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Climber left for dead rescued from Everest | World news

Australian mountaineer Lincoln Hall stands in front of Mount Everest before departing from Advanced Base Camp at 6400m (20,800ft). Photograph: Reuters Sherpas pronounced Lincoln Hall, 50, dead at sunset on Thursday after he had shown no signs of life for two hours. The five-strong team then left him behind at 8,800 metres, forced to continue

How Coco Gauff and her father plotted a new route to US Open glory

Teenager was struggling in spring but different coaches and her dad taking a step back proved to be inspired decisions Even as the WTA tour had shifted on to the European red clay season this year, Coco Gauffs favourite surface and the period that brought her first grand slam final at the French Open in

Munkkiniemi tower in pictures | Money

A Gothic residence fit for HIM or her Jill Papworth Tue 5 Sep 2017 05.30EDT Photograph: Tranio

QualityLand by Marc-Uwe Kling review a hit-and-miss riff on capitalist ills

A bestseller in Germany, this knockabout dystopia unfolds in the rampantly consumerist state of QualityLand, where mending is outlawed (To make the markets fly, we just have to buy!) and citizens are ranked by algorithm, dictating the intensity with which the police will investigate if one is unlucky enough to be murdered.

Robert Sabuda's top 10 pop-up books | Children's books

I saw my first pop-up book as the result of a terrifying visit to the dentist. Apparently I wasn't properly frozen while getting a cavity filled and screamed bloody murder in the way that only a seven-year-old can. My mother stormed in and dragged me from the dentist's chair spewing vitriol certainly not fit for