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Olga Korbut As a 17-year-old she won international fame with two individual golds and one as part of the Soviet Union's team at the 1972 Olympics. But the gymnast from what is now independent Belarus later claimed that her coach, Renald Knysh, raped her before a competition. Korbut emigrated to the United States in 1991

The former PMs biggest fan pins the blame for his downfall on a group of Bond-like Baddies known as The Movement in a pyramid of piffle acclaimed by David Icke The moment this piece is published, I will be tendering my resignation to the editor. I have failed him, I have failed the Observer and

Stretching for miles, this narrow, white-sand beach, fringed by small trees, hugs clear, blue waters. Pigeon Point Road is lined with fishing huts some converted into restaurants and stalls selling trinkets (calabashes and the like). Further along the peninsula there is a beach facility with cabanas, bars and a restaurant. There is a

Translation is the key to magic, as Kuang uses her genre to sharpen a historical investigation into colonisation, learning and power Welcome to Babel: the great Oxford translation institute in an alternative version of Victorian England, where translators hold the keys to the British empire. Every device and engineering technique there is, from steam trains

Its the hit show inspired by a Canadian towns goodwill to 6,500 stranded plane people after the September 11 attacks. Twenty years on, Gander is rightly proud of its open-hearted hospitality