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Lawyer X This article is more than 6 months oldLawyer X scandal: special investigator’s office closes with chances of prosecution ‘effectively nil’This article is more than 6 months oldHead of OSI argued any further work would be a ‘waste of time’ but Victorian attorney general says decision to lay charges rests with the DPP Get our morning and afternoon news emails, free app or daily news podcast Barrister Nicola Gobbo and the Victoria police officers who recruited her as an informer during Melbourne’s gangland war will not face charges over the scandal as the agency appointed to build criminal cases against them is being disbanded.

Liberia This article is more than 3 years oldLiberian rebel commander accused of cannibalism goes on trial in SwitzerlandThis article is more than 3 years oldAlieu Kosiah is also accused of being involved in killing of 18 civilians, rape and recruiting child soldier A former rebel commander accused of involvement in killing civilians, rape and eating pieces of a schoolteacher’s heart during Liberia’s civil war has decried his long pre-trial detention as proceedings began in Switzerland on Thursday.

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GamesThe 15 greatest games of the 2010s – ranked!The 2010s birthed games that changed the world, from Grand Theft Auto V to Pokémon Go. In a decade with so many exceptional games to pick from, which will win out? 15. Pokémon Go(Niantic, 2016) Pokemon GO Photograph: Anadolu Agency/Getty ImagesFor a few months in 2016, you couldn’t go anywhere without seeing people swiping at their phones, trying to catch a Psyduck superimposed on their local streets.

The ObserverSpecial educational needsUK council could go bust due to £60m hole in special needs spendingParents fear government accountancy rules are severely impacting the chances of getting a care programme for Send children A council has warned that it could in effect become insolvent this year because of the huge financial deficits it has racked up on special education needs, in the latest development in the local government funding crisis.

GamesThis is a genuinely fraught topic: is it generational, habitual, or explained by neuroscience? I asked the experts Imagine you are playing a video game where you’re looking out over an explorable world. You have a controller in your hand and you want your character to look or move upwards: in what direction do you push the joystick? If the answer is “up”, you’re in the majority – most players push up on a stick, or slide a mouse upwards, to instigate upward motion in a game.

Architecture and design blogArchitectureReviewIt may be an improvement on the old station, with a light-flooded atrium and a huge concourse, but the Foreign Office Architects project is a very British trade-off When a young London-based duo won an international competition for the Yokohama ferry terminal in Japan in 1995, there was a collective gasp of incredulity. The shock was not only that the couple, still in their early 30s, could land a £150m port project on the other side of the world, but that their design was unlike anything seen before.

Vagina dispatchesLife and styleThe Vagina Dispatches asked you for your drawings, and we got plenty – ranging from the requested vulvas to penises to cars. Here’s what we learned Add your own drawing here: draw a vulva Submissions for the Great Wall of Vulvas will close down on 31 December. Add your vulva drawing before the year comes to a close. We were prepared for the penises. We were ready for the onslaught of offensive, hand-drawn internet memes.

CoachellaCoachella 2024 lineup: Lana Del Rey, Doja Cat and Tyler, the Creator to headline in AprilFestival on 12 to 14 April and 19 to 21 April at Empire polo club will also feature reunion of No Doubt, as well as performances by Blur and Ice Spice Lana Del Rey, Tyler, the Creator and Doja Cat will headline the 2024 Coachella music festival, with the Gwen Stefani-fronted ska band No Doubt reuniting as part of the lineup after last playing together in 2015.