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The most colourful cities in the world – in pictures Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Share via Email From the arts hub of Valparaiso to the ‘blue city’ of Jodhpur, we take a look at the neighbourhoods and cityscapes that have been transformed by colourful paint • Share your own photos on Twitter and Instagram using #guardiancolourfulcities Francesca Perry

FranceZahia Dehar is a lingerie designer, a protege of Karl Lagerfeld. But she's also at the centre of a scandal involving two of France's top footballers and allegations of underage prostitutionDespite her best efforts, Zahia Dehar is still best known in France as a footballer's birthday present. The 20-year-old surprise new muse and protege of the fashion designer Karl Lagerfeld was not long ago a teenage, underaged prostitute who met clients in VIP bars around Paris's Champs-Elysées while her mother apparently thought she was at sleepovers with schoolfriends, and was paid for sex by one of France's most famous football stars.

OpinionGermany This article is more than 9 years old1914: the Great War has become a nightly pornography of violenceThis article is more than 9 years oldSimon JenkinsThe centenary has been seized as a military propaganda opportunity. So-called lessons learned have been ignored or forgotten Britain’s commemoration of the Great War has lost all sense of proportion. It has become a media theme park, an indigestible cross between Downton Abbey and a horror movie.

World newsEight years for US soldier who abused prisonersA US soldier at the centre of the Abu Ghraib prisoner abuse scandal was yesterday sentenced to eight years for sexually and physically abusing detainees. Staff Sergeant Ivan "Chip" Frederick, 38, who admitted carrying out a mock electrocution of a detainee, was also given a reduction in rank, forfeiture of pay and a dishonourable discharge. Frederick, an army reservist from Buckingham, Virginia, pleaded guilty at the court martial on Wednesday to eight counts of abusing and humiliating Iraqi detainees.

The danger of a quick slide into all-out nuclear war between Russia and the US is less, but in other ways the risk we face is more alarming, says author and former Moscow correspondent Jonathan Steele Published: 4:00 PM ncG1vNJzZmivp6x7tbTEoKyaqpSerq96wqikaKiipLOquMRooaimkam1orrSrZyepJU%3D

Literary legend Joan Didion - a stylish life in pictures Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Share via Email Didion, who has died aged 87, emerged as part of the ‘New Journalism’ generation of writers in the 1960s and won acclaim for her essays, plays and novels. Her personal style also made her an influential figure in the world of fashion

A still from Hurricane Season. Photograph: Camila Jurado/NetflixA still from Hurricane Season. Photograph: Camila Jurado/NetflixMovies This article is more than 2 months oldNetflix’s movie Hurricane Season stirs debate over violent depiction of MexicoThis article is more than 2 months oldBased on the prize-winning book by Fernanda Melchor, film depicts brutality stemming from ‘war on drugs’ that began in 2006 A group of children find a body in the river: the village witch, her throat slit, writhing with snakes.

Rufus SewellInterviewRufus Sewell: almost famousLiese SpencerRufus Sewell was a pin-up in the 1990s, then his career stalled. He tells us about moving to LA, giving up drinking and why he can't wait to lose his looksThere was a moment in the mid-1990s when Rufus Sewell's international stardom was assured. Before his 30th birthday, he had starred in two hugely successful TV adaptations, of Middlemarch and Cold Comfort Farm, and taken a lead role in the original production of Tom Stoppard's Arcadia, alongside Felicity Kendal and Bill Nighy.

FamilyInterviewThe Auschwitz survivor who returned to rescue her brother’s paintingsOren GruenbaumJust before Eva Schloss was separated from her brother on arrival at Auschwitz, he told her of the cache of his art, painted in secret, he had hidden in an attic It was to be Eva’s last conversation with her brother, Heinz. They were human cargo on the railway cattle wagon transporting their parents and a hundred other people, all Jews and Gypsies, to Auschwitz-Birkenau in May 1944.