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Italy This article is more than 6 months oldItalian man cleared of assault because grope only lasted ‘between five and 10 seconds’This article is more than 6 months oldJudge trying case of caretaker accused of sexually assaulting teenage student rules grope too fleeting to be a crime An Italian judge has provoked outrage after clearing a school caretaker of sexually assaulting a teenage girl because the grope lasted only “a handful of seconds”.

US televisionThe late actor has left behind a career of distinguished and often devastating roles, headed up by his no-nonsense lieutenant in the HBO drama On HBO’s crime-and-punishment epic The Wire, the moral arc of the universe does not bend toward justice. In the dramatized yet scrupulously realistic Baltimore mapped by creator David Simon, institutions – policing, education, politics – preserve their entrenched structures of power at the cost of the individual, and it happens over and over.

Meera Sodha’s tofu and mushroom bulgogi. Photograph: Louise Hagger/The Guardian. Food styling: Emily Kydd. Prop styling: Jennifer Kay. Food styling assistant: Sophie Denmead.Meera Sodha’s tofu and mushroom bulgogi. Photograph: Louise Hagger/The Guardian. Food styling: Emily Kydd. Prop styling: Jennifer Kay. Food styling assistant: Sophie Denmead.The new veganVegan food and drinkAn updated Korean classic, with chunks of mushroom and firm tofu smothered in a fiery marinade of gochujang, soy and pear

TV reviewTelevisionReviewThis Channel 4 show about men with genitals up to seven inches around is an often eye-watering watch with plenty of point-and-laugh moments – until it turns thoughtful How big is your penis? Average? Largeish? Big? Ah – but is it documentary big? The entry point – and just pardon the puns from hereon out – for qualifying for shows like My Massive Cock (the latest addition to Channel 4’s Truth and Dare season celebrating the channel’s 40th anniversary, though they style it My Massive ****) seems to be 8in [20.

Comics and graphic novels This article is more than 3 years oldNew Batman will be black, DC Comics announcesThis article is more than 3 years oldCharacter named Tim Fox will take up the cowl in new comic series written by 12 Years a Slave screenwriter John Ridley The next hero to don Batman’s cowl will be a black man, named Tim Fox, DC Comics has revealed. The identity of the new Batman, estranged son of Bruce Wayne’s business manager Lucius Fox, was announced by the comics publisher on Thursday.

SportblogChampions LeagueUnited suffer European exit to a Bayern side who are a good version of whatever it is the hosts are trying to piece together As the seconds ticked down at the end of a Champions League season‑ender that felt like a gentle, even quite tender, act of sporting euthanasia, the only noise inside Old Trafford was the sound of the Bayern Munich fans singing an impressively sustained version of Football’s Coming Home.

OpinionCulture This article is more than 8 years old10 songs to play to children to teach them about lifeThis article is more than 8 years oldLaura BartonBritish schoolchildren are to have Haydn, the Beatles’ Sgt Pepper album, and Santana foisted on them in the classroom. What popular music do you think should play a role in young people’s education? 1. Wonderful World – Sam CookeAs charming as Cooke’s tribute to the powers and simple pleasures of love may be, this song more importantly provides an introduction to how much there is to learn in this life: history, biology, French, geography, trigonometry … Even the lovestruck Cooke concedes that knowledge is power: “Maybe by being an A student, baby, I can win your love for me,” he sings.

Carol Channing – a life in pictures Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Share via Email She faced off against a gun-toting Clint Eastwood, charmed Broadway in Hello, Dolly! and performed with the Muppets. A look back at the comedy legend’s career on stage and screen Carol Channing: the sparky star with a husky comic drawl Carol Channing dies aged 97 Main image: Carol Channing in Hello, Dolly!

Children's booksChildren's booksConfess by Colleen Hoover – review ‘By the end my stomach was clenched as I hoped fate really existed despite how cheesy fiction makes it out to be’ The title Confess says it all. Compact with secrets and lies, Colleen Hoover is both discrete and reveals the truth. Owen is an artist who gains inspiration from anonymous confessions (which happen to be real life confessions). I think this concept is amazing.