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Exploitation in focusGlobal development This article is more than 3 years oldWorld's biggest porn site under fire over rape and abuse videosThis article is more than 3 years oldPetition highlighting failure of Pornhub to protect rape and revenge porn victims has attracted over 350,000 signatures Opinion: Pornhub needs to change – or shut down An online petition accusing Pornhub, the UK’s biggest open access porn site, from profiting from videos of rape and sexual abuse has reached over 350,000 signatures.

Internet This article is more than 11 years old'Parasite' porn websites stealing images and videos posted by young peopleThis article is more than 11 years oldYoung people warned they are likely to lose control of sexually explicit material once they have posted it onlineChildren and young people are posting thousands of sexually explicit images of themselves and their peers online, which are then being stolen by porn websites, according to a leading internet safety organisation.

ObituaryLord KitchenerMaster of Trinidadian music who introduced the calypso to BritainThe arrival, in 1948 at Tilbury docks, of "Lord Kitchener", who has died aged 77, is preserved on film. He had his guitar with him, and Kitchener, one of the great calypsonians - and the trailblazer responsible for the growth of Trinidadian music's popularity in Britain - appears as one of those dignified representatives of first-generation Caribbean immigrants. He was exotic, immaculately dressed and, as is the calypsonian's wont, ready with a line in topical verse.

PaintingObituaryRoy Oxlade obituaryPainter with a distinctive style characterised by wild, spontaneous brushwork, bold colour and improvised imagesRoy Oxlade, one of the most impressive British painters of the past 50 years, who has died aged 85, was what is sometimes known as an artist's artist. Although his name is perhaps unfamiliar to the general public, his peers, students, teaching colleagues and curators held him in high esteem. He exhibited regularly in the UK and abroad, was a prolific and stylish writer on the art of many periods and an influential figure in adult art education.

Utah This article is more than 9 months oldSuing Gwyneth Paltrow ‘absolutely not’ worth it, says Utah manThis article is more than 9 months oldRetired optometrist Terry Sanderson, 76, faces seven-figure legal bill after unsuccessful lawsuit over ski slope collision The retired optometrist who unsuccessfully sued Gwyneth Paltrow over a 2016 ski crash says taking the Oscar-winning actor to court had “absolutely not” been worth it so far, but he also had not ruled out pursuing an appeal.

BooksReviewStevie Davies is moved by Mary Doria Russell's testament to the incredible generosity of Italians during the Nazi occupation, A Thread of Grace A Thread of Grace by Mary Doria Russell 448pp, Doubleday, £16.99 1943, Anno Fascista XXII: across the Maritime Alps a remnant of the French Jews climb, shepherded by Italian soldiers returning to their homeland, for Italy has broken with Nazi Germany and surrendered to the Allies. They move into a territory of goodness and hospitality, to be sheltered under German persecution by a community in whom, as Russell writes, "

Top 10sSpaceThe Italian astronaut Samantha Cristoforetti chooses her favourite extraterrestrial reading, taking in fiction by Italo Calvino and Stanisław Lem alongside reportage and history One of the funny little things I noticed after having lived in space for a while is that, contrary to everyday experience on Earth, it took some effort to keep my arms pressed against my body. Had I remembered better my childhood reading, I wouldn’t have been surprised.

ArtObituaryBarry FlanaganArtist who defined himself as an English-speaking itinerant European sculptorBarry Flanagan, who has died of motor neurone disease aged 68, decided upon his vocation early: "I was a fully fledged sculptor from the age of 17. I stepped right into it and embraced the physical world." In late 1979 the first of his trademark hares was cast in bronze, the classic material he believed best suited an artist whose vision depended on a linear predisposition, the dark surfaces lending what he called bloom and drama to the work.

Dive in, the water's lovely ... wild swimming in France Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Share via Email Many flock to France's coast in the summer, but there are also uncrowded, azure lakes, thermal springs, fresh rivers and waterfalls waiting to be discovered, says Daniel Start, author of Wild Swimming France Read Daniel's tips for wild swimming in the valleys inland from the Côte d'Azur in Saturday's Travel section Daniel Start