US news This article is more than 1 year old‘I won’t survive’: queer California man facing deportation after 44 years in USThis article is more than 1 year oldSalesh Prasad could be sent to Fiji, where he fears anti-LGBTQ+ violence, with California law enforcement aiding his detention A 50-year-old California man who was born in Fiji but has lived in the US since he was six years old is facing deportation to a country where he has no family and is at risk of violence and abuse as a queer person.

The ObserverPolitics booksReviewThis deftly constructed account of the IRA’s 1984 attempt to kill the prime minister leaves us with one insistent question: what would have happened if they had succeeded? At 2.54am on 12 October 1984, a bomb, which had been concealed in room 629 of the Grand hotel in Brighton several weeks earlier, detonated with such force that it toppled one of the hotel’s five-ton Victorian chimney stacks. “Like a monstrous guillotine, it sliced through concrete, steel and wood, all the way to the ground floor,” writes Rory Carroll in Killing Thatcher, his meticulously rendered account of the IRA’s most audacious terrorist operation.

TheatreReviewThe Print Room, LondonI was wrong about Brian Friel's play. Seeing it for the first time at the Almeida in 1994, I took it to be an arid replay of Friel's Faith Healer: again two men and a woman engage in monologues on the curative process. But although it is a play that asks whether seeing is to be equated with understanding, it also becomes, in Abigail Graham's incisive production, a play about a shared, profoundly Irish sense of exile.

Health & wellbeing This article is more than 1 year oldThis article is more than 1 year oldLondon’s ‘Screamatorium’ is one way to self-soothe as office tension (and therapy costs) mount Little evidence screaming helps mental health, say psychologists On Zoom, no one can hear you scream. But since our return to the office, those quiet corners and private meeting rooms might be proving in high demand. Whether it’s for personal or professional, or the inextricable intersection of the two, nearly everyone who passes time in an office will have at least once had a meltdown there.

World newsReturn of the great white killerRecent savage attacks have convinced experts that the shark is deadlier than before ... and now it's heading our wayThere was no warning, no trace of the menacing score that accompanied the mythic monster of Jaws. Teenager Nick Peterson could surely not have known what struck him as he stretched on his surfboard last week. The shark's first bite severed his torso, onlookers howled as the blue-green sea off Adelaide turned red with his blood.