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MoviesObituaryRobert Rietti obituaryActor best known for his voice, who dubbed in a number of James Bond films As a film and television actor, Robert Rietti, who has died aged 92, was best known for his voice. Although he made occasional on-screen appearances, as in John Schlesinger’s Sunday Bloody Sunday (1971) and the ITV series The Avengers, his regular work came from dubbing the dialogue of actors whose command of English was limited or who could not make the final stages of recording a soundtrack.

Drama filmsIn Charles Burnett’s ever-relevant cop movie, unfortunately buried by Harvey Weinstein, a corrupt and abusive system is put on display As a Black man living in America, these past few weeks haven’t been good. The African-American community has once again had to endure images of Black men and women being terrorized and/or tragically killed by the police. There’s Daunte Wright getting gunned down during a traffic stop in Minnesota, Caron Nazario – an army lieutenant – being threatened and pepper-sprayed at another traffic stop in Virginia, and 16-year-old Ma’Khia Bryant killed by police during an altercation with other women in Ohio.

SportblogPhiladelphia EaglesTwo months ago, the defending NFC champions were the toast of football with the inside track on a repeat Super Bowl appearance. Then came the wildest in-season unravelling in NFL history It’s long been said the NFL stands for Not For Long. Change comes quickly in a copycat league where winning strategies are examined, analyzed and imitated and constant innovation is central to continued success. But even by that standard, it’s difficult to recall a more rapid fall from grace than what’s gone down with the Philadelphia Eagles over the past two months.

Utah This article is more than 11 years oldUS father Josh Powell blows himself up with two young childrenThis article is more than 11 years oldAs detectives continue hunt for Powell's missing wife, lawyer reveals children had told grandparents 'mom was in the trunk'Days after a judge ruled against him in a child custody hearing, a father and his two young sons were killed on Sunday when police said he appeared to intentionally blow up a house with all three inside – a tragic ending to a bizarre case that began more than two years ago when his wife Susan went mysteriously missing in Utah.

US policing This article is more than 8 years old'She was only a baby': last charge dropped in police raid that killed sleeping Detroit childThis article is more than 8 years oldAiyana Stanley-Jones was 7 years old when she was killed by a single bullet to the head. As officer Joseph Weekley walks free, another community is demanding answers about the increasing militarisation of law enforcement Final charges against Joseph Weekley, a police officer who shot dead a 7-year-old girl, Aiyana Stanley-Jones, in Detroit in May 2010, were dismissed on Friday, leaving a family bereft and raising serious concern among national groups over an increasingly militarized police force.

The faddy eaterSpiritsThe collagen-infused spirit won backing in the Dragons’ Den, but trying to direct protein towards the skin with a drink is like trying to divert the Nile with a spoon Part of my job involves making up new words. The world is changing rapidly, so it is helpful to find new ways to describe it. But if I have learned one thing, it is that a made-up word only works if you are using it to describe something that already exists but for which words have, historically, failed.

Sick citiesCitiesIn this abridged extract from his new book Dirty Old London, Lee Jackson investigates a much-overlooked aspect of the city’s notorious 19th-century filth problem: the human corpse As well as sewerage, another “waste removal” problem plagued London in the 19th century: the disposal of the dead. There was little dispute about the means. Burial was the norm; cremation a peculiar foreign custom. The difficulty lay in finding room for an ever-increasing number of corpses.

IndonesiaA little past midnight, sitting at the bar of a stylish Jakarta establishment, all around was giddy, shaking, unfiltered lust. Author Laksmi Pamuntjak discovers the swinging scene among Indonesia’s middle class There is a peculiar thrill to hearing your city described in terms less than conventional, more so when the talk is salacious, bordering on risqué. For all the respect you wish accorded to the weight of its history, the joy of its music, the singularity of its people and character – you also want it to speak for itself, ie to reveal itself with all its grey zones, its convolutions, the breadth of its unadvertised parts.

Observer New Review Q&AFashionInterviewJean Paul Gaultier: ‘I love the eccentricity and the freedom of England’Tim LewisThe French fashion designer on Eurotrash, proposing to Madonna, and the new cabaret show about his wild life Conical bras, striped sailor tops and gender-neutral designs… Jean Paul Gaultier has been in fashion for more than 50 years. He has dressed Madonna, Björk and Lady Gaga, and was elevated to cult status in the 1990s as the co-presenter of Channel 4’s Eurotrash, with Antoine de Caunes.