The ObserverParents and parentingAfter the birth of her second child, Amelia Hill gave up drinking. Little did she realise that her simple lifestyle choice would carry such a social stigma I’ve got a dirty little secret: I’ve stopped drinking. I’m not an alcoholic. I don’t have an addictive personality. I’m in robust good health. I enjoy drinking. But after the birth of my second child three years ago, I became a sober mother.

Boston This article is more than 10 years old'Whitey' Bulger prosecution witness died after drinking cyanide-laced coffeeThis article is more than 10 years oldStephen Rakes, who was found dead in a Boston suburb, had hoped to testify at trial but authorities say death is unrelatedA man who said he had been extorted by James "Whitey" Bulger and hoped to testify at his trial was given iced coffee laced with cyanide that killed him, authorities said Friday, and a Massachusetts man was charged with attempted murder in his death.

Illustration showing stalls in Via Pescherie Vecchie Illustration: Hennie HaworthIllustration showing stalls in Via Pescherie Vecchie Illustration: Hennie HaworthA local's guideBologna holidaysLonely Planet writer Kevin Raub offers a tour of the Italian city, taking in parks, museums dedicated to local heroes and artisinal bakeries Kevin Raub is an American travel journalist based in Bologna. He is co-author of more than 100 Lonely Planet guidebooks. FoodBologna is the capital of arguably Italy’s most important food region, Emilia-Romagna, a storied territory whose kitchens have given birth to a long list of specialities famous the world over.

RefugeesObituaryAlan Phillips obituaryHuman rights adviser who in the 1970s proposed that aid to Chile should be reallocated to support humanitarian programmesWhen General Augusto Pinochet seized power in Chile on 11 September 1973, Alan Phillips, who has died of cancer aged 76, immediately began to explore ways to support students and academics in the South American country who were being imprisoned, tortured and displaced by the regime. As the general secretary of World University Service UK (WUS), working with a network of academics in the UK and Chile, Alan presented the incoming Labour government in 1974 with a proposal: that part of the British government’s aid budget for Chile should be reallocated to a humanitarian and social development programme supporting academics from Chile in the UK.

Ben Roberts-Smith This article is more than 1 year oldBen Roberts-Smith’s ex-wife tells court she hopes he ‘survives this nightmare’This article is more than 1 year oldEmma Roberts told the court she believed the decorated soldier was withdrawing cash from joint bank accounts and burying it in the garden Get our free news app; get our morning email briefing The ex-wife of decorated war veteran Ben Roberts-Smith suspected he had been burying their money in the backyard when she uncovered a secret cache of USBs buried in a child’s lunchbox hidden under a rock, a court has heard.