Restaurant owner José Luis Bracamontes, holding a newspaper spread about Pep Guardiola’s stay in Mexico with Dorados de Sinaloa in 2006. Photograph: Duncan TuckerRestaurant owner José Luis Bracamontes, holding a newspaper spread about Pep Guardiola’s stay in Mexico with Dorados de Sinaloa in 2006. Photograph: Duncan TuckerSportblogPep GuardiolaManchester City’s manager made only 10 appearances for Dorados de Sinaloa in 2006 but his coaching education took a great leap forward thereThe city of Culiacán in north-west Mexico, best known as the bastion of the notorious Sinaloa cartel fronted by the billionaire drug kingpin Joaquín “El Chapo” Guzmán, was an unlikely place for Manchester City’s new manager, Pep Guardiola, to begin the process that would culminate in him becoming the world’s most sought-after coach.

Other livesReligious studies and theologyObituaryJames Dunn obituaryMy husband, James Dunn, who has died aged 80, was emeritus Lightfoot professor of divinity at Durham University. Internationally known as a New Testament scholar and writer, Jimmy was an active church member and above all a family man. He could teach, supervise and write with authority on almost every aspect of the New Testament, and this range and versatility made him one of the best known and most influential British New Testament scholars of his generation.

Pierre Cardin's Bubble Palace near Cannes – in pictures Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Share via Email Straight lines were anathema to architect Antti Lovag, and you will not find a single one in this complex of domes overlooking the Med being sold by the fashion designer Jill Papworth Main image: For sale: Pierre Cardin’s Palais Bulles on the French Riviera at Théoule-sur-Mer near Cannes.

Comics and graphic novels This article is more than 12 years oldSmurfs accused of antisemitism and racismThis article is more than 12 years oldFans angry over new book alleging that Peyo's much-loved children's tale contains overtones of both Stalinism and nazismA little blue army of fans has mobilised to defend the Smurfs against accusations of antisemitism, racism and communism. Antoine Buéno, a lecturer at Sciences Po university in Paris, makes the claims in his new book Le Petit Livre Bleu: Analyse critique et politique de la société des Schtroumpfs, in which he points out that the Smurfs live in a world where private initiative is rarely rewarded, where meals are all taken together in a communal room, where there is one leader and where the Smurfs rarely leave their small country.

Reconciliation, a sculpture by Josefina de Vasconcellos in the ruins of Coventry Cathedral. Photograph: AlamyReconciliation, a sculpture by Josefina de Vasconcellos in the ruins of Coventry Cathedral. Photograph: AlamyThe ObserverFictionReviewSarah Moss, author of Signs for Lost Children, balances a family swept into confusion with a city’s fraught historyThe need for narrative has been much discussed in recent weeks. The lack of one was what led our nation to the brink; only a brave new story can haul us back.