Three thingsAustralian lifestyle‘365 days without soft drink’: TikTok star Rohit Roy on the items that helped himIt’s been just over a year since Roy captured Australia’s imagination with his quest to quit soft drink – here he shares the objects that helped along the way Rohit Roy is not the typical TikTok star. He doesn’t dance, or sing, or make memes about why millennials need to stop wearing skinny jeans. The 42-year-old financial planning assistant from Melbourne has found online fame for one thing: quitting soft drinks.

Rod Stewart This article is more than 1 month oldAtlantic crossing: Rod Stewart to sell up LA mansion and move back to UKThis article is more than 1 month oldSinger lists nine-bedroom, 12-bathroom, 28,000 sq ft property for $80m. It comes with a full-size football pitch, but not his legendary train set Rod Stewart has put his Los Angeles mansion on the market for $80m, as he prepares to spend more time living at his UK residence.

Crime fictionIn response to a list of the 100 best crime novels that had only 28 female authors, Ann Cleeves, Val McDermid and Dreda Say Mitchell and other leading writers nominate some alternatives When the Sunday Times picked its 100 favourite crime and spy novels published since 1945 last weekend, only 28 were by women. “Seeing the chronic conscious and unconscious bias against work by women is enraging,” wrote Marian Keyes on Twitter.

Tasting notesFoodHow a child's food preferences begin in the wombTests have shown that what a woman eats during her pregnancy is easily detectable in her amniotic fluid, and the foetus develops a taste for familiar flavoursIt may be a survival mechanism that's come back to bite us on the bum, but human beings are born to love sweets. We love them even when we're in the womb. Some 15 to 16 weeks after conception, foetuses will show their sugar appreciation by swallowing more amniotic fluid when it's sweet, and less when bitter (pdf).

TheatreObituaryMick Lally obituaryCo-founder of the Druid theatre in Galway, he achieved soap fame as Miley ByrneThe Irish actor Mick Lally, who has died aged 64, succeeded in straddling the worlds of stage, television and film. In particular, he was a vital presence in the renaissance of Irish drama in the 1970s and 80s, while making himself a household name in Radio Telefís Éireann's soap operas Bracken and Glenroe. The eldest of seven children on a 30-acre hill farm in Tourmakeady, County Mayo, in the Gaelic-speaking west of Ireland, Lally, through the generosity of a grandfather, attended St Mary's College in Galway and University College Galway, where he read Irish and history.