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Fukushima This article is more than 2 years oldFukushima: Japan announces it will dump contaminated water into sea This article is more than 2 years oldEnvironmental groups and neighbours condemn plan to release more than 1m tonnes of contaminated water in two years’ time Explainer: everything you need to know about the water release Japan has announced it will release more than 1m tonnes of contaminated water from the wrecked Fukushima nuclear power plant into the sea, a decision that has angered neighbouring countries, including China, and local fishers.

PaintingHe was a musical maverick whose Trout Mask Replica still sticks out on best-of lists, but when he gave up rock to paint, his art was dismissed as doodles. Now his remarkable work is getting its due Located on a street off London’s Park Lane the Michael Werner Gallery is the epitome of moneyed art world chic: situated in a Georgian townhouse, so discreet a passerby would never know it was there.

NBA This article is more than 10 months oldMac McClung seals improbable NBA Dunk Contest win with 540-degree jamThis article is more than 10 months oldPlayer has scored only three baskets in NBA career6ft 2in guard has yet to play for his team this seasonMac McClung went some way to single-handedly restored the shine on a dunk contest that has been widely panned in recent years. McClung, the 6ft 2in Philadelphia guard on a two-way contract, defeated New Orleans’ Trey Murphy III in the finals of the dunk contest.

A young boy holds out hands affected by scabies, an infectious disease caused by tiny mites burrowing into the skin. Photograph: MSFA young boy holds out hands affected by scabies, an infectious disease caused by tiny mites burrowing into the skin. Photograph: MSFGlobal development This article is more than 2 months oldMalawi battles outbreak of scabies that health experts link to climate crisisThis article is more than 2 months oldHospitals register thousands of people with infectious skin disease, months after wave of cholera swept African country

一座接一座的高山被铲平，一个接一个的村庄被拆迁，在中国西部的甘肃省，兰州新区的建设正如火如荼地进行着。四年前，汤姆·菲利普斯第一次到访兰州新区时，空荡荡的街道让整个城区安静地有些诡异。上个月，当他再次来到这里，曾经如海市蜃楼般的美好幻境如今却逐渐变得真实起来。 ncG1vNJzZmivp6x7tbTEoKyaqpSerq96wqikaK%2Bfp7mle9KeqaKdo2TBqbGMoKyaqpSerq95yKdknKCZo7K0sQ%3D%3D

Tom Watson This article is more than 8 years oldTom Watson accuses Phil Mickelson of ‘sour grapes’ over Ryder Cup rowThis article is more than 8 years old Watson finally hits back at Mickelson’s criticism of his captaincy 65-year-old preparing for his final appearance at the OpenTom Watson has used the press conference intended to mark his farewell Open Championship appearance to hit back finally at Phil Mickelson. The 65-year-old accused Mickelson of “sour grapes” during the astonishing aftermath of the USA losing the Ryder Cup at Gleneagles last September.

TV reviewTelevisionReviewIf the Victorian pharmacists want to be authentic, they'll need to start doling out opiumWatch Victorian Pharmacy on iPlayer First we had Victorian Farm, in which domestic historian Ruth Goodman recreated a bygone age on a Shropshire farm using Victorian equipment and methods. The series proved highly popular and now, for a follow-up, Goodman has turned urban for Victorian Pharmacy (BBC 2). Last night's episode started promisingly enough, with Goodman and her new team – pharmacy professor Nick Barber, and history of medicine student Tom Quick – decking out their shop with carboys full of brightly coloured potions and stacking the shelves with a range of mysteriously named remedies.

Weekend TV: what we learnedPoldarkWhat we learned from the weekend’s TV: no-one wants Poldark's putrid throatThere was a bad case of plotline overload during the last episode of Poldark, some sous-vide action on the MasterChef final, and some hair issues on both The Big Bang Theory and Three in a Bed Watch out for putrid throatAnd so he rides for the last time. Until series two (already commissioned). The last episode of Poldark (Sunday, BBC1) and the last opportunity to understand the subplot involving angry pseudo-aristo types, copper and smelting works.

1000 artworks to see before you dieArtArtists beginning with WJeff Wall - A Sudden Gust of Wind (1993)Nature's uncanny tendency to upset the most well-prepared plans of human business are transcribed by Wall from the early 19th century of Hokusai's Japan to the late 20th-century outskirts of Vancouver. A petrified lightbox montage of over 100 photographs. (Robert Clark) Alfred Wallis - String of Boats (1928)Alfred Wallis said he created paintings to keep him company.