Higher educationManchester student arrested in IraqA Manchester University student has been arrested in northern Iraq while allegedly attempting to join a radical Islamic guerilla group believed to be linked with al-Qaida. Urslaan Khan, 21, from Yarm, near Middlesbrough, was discovered last month traveling with a British passport through the mountains of northern Iraq. He was detained by American military officials who questioned him about his movements in Iraq. Mr Khan is thought to be the first Briton to be arrested in Iraq for allegedly being linked to groups in combat with the coalition troops.

Ask PhilippaRelationshipsAccepting your grief, no matter how long ago it happened, will make it easier to live withThe dilemma I am 50 years old, live a privileged life with my husband and our two children and really don’t want for much. My mother died very suddenly when I was 25 – she was 61. Her death was from a heart attack. We had no clue that she was gravely ill. My father died of bowel cancer in 2020, aged 81.

‘You can’t go incognito on a Pendleton Somerby.’ Photograph: PR/Guardian‘You can’t go incognito on a Pendleton Somerby.’ Photograph: PR/GuardianCyclingReview‘It’s cheap and poorly made: why has Victoria Pendleton put her name to this donkey?’It’s one of the friendlier heckles I’ve received while cycling in central Manchester. “Get back to the Netherlands, you!” yelled a bloke on Deansgate. It was 5pm on a Saturday, shortly after the full-time whistle had blown at one or other of the city’s football grounds.

BooksReviewOn stage this story has won Tony and Olivier awards. But as a book set in the UK, it suffers from the extra padding – and it feels more heavy-handed, too When it comes to sexual assault and the law, a lot has happened since Suzie Miller debuted her one-woman “rape play” (her words). Prima Facie, about a sexual assault defence-barrister-turned-complainant who tries to get justice for her own rape, opened at Sydney’s Griffin Theatre Company in 2019.

How to believeHolocaust This article is more than 9 years oldWhat was God's role in Auschwitz? A question often prohibited, but always askedThis article is more than 9 years oldAndrew BrownOtto Dov Kulka's writing considers how religious belief can exist in a world with no future. His answer comes in the form of a dreamOne part of the immense distance that separates Gentiles from the Jewish experience of Auschwitz is the role of God there.