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Summer essentialsRelationships This article is more than 1 year oldWhen I went through a breakup in my late 20s, I became a walking clicheThis article is more than 1 year oldCaitlin CassidyI became the person who listens to podcasts called Heal your Heartbreak. I Googled the ages of celebrities when they had their first kids The first time I experienced a broken heart, I was 18 and I felt like the world was ending.

ObituaryDavid SpanierDiplomatic journalist with a passion for pokerDavid Spanier, who has died of a stroke aged 67, combined a distinguished career as a foreign and diplomatic correspondent for the Times - and later for Independent Radio News - with a passion for gambling in general, and poker in particular. Few things gave him more pleasure than the column he wrote about poker for the Independent, and playing the game was even better than writing about it.

Guardian Africa networkUgandaAnalysisFrom headlines to hip-hop: the Ugandan TV show rapping the newsAmy Fallon for Agence France-PresseHitting back at press censorship, NewzBeat uses music to cover controversial topics and engage younger audiences Ugandan broadcasters calling themselves “rap-orters” are changing the way news is delivered, after a team of hip-hop artists teamed up to deliver a weekly TV bulletin. “Uganda’s anti-gay law is making news/Some countries have found it befitting to accuse/Uganda of treating gays as German Jews/Nothing to gain from this and more to lose,” they rapped in a recent episode of NewzBeat, broadcast on NTV, one of the country’s most-watched channels.

Maira Kalman’s ode to women holding things – in pictures Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Share via Email American author and illustrator Maira Kalman describes her project Women Holding Things as “a love song to [those] exhausted from holding everything”. Her poignant portraits, a meditation on the burdens and privileges of womanhood, feature Edith Sitwell and Gertrude Stein as well as members of Kalman’s family and anonymous faces.

Miss Great Britain, Zara Holland, has been stripped of her title after having sex on ITV2 show Love Island. Photograph: Ian West/PAMiss Great Britain, Zara Holland, has been stripped of her title after having sex on ITV2 show Love Island. Photograph: Ian West/PAITV2 This article is more than 7 years oldMiss Great Britain loses title after having sex on ITV2's Love IslandThis article is more than 7 years oldOrganisers say Zara Holland has been ‘de-crowned’ after scenes showing her getting intimate with Alex Bowen

Late-night TV roundupLate-night hosts discuss Haley’s civil war gaffe, Trump’s bizarre campaign trail stories and Aaron Rodgers’s claim Jimmy Kimmel was an Epstein associate Stephen ColbertFor his first monologue of 2024, Stephen Colbert looked ahead to more of the same this year: “Because of our inaction we’re having the same presidential election with the same two old men as last time, only older and samer.” Among the same things in 2024: the Republican primary starting with the Iowa caucus last week, where the former South Carolina governor Nikki Haley is positioned to be “the frontrunner for first loser”.

How to live nowGardensIn the past few weeks, the slugs and snails have risen in British gardens – and they are hungry. Before you reach for the shovel or pellets, experts suggest some other options If there is anything likely to send even the most mild-mannered gardener on a murderous rampage, it is waking one morning to find the lettuce has been shredded and the carefully nurtured young plants have been razed overnight.

California This article is more than 3 months oldCalifornia official who opposed #MeToo movement accused of killing fianceeThis article is more than 3 months oldMaga darling Joseph C Roberts arrested after Rachel Elizabeth Imani Buckner’s remains found on San Francisco Bay shoreline A former San Francisco Republican official who claimed to be a victim of the #MeToo movement has been accused of dismembering his fiancee. On 6 September, Alameda, California, officials arrested the 42-year-old Navy veteran Joseph C Roberts after DNA evidence from the autopsy of Rachel Elizabeth Imani Buckner, 27, allegedly pointed in his direction.

World newsEx-doctor faces life for botched fetish amputationPhilip Bondy's devotion to apotemnophilia, a sexual fetish he shared with a handful of people in the world, cost him his life. The 79-year-old New Yorker died of gangrene after he had his healthy right leg amputated below the knee. Bondy paid a former doctor, John Brown, £6,250 to cut off his leg. Apotemnophiliacs get sexual gratification from the removal of limbs. But the operation went wrong and two days later Bondy died in a San Diego hotel room.