Bill Clinton This article is more than 25 years oldPhones, moans and breaking up: Lewinsky's testimonyThis article is more than 25 years oldMonica Lewinsky's account of her affair with the PresidentOn sex:
According to Ms Lewinsky, she and the president had 10 sexual encounters, eight while she worked at the White House and two thereafter. The sexual encounters generally occurred in or near the private study off the Oval Office - most often in the windowless hallway outside the study.
PFAS This article is more than 3 months oldScientists call on ministers to cut limits for ‘forever chemicals’ in UK tap waterThis article is more than 3 months oldPermitted levels of PFAS should be lowered tenfold and national chemicals agency created, says Royal Society of Chemistry
Acceptable levels of “forever chemicals” in drinking water should be reduced tenfold and a new national chemicals agency created to protect public health, the Royal Society of Chemistry (RSC) has told the UK government.
FictionReviewThe ecstatic mingles with the banal in a novel about lives lived too close for comfort in an apartment block in rust-belt Indiana
“On a hot night in Apartment C4, Blandine Watkins exits her body. She is only 18, but she has spent most of her life wishing for this to happen,” begins The Rabbit Hutch. “The mystics call this experience the Transverberation of the Heart, or the Seraph’s Assault, but no angel appears to Blandine.
Donald Trump takes the stage during a campaign rally at the SNHU Arena in Manchester, New Hampshire, on Saturday. Photograph: Chip Somodevilla/Getty ImagesDonald Trump takes the stage during a campaign rally at the SNHU Arena in Manchester, New Hampshire, on Saturday. Photograph: Chip Somodevilla/Getty ImagesDonald TrumpSupporters absorb former US president’s strategy of inverting accusations against him and turning them on his accuser. To his fans, Trump is the saviour of democracy
Guardian first book award 2008ReviewFrank Cottrell Boyce enjoys a brilliant debut, in which good intentions have disastrous resultsA Fraction of the Whole
by Steve Toltz
720pp, Hamish Hamilton, £17.99
When your children are young, you feel that no matter how loud you shout, or how brilliantly you manipulate them, they're not really listening. Then they grow up and you realise that they've been listening only too closely. You've been a massive influence on them.
The ObserverRepublic of IrelandInterviewAiden McGeady: ‘I know a lot of people who retired too early’Ewan MurrayFormer Republic of Ireland winger is eager to find a new club at the age of 37. ‘I enjoy competing. I know I can still play’
Aiden McGeady is one of the most talented Scottish footballing exports of a generation but destined never to be regarded as such. His decision to represent the Republic of Ireland had the strange knock-on effect of deleting his name from conversation regarding the finest products of youth systems – in this case Celtic’s – in his homeland.
Anita Pallenberg in 1967. ‘She, Mick, Keith and Brian were the Rolling Stones. Her influence has been profound. She keeps things crazy,’ Jo Bergman, the band’s personal assistant, said in a 2008 interview. Photograph: AlamyActor and model who played a vital role in the famously debauched court of the Rolling Stones during the 60s and 70sby Adam SweetingAnita Pallenberg, who has died aged 73, will always be remembered for her close liaison with the Rolling Stones, and particularly for her long-term relationship with Keith Richards.
ArgentinaObituaryCarlos GuastavinoThe voice of Carlos Guastavino, who has died aged 88, was, perhaps, the most quietly distinctive in 20th-century Argentinian music. Vigorously rejecting the stylistic radicalism of Alberto Ginastera and his younger compatriot Mauricio Kagel, he followed in the footsteps of 19th-century nationalists such as Julián Aguirre and Alberto Williams.
Yet Guastavino was a no less influential figure for the younger generation of composers - particularly in popular music - growing up in Argentina in the 1960s and 70s.
Gardening blogGardensHow to foil a fox attack on your chickensFoxes love a chicken dinner, but how do you keep them at bay? Andy Cawthray shares his tips on making sure your flock is safe from predatorsI live in a rural area, so it comes as no surprise that the countryside around me has its fair share of foxes; there's plenty of food for them after all and no real predator risk save falling prey to the odd Michelin tyre.