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Gun crime This article is more than 9 years oldFlorida man kills six grandchildren and daughter in murder-suicideThis article is more than 9 years oldPolice were summoned to home when Donald Spirit, 51, threatened family, county sheriff says A grandfather shot and killed his daughter and six grandchildren at his Florida home on Thursday before turning his gun on himself, law enforcement officials in Florida said. The children’s ages ranged from three months to 10 years, Gilchrist County sheriff Robert Schultz said at a press conference in Bell, a small town in central Florida about 30 miles west of Gainesville.

Formula One: The new cars for the 2010 F1 Championship Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Share via Email 12 February 2010: A preview of the forthcoming Formula One season, with images from all the launches (as they happen) and a technical guide by Maurice Hamilton Tue 9 Feb 2010 05.30 EST First published on Tue 9 Feb 2010 05.30 EST Mercedes Car: MGP W01 Technical details: Higher, narrower nose similar to 2009 Red Bull.

Leading questionsAustralian lifestylePerhaps you should let go of making the ‘right’ decision, writes advice columnist Eleanor Gordon-Smith – all your options are worth celebrating Get our weekend culture and lifestyle email As a single almost 36-year-old woman with a successful career, I feel like the pandemic has robbed me of two prime years of my dating life and has fast-tracked me to the red region of my biological clock. The pressure I feel to do something about this deadline is massive, but for the first time in my life, I have no idea how to make up my mind.

History booksReviewThis is an evocative biography of Britain’s greatest civil engineer, who can take the credit for much of the industrial revolution’s architectureTogether with victorious generals and admirals, self-made engineers were the heroes of Victorian Britain, exemplary figures to generations of schoolchildren, industrial apprentices and autodidacts. Writers such as Samuel Smiles established the public reputation of these men via popular biographies, in which incidents in childhood often prefigured their later triumphs.

Book of the dayFictionReviewFour women close to the Austrian painter are illuminated in this impressive debut, set against the tumult of Secession Vienna and its pandemic Egon Schiele’s images of women are challenging and varied. Some are elusive, quaint or decorative, but many are sexual, powerful, provocative. They raise unsettling questions of voyeurism and exploitation. Who were these women and what role did they play in Schiele’s life and his art?

DeEtta Williams. Photograph: Courtesy of DeEtta WilliamsDeEtta Williams. Photograph: Courtesy of DeEtta WilliamsUS prisons This article is more than 7 years old'Who could I tell?': ex-inmate says guard sexually assaulted her daily for monthsThis article is more than 7 years oldIn an exclusive interview about her lawsuit, DeEtta Williams says officials know about pattern of assault at the California prison and ‘just don’t bother’ to stop it DeEtta Williams is frightened every day.

Observer book of the weekAutobiography and memoirReviewThe first and presumably last Briton ever to lead European foreign policy gives us a glimpse of an approach – more collaboration, less alpha male showboating – now sadly lost In February 2014, Catherine Ashton flew to Kyiv to hold talks with Ukraine’s embattled president, Viktor Yanukovych. For four years, she had been the European Union’s top envoy. As its first ever high representative for foreign affairs and security, Ashton was used to dealing with crises.

BrazilFilm about Carlos Marighella, released in Berlin in 2019, only arrived in Brazil last month after government cancellations The CIA considered him Che Guevara’s successor when it came to igniting new guerrilla movements in Latin America. Brazil’s military dictatorship, whose security agents ambushed and killed him in São Paulo in 1969, called him public enemy No 1. Now, more than five decades after his slaying, the communist revolutionary and poet Carlos Marighella has been reborn as a symbol of political resistance to Jair Bolsonaro’s far-right administration thanks to a new film about his life.

The ObserverV&AInterviewMeet Gus Casely-Hayford, the man on a mission to drag museums into the 21st centuryKadish Morris The director of the forthcoming V&A East in London wants to transform the visitor experience with digital technology, to address colonialism – and to bring in young people Gus Casely-Hayford, the V&A East’s first director, discovered art in the most tender of ways. As a young boy on a snowy day, lying beside a radiator, he watched his older brother Joseph as he drew.