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Israel This article is more than 3 months oldThis article is more than 3 months oldSurrounded by evidence of heavy fighting and with air raid sirens still sounding, Road 232 is the new frontline between Israel and the enclave Israel and Hamas at war – live updates and latest news Road 232, an Israeli highway, runs parallel to the blockaded Gaza Strip. It is surrounded by flat agricultural land in every direction, and from it the higher floors of the overcrowded enclave’s high rise buildings are clearly visible, about 3 miles (5km) away.

A House Is Not a Home: the self-portraits of Brooke DiDonato – in pictures Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Share via Email Brooke DiDonato is a photographic artist based in Austin, Texas. Her latest body of work, A House is Not a Home, is a series of self-portraits that call into question the boundaries of reality and the psychological mindset.

BT Sport This article is more than 8 years oldBT Sport escapes carpeting after rugby ‘munchers’ commentThis article is more than 8 years oldBroadcaster spared punishment by media regulator after Simon Ward made remark during match between Newcastle Falcons and Newport Gwent Dragons When a BT Sport commentator referred to “rug munchers” during a live rugby union game, the programme’s executive producer thought it was a reference to players whose heads are pushed into the grass.

The seven best shows to stream this weekTelevision & radioJesse Eisenberg and Claire Danes star in a forensically acute drama about midlife, while Eva Green and Vincent Cassel light up a knotty spy thriller Pick of the week Fleishman Is in TroubleToby Fleishman (Jesse Eisenberg) is a neurotic New York doctor dealing with the physical pathologies of American capitalism. When his wife Rachel (Claire Danes) leaves him, the emotional dysfunctions of the era begin to overwhelm him.

PhilosophyObituaryGA CohenPolitical philosopher who produced a revolutionary reinterpretation of Marxist theoryProfessor GA ("Jerry") Cohen, who has died of a stroke aged 68, was arguably the leading political philosopher of the left. He was the most important interpreter of Marx in the analytic tradition and, in 1978, his Karl Marx's Theory of History: A Defence engendered a new school of Marxist thought – Analytic Marxism, or, as Cohen called it, Non-Bullshit Marxism.

Music festivals This article is more than 6 years oldSeizures, fights and panic attacks as music festival queue grinds to a haltThis article is more than 6 years oldTechnical problems blamed for seven-hour delays in admitting festival-goers to Boomtown Fair in Hampshire Festival-goers have queued for hours in hot weather to enter the Boomtown Fair music festival, with some people suffering seizures and panic attacks. Music fans started lining up for the event at the Matterley Estate in Hampshire on Thursday morning, but delays meant many were left stranded for hours with limited access to water.

Mark Rothko in 1961 Photograph: Kate Rothko/Apic/Getty ImagesMark Rothko in 1961 Photograph: Kate Rothko/Apic/Getty ImagesThe ObserverMark RothkoHe was one of America's most successful and famous artists when, in 1970, he killed himself. His tragic death sparked a bitter legal battle between his daughter, aged 19, and her father's estate. Here, in a rare and moving interview on the eve of the artist's first major show in 20 years, Kate Rothko Prizel remembers the long and bitter court case, his brutal suicide and how she still mourns the loss of her fatherKate Rothko Prizel is a strong-looking woman with a disarming smile that she switches on and off like a flashlight.

David SedarisLou Sedaris had always baffled his children. So when he died at 98, where would they begin with his funeral? Ten days before my father died, he suffered a small stroke and fell. Or perhaps he fell and then had the stroke. Either way, it surprised me when people asked what was the cause of death. I mean, he was 98! Wasn’t that cause enough? I visited him shortly after his fall, flew down from New York with Amy and Hugh.

From the Guardian archiveArchitecture21 April 1960 Pevsner, and his wife, Lola, carry out research in Norfolk for the 23rd volume of his Buildings of England guide series One night this week, in a bedroom of some hotel in Norwich, one of the great works of English scholarship will be halfway to completion. There, probably about midnight, Dr Nikolaus Pevsner will finish the text of the twenty-third volume in his Buildings of England series.