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The grueling profession has long kept silent about mental distress. After losing a friend and quietly grappling with illness, Carrie Cunningham found a new way to save lives by Christina FrangouCarrie Cunningham puffed out her cheeks and exhaled. She looked out at the audience filled with 2,000 of her peers, surgeons who were attending the annual meeting of the Association of Academic Surgery, a prestigious gathering of specialists from universities across the United States and Canada.

R&BShe has sold 23m records, toured with Britney Spears, and been for dinner at the White House – so why isn’t she a household name? The Atlantan singer-songwriter reveals why she’s not as big as Rihanna – yet One of the best lyrics of 2015 landed this week on Jackie (BMF), the opening track of Ciara’s sixth album, Jackie. “Man, I just delivered a 9lb 10oz baby,” the R&B star sings.

Clint Eastwood: ‘When I grew up, those things weren’t called racist.’ Photograph: Alberto E Rodriguez/Getty ImagesClint Eastwood: ‘When I grew up, those things weren’t called racist.’ Photograph: Alberto E Rodriguez/Getty ImagesClint Eastwood This article is more than 7 years oldClint Eastwood defends Trump's 'racist' remarks: 'Just get over it'This article is more than 7 years oldThe Hollywood tough guy has derided ‘a pussy generation’ obsessed with political correctness in an expletive-riddled Esquire interview Another Republican luminary has gone public with strong feelings about Donald Trump.

Guardian Sport NetworkSportPeacock threw his first punch to defend himself against a school bully. Now he is a muay thai champion with his own gym By Jonathan Drennan for the Guardian Sport Network Jake Peacock is the reigning Canadian welterweight and North American super welterweight muay thai champion. He has won eight of his nine professional fights and is renowned for his ability to knock out opponents clinically with accurate elbows and kicks.

How we madeIndie‘The title means someone who’s naked. It’s not about someone wearing pink. So the film had nothing to do with what the song was about. It made it trite’ Richard Butler, singer, songwriterThe Psychedelic Furs were very chaotic when we started. Often we were very drunk, and the whole scene was a bit chaotic. You could get on stage and make whatever noise you wanted. When we played the Roxy, in London, we had a vacuum cleaner in the lineup, which sounded awful, but people seemed to like us and kept coming back.

EuropeSerbian police detain 38 people protesting over ‘unfair’ electionOpposition group Serbia Against Violence staged protests over elections deemed irregular by international rights watchdogs Serbian police have detained at least 38 people who took part in a protest over an election earlier this month that international monitors said was unfair. Opposition group Serbia Against Violence has been staging protests since the 17 December elections, saying there was election fraud, particularly in the capital, Belgrade.

BooksObituaryStephen MarloweUS sci-fi and crime writer and early star of Gold Medal booksAlthough best-known for his series of pacey novels featuring the private eye Chester Drum, Stephen Marlowe, who has died after a long illness aged 79, was a prolific author who produced more than 60 novels under a variety of names, including his own. Marlowe was born Milton Lesser in Brooklyn, New York. He sold his first science-fiction novel, Somewhere I'll Find You, while studying philosophy at the College of William & Mary in Williamsburg, Virginia.

Taylor SwiftInterviewTaylor Swift: ‘Sexy? Not on my radar'Hermione HobyShe’s gone from ringletted country artist to feminist role model and the world’s most charming pop star. As she returns with her catchiest material yet, she talks awards-ceremony etiquette, autobiographical lyrics and why she puts nice before naughty In Manhattan’s chi-chi Sant Ambroeus restaurant, the pair of smartly dressed women at the next table are making not-so-surreptitious “eek” faces at each other, having clocked that their neighbour for lunch is Taylor Swift.

ScienceThe beauty products from the skin of executed Chinese prisoners· Cosmetics firm targets UK market · Lack of regulation puts users at riskA Chinese cosmetics company is using skin harvested from the corpses of executed convicts to develop beauty products for sale in Europe, an investigation by the Guardian has discovered. Agents for the firm have told would-be customers it is developing collagen for lip and wrinkle treatments from skin taken from prisoners after they have been shot.