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Roger Waters This article is more than 3 months oldRoger Waters accused of repeated antisemitism in new documentary This article is more than 3 months oldInvestigation interviews those who claim to have heard several derogatory references to Jews Pink Floyd’s co-founder, Roger Waters, has been accused of repeated antisemitism, with claims he referred to “Jew food” and made up a song about his agent that called him a “fucking Jew”.

GenderThin, thinner, thinnestNo, this isn't really how Calista Flockhart looks. But how long before it is? And how long, Anita Chaudhuri asks, before somebody says enough?It hardly seems possible but Calista Flockhart, aka Ally McBeal, appears to have lost weight. The actress, whose body now looks to be constructed out of flesh-covered pipe-cleaners, has just had her holiday snaps published in the tabloids accompanied by headlines that purport to be concerned about her size.

Life and styleDemi Skipper would like a new house, but she’s not buying one. Instead she’s planning a daring strategy of trades – and millions are following her journey While many of us were still finding novelty in group Zoom calls last May, Demi Skipper decided she was going to get a house. But not using money. Instead, she was going to trade items. Now the owner of one of only a few Chipotle celebrity cards in the world, and hoping to reach a house by the end of summer, the 29-year-old’s journey started where many voyages do: in a YouTube hole.

Vietnam: The Real War – in pictures Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Share via Email From Malcolm Browne’s photograph of the burning monk to Nick Ut’s picture of a nine-year-old girl running from a napalm attack, the Associated Press’s Saigon bureau captured the realities and tragedies of the Vietnam war. AP won six Pulitzer prizes for its war coverage, four for photography.

The ObserverSerbia This article is more than 11 years oldWhy Serbia, my country, still cannot condemn racism – on or off the pitchThis article is more than 11 years oldThe scenes at the match against England last week shocked the rest of the football world. But the reaction in Serbia lays bare the contradictions at the nation's very heartTuesday's football match in Krusevac should have been a regular game. Serbians were more preoccupied with another match, in the Macedonian capital Skopje, where Serbia needed to win to stay on track for World Cup qualification.

TelevisionAs the football hardman returns to his country roots, he listens to birdsong and shows both palpable grief and an obsession with hedgehogs. How endearing Vinnie Jones has spent his adult life being defined by two images. The first is a photograph taken on the pitch during his days as a professional footballer where, scowling with unconcealed menace, he reaches behind him and grabs Paul Gascoigne’s testicles as hard as he can.

Book of the dayFictionReviewThe young eponymous heroine in this warm-hearted debut embodies the complexity of Iran in the runup to the 1979 revolution Unwanted by her father and so abandoned by her mother, in 1953 a baby girl is found under a mulberry tree in wealthy north Tehran. Carrying her home to the impoverished tenements of the southern city, Behrouz – an army driver who, as a motherless boy, pretended to be a mother himself – names her Aria.

The ObserverUK newsObituaryDeath of a pop pioneerAdam Faith 1940-2003The death of Adam Faith, pop star, actor and sometime financial consultant, was greeted last night with shock and sorrow by fellow entertainers and by fans who have followed his career since the single 'What Do You Want' topped the charts. The 62-year-old, born Terence Nelhams (later Nelham- Wright), suffered a heart attack early yesterday morning at a hotel in Stoke-on-Trent, Staffordshire, where he was staying while starring at a nearby theatre.

SpaceObituaryFrank Borman obituaryAstronaut who led the Apollo 8 mission in 1968, and the first person to spot an ‘Earthrise’On Christmas Eve 1968, as commander of Apollo 8 – the first manned lunar orbital mission – Frank Borman, who has died aged 95, came out with words that, alongside Neil Armstrong’s “giant leap for mankind”, from Apollo 11 in 1969, and Jack Swigert and Jim Lovell’s “OK, Houston, we’ve had a problem”, from Apollo 13 in 1970, defined an era.