Soccer This article is more than 9 years oldNew autopsy claims Albert Ebossé was stabbed and beaten to death in AlgeriaThis article is more than 9 years old Official report said Cameroonian hit by object thrown from stands Pathologist believes JS Kabylie striker killed by ‘brutal aggression’A new autopsy has claimed that the Cameroonian footballer Albert Ebossé was stabbed and brutally beaten to death in the changing rooms after a match in Algeria and not an object thrown by rioting fans as had been initially claimed.

Sinéad O’Connor performing in the Netherlands in 1990. Photograph: Michel Linssen/RedfernsNeil Jordan, Róisín Murphy, MC Lyte, Anne Enright and more share their memories of a uniquely talented, uncompromising artist, mother and ‘Celtic warrior’ by Ben Beaumont-Thomas, Sian Cain and Laura Snapes‘She was very beautiful and very wild’Anne Enright, author Sinéad O’Connor was a daughter, a mother and a sister, she made a family that brought many people into its extended web of care, one that included the fathers of her four adored children.

FamilyLosing your parents is never easy, however old you are, says Eleni Kyriacou, who was 39 but still felt like an orphan. And other people's embarrassment around death and bereavement only adds to the grief you feelOn a bitterly cold April morning in 1998, my father died of a heart attack. The shock of his death was like a punch to the stomach. It was the first bereavement I'd experienced up close.

Van Morrison performing in New York, late 1960s Photograph: Michael Ochs Archives/Getty ImagesVan Morrison performing in New York, late 1960s Photograph: Michael Ochs Archives/Getty Images10 of the bestVan MorrisonFrom radio-friendly R&B via religious fervor to spiritual reawakening, these tracks map the Northern Irish songwriter’s soul-searching career 1. TB SheetsDuring Van Morrison’s spell in Them, the brutally, brilliantly reductive Belfast band he fronted between 1964 and 1966, there had been glimmers of an artistic sensibility at odds with the turbo-boosted dockside R&B of songs like Gloria and Baby Please Don’t Go.

The ObserverJournalism booksReviewSpanning just a few dramatic days, the foreign reporter’s riveting account of the battle for Voznesensk highlights the weaknesses of Putin’s invasion and the courage of Ukrainians When Russian troops approached the small farming town of Voznesensk, they were not expecting a battle. A week earlier, Vladimir Putin’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine had begun. An armoured column trundled insouciantly across a landscape of southern fields and villages. The goal was to capture a crossing point between two rivers.