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The skeleton of a tyrannosaurus bataar dinosaur was smuggled out of Mongolia by Eric Prokopi, of Florida. Photograph: ReutersThe skeleton of a tyrannosaurus bataar dinosaur was smuggled out of Mongolia by Eric Prokopi, of Florida. Photograph: ReutersThe ObserverDinosaurs This article is more than 4 years oldDinosaur fossil collectors ‘price museums out of the market’This article is more than 4 years oldScientists demand controls on private sales as celebrities help push cost of relics into the millionsLeading US palaeontologists are calling for a worldwide halt to the sale of vertebrate dinosaur fossils.

My life in sexSexThe 23-year-old asexual I first thought I might be asexual when I broke up with my university boyfriend of three and a half years, and felt overwhelming relief that I wouldn’t have to have sex with him again. It took another two years, two more failed relationships and lots of online research to finally realise that my suspicions were correct. I identify as hetero-romantic asexual: I feel romantically towards the opposite sex, but don’t experience sexual attraction.

Sexual healingLife and styleI used to enjoy dressing up for him as part of our sexual repertoire. Suddenly, after eight years, there’s no chance of intimacy without it I am a 50-year-old woman and deeply in love with my partner, who is 65. We have been together for around eight years. When I met this man I was excited to be with someone who was attentive and enjoyed sex as much as I did.

BooksSpeak up, I can't hear youCan it really be true that men and women understand language in different ways? Nonsense, says Deborah Cameron in this second extract from her new book - the supposed miscommunication is a myth To read the first extract, click here John Gray's Men Are From Mars, Women Are From Venus contains a chapter entitled Speaking Different Languages. In it, Gray says that the "original" Martians and Venusians communicated without difficulty, because they knew their languages were mutually incomprehensible.

Aston Villa 1 - 0 Zrinjski Mostar Aston Villa Home team scorers John McGinn 90 +3:57 Zrinjski Mostar Away team scorers Match stats Possession ZRI AVL 23 77 Goal attempts 18 Aston Villa Off target 2 Zrinjski Mostar 9 Aston Villa On target 1 Zrinjski Mostar Corners 15 0 Fouls 11 9 Lineups Aston Villa 1 Martinez 4 Konsa 3 Diego Carlos 17 Lenglet 12 Digne 31 Bailey 32 Dendoncker 8 Tielemans 7 McGinn 22 Zaniolo 24 Duran Substitutes 2 Cash (s 46') 6 Douglas Luiz (s 46') 9 Traore (s 82') 11 Watkins (s 46') 14 Torres 16 Chambers 25 Olsen 42 Marschall 58 O'Reilly Zrinjski Mostar 35 Maric 6 Corluka 27 Jakoljevic 95 Senic 15 Radic 91 Ticinovic 22 Hrvanovic 20 Ivancic 5 Canadjija 25 Cuze 99 Bilbija Substitutes 1 Sefo 2 Marin 8 Zlomislic (s 73') 9 Sabljic 10 Kis (s 77') 14 Balic 17 Malekinusic (s 46') 24 Misic 29 Prskalo 50 Memija (s 73') 55 Niron 93 Kozulj (s 62') ncG1vNJzZmivp6x7tbTEoKyaqpSerq96wqikaJ6fpMGjrculZqaZpJi1cICTaWxrcGA%3D

Ben Whishaw: ‘Even the thought of reading a speech terrifies me.’ Photograph: Elliott Morgan/The GuardianHe’s been Paddington, Keats, and now a doctor in This Is Going to Hurt. He talks about his off-stage shyness and why he wasn’t delighted by the reveal of Q’s sexuality in No Time to Die by Tom LamontBen Whishaw, quite apart from being one of the best British actors we have, is an expert dunker of his biscuits in tea.

Opioids crisis This article is more than 4 years oldDoctor who was paid by Purdue to push opioids to testify against drugmakerThis article is more than 4 years oldDr Russell Portenoy agreed to cooperate with lawyers in return for dropping legal actions against him A doctor who led the charge for mass prescribing of opioids in the US, and was then paid by Purdue Pharma to help drive sales of OxyContin, is to testify against the drugmaker and other companies facing a slew of lawsuits over America’s opioid epidemic.

ObituaryRD WingfieldCreator of the laconic Inspector Jack Frost, he was also a prolific writer of radio playsThe crime novelist Rodney Wingfield, who has died aged 79 of cancer, was the creator of Inspector William "Jack" Frost, one of Britain's most popular fictional detectives. Rodney was also a fine radio dramatist, and that was the medium in which Frost first made his mark. However, it took television to transform Inspector Frost into a household name, following the 1992 launch of the series A Touch of Frost.

TV reviewPoetryReviewA dramatised narrative poem might sound a bit dull but this one with Alan Rickman and Emma Thompson was wonderfulThere are certain phrases that make the spirits of all but the most truly, thoroughly, devotedly highbrow television viewers (and I am not one of the eight left in the country) quail within them. They are "a dramatisation of a narrative poem", "to mark National Poetry Day" and "starring Alan Rickman and Emma Thompson"