is more than 11 years oldMystery Florida eyeball is probably from '10ft swordfish', experts sayThis article is more than 11 years oldSuggestions of eyeball's origin included a giant squid, a bigeye thresher shark and an unusually large sailfishExperts say a blue, grapefruit-sized eyeball which was found washed up on Pompano Beach in Florida on Wednesday is probably from a 10ft swordfish ITNA giant eyeball found washed up on a Florida beach is probably that of a giant swordfish, experts have said, bringing a disappointingly mundane ending to a bizarre marine mystery that set the internet abuzz with tales of monsters from the deep. [Read More]

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The Alice in Wonderland quiz

The Imagine Festival is celebrating the 150th Anniversary of Alice's Adventures in Wonderland! We have lots of events that you can come to during the festival. Do you know why a raven is like a writing desk? How well will you do in our Alice quiz?

Find out what else is happening in our Imagine Festival takeover

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MoviesHe was a brilliant and prolific film-maker, but he was hell to work with. And 16 years after his untimely death two of his former lovers are still arguing over him Rainer Werner Fassbinder is receiving belated recognition. Sixteen years after his death the bitter genius of German cinema is being celebrated in a mammoth two-month festival at the National Film Theatre. The NFT programme duly pays tribute to the Fassbinder Foundation and its director, his wife and editor Juliane Lorenz, without whom it would have been impossible to show his 44 films. [Read More]