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Here comes the sun: Beach bodies in 1970s Los Angeles – in pictures Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Share via Email You can feel the heat sizzling off Tod Papageorge’s decades-old photos of the LA coastline and the surf culture around it Main image: Scorchio … an image from Tod Papageorge’s At The Beach. Photograph: Tod Papageorge Tue 20 Jun 2023 07.

OpinionMali This article is more than 11 years oldMali's conflict and a 'war over skin colour'This article is more than 11 years oldAfua HirschMany Tuaregs have fled Mali after a split along colour lines. But will the factions unite against an Islamic state?I don't know one word of Tamasheq, the ancient Berber language spoken by Tuaregs, tens of thousands of whom are currently living as refugees in northern Burkina Faso. But one thing I could understand from the group of Tuareg men I sat with under a tent in Mentao – an inhospitable refugee camp a few hundred kilometres from the border with Mali – was the repeated gesture as they pointed to their skin.

US politics This article is more than 1 year oldSarah Huckabee Sanders ‘cancer-free’ after thyroid surgeryThis article is more than 1 year old‘By the grace of God, I am now cancer-free’, Sanders, 42, formerly Trump’s press secretary, says after successful operation Sarah Huckabee Sanders, the former Donald Trump White House press secretary turned Republican candidate for Arkansas governor, said on Friday she was “cancer-free” after undergoing surgery for thyroid cancer.

SexNot long ago, many clubs catered to enthusiastic leathermen. But predatory property developers, changing attitudes to gender and the rise of rubber threaten the scene’s existence In a dimly lit sidestreet in London’s East End there is a black box of a building scrawled with graffiti. A CCTV camera perched above the door signals it probably isn’t a squat, but there is no signage. Inside, past three sets of doors and a changing room cordoned off with an old tarpaulin, is a shadowy warren of alcoves, cages and dark corners.

RapWith Machine Gun Kelly and Post Malone swapping gold grills for guitars this year, are white rappers using Black aesthetics becoming a thing of the past? With Jack Harlow’s major label debut Thats What They All Say selling strongly alongside a bumper deluxe version of Eminem’s Music to be Murdered By, white rappers are riding unexpectedly high at the end of 2020. Harlow, a 22-year-old from Kentucky, celebrates being a dorky outsider who has somehow made it to the top of the rap game (“At 16 I never thought I would look this cute”) while using language that is usually cringeworthy coming from suburban white people.

Keith Haring This article is more than 1 year oldAnalysisBrutal sale of Keith Haring’s Radiant Baby reflects a genius cut shortThis article is more than 1 year oldJonathan JonesArtist’s childhood bedroom painting destined to become ‘art world commodity’ with auction next month Keith Haring painting cut from artist’s bedroom wall to be sold at auction The Radiant Baby, painted by Keith Haring on his childhood bedroom wall, has been ripped from its tender, intimate and original context to become an art world commodity.

Australia women's cricket teamIndia make history with first ever women’s Test victory over AustraliaTourists’ 75-run lead proves indefensible after batting collapseAlyssa Healy’s captaincy starts with first Test loss since 2014Australia’s women have tasted defeat to India in a Test match for the first time, beaten by eight wickets on the last day of their one-off match in Mumbai. After losing 7-55 to end their second innings, Alyssa Healy’s tourists could only set the hosts a target of 75 at Wankhede Stadium on Sunday.

Monsters of rock … (from left) Dave Murray, Bruce Dickinson and Janick Gers at Rock in Rio in 2001. Photograph: Mick Hutson/RedfernsAs The Number of the Beast turns 40 – and is set to crash back into the charts – we appraise the best of the band who brought epic, bloody storytelling to heavy metal by Alexis Petridis30. Burning Ambition (1980)Famously no fan of punk – music he described as “against my religion” – bassist and founding member Steve Harris has always denied its influence on early Iron Maiden.

My family valuesFamilyInterviewRaleigh Ritchie: my family valuesInterview by Angela WintleThe actor and musician talks about being close to his mum, who was adopted, and how his love of music comes from his dad My real name is Jacob Anderson, but my singer name is Raleigh Ritchie – a compound of the forenames of my two favourite characters from Wes Anderson’s The Royal Tenenbaums. When I told Dad I’d adopted a new name, I think he was slightly gutted because he’s proud of the family name.