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Soccer This article is more than 10 years oldFormer Birmingham striker Christian 'Chucho' Benítez dies at 27This article is more than 10 years old Striker died after suffering a cardiorespiratory arrest Benítez had recently moved to Qatari club Al JaishThe Ecuador striker Christian Benítez died on Monday morning after suffering a cardiorespiratory arrest, less than a month after signing for Qatari club Al Jaish. Benítez was admitted to hospital with severe stomach pain hours after making his debut against Qatar Sports Club in the Sheikh Jassem Cup but died shortly afterwards.

MarriageAccording to Lori Gottlieb, all any woman wants is to be married. It's time all those singletons learned to settle for second bestLori Gottlieb is a 43-year-old single parent who desperately wants to be married. And she's not ashamed to say so. She first aired her existential angst in an inflammatory 2007 essay for the Atlantic magazine called Marry Him! The Case For Settling For Mr Good Enough, in which she wrote, "

François Pinault will house his extensive art collection in the Bourse de Commerce, Paris. Photograph: AFP/GettyFrançois Pinault will house his extensive art collection in the Bourse de Commerce, Paris. Photograph: AFP/GettyParis This article is more than 7 years oldNew Paris museum to house billionaire's modern art collectionThis article is more than 7 years oldFrançois Pinault achieves long-held ambition to display his €1.2bn treasure trove in French capital One of the world’s biggest private art collections is to be housed in a new Paris museum close to the Louvre.

Selena GomezIn Harmony Korine's lurid new film, she plays a bikini-clad party girl. What happened to the child star who once dated Justin Bieber?The most beautiful shot in Harmony Korine's new film is the only uninterrupted travelling shot in a movie otherwise frenetic in its cutting. It is a restaurant robbery shot from the getaway car after it drops off two girl-robbers at the backdoor, then glides around the building capturing the chaotic but, to us, completely silent hold-up of the diners through two distancing layers of glass, before picking them up again at the front door and speeding off into the sultry night.

US newsObituarySuzanne PleshetteAmerican actor whose roles ranged from the melodramatic to the light-heartedThere are two distinct memories of Suzanne Pleshette, who has died from lung cancer aged 70: the sensual, dark-haired beauty of 1960s movie melodramas, and the more mature and light-hearted but still sexy wife in The Bob Newhart Show (1972-78) on television. In the former part of her career, Pleshette, elegantly tailored, would often play rich, young and independent girls.

FictionReviewSamantha Harvey’s fourth novel is a richly immersive detective story set in a 15th-century Somerset village Samantha Harvey’s first novel, The Wilderness, about an old man’s descent into Alzheimer’s, gained nominations for most of the major prizes of 2009 and won the Betty Trask award. Harvey specialises in the unravelling both of mental states and narratives, so it’s appropriate perhaps that her fourth, The Western Wind, is a medieval detective story.

Crime This article is more than 3 years oldUncle jailed over murder of teenager Louise SmithThis article is more than 3 years oldShane Mays jailed for minimum of 25 years for woodland killing in Hampshire A 30-year-old man who lured a vulnerable teenager to woodland where he murdered her and defiled her body has been jailed for a minimum of 25 years. Shane Mays walked with Louise Smith, 16, to a secluded spot in Hampshire before repeatedly punching her in the face, causing fatal injuries.

Emma and Carl Jung in Vienna, 1903, at the start of their marriage. Photograph: Harper CollinsEmma and Carl Jung in Vienna, 1903, at the start of their marriage. Photograph: Harper CollinsThe ObserverCarl JungReviewEmma Jung’s role in the growth of psychoanalysis – and her scandalous life with Carl – is revealed in this absorbing new biographyIn 1899, 17-year-old Emma Rauschenbach, one of Switzerland’s wealthiest heiresses, fell in love with Carl Jung, a penniless Irrenarzt, or doctor of the insane, then the least respected of all medical disciplines.

UK news'We shall prevail'Reactions of world and community leaders to the multiple blasts that hit London's transport system todayThe Queen Prime minister, Tony Blair "Today's bombings will not weaken in any way our resolve to uphold the most deeply-held principles of our societies and to defeat those who would impose their fanaticism and extremism on all of us. We shall prevail and they shall not." US President George Bush at the G8 summit