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Edward Snowden has secured his highest endorsement yet in the US when former vice-president Al Gore described the leaking of top secret intelligence documents as "an important service". Asked if he regarded Snowden as a traitor or whistleblower, Gore veered away from the "traitor" label. He refused to go as far as labelling him a

The death of the two-time US pairs champion brought up uncomfortable questions about power dynamics in ice skating and sexual abuse in sports We are in the midst of a great reckoning around abuse in sports. Athletes from Olympic champions to high school students have come forward to detail harrowing accounts of

Hal E Chester, who has died aged 91, was a juvenile actor, then a producer of low-budget movies in Hollywood, before he moved in 1955 to Britain, where he set up his own production company to take advantage of the lower costs of filming. Over the next 15 years he turned out a wide range

The pianist on playing to an empty Wigmore Hall, his novel about sex and priests, and being fingerprinted for working visas post-Brexit Born in Cheshire, Stephen Hough is one of the worlds top pianists. He is also a composer, a published writer and a painter, with a passion for jazz, ballet, hats, perfume and puddings.

From a film made in Adelaide for less than $10,000 to gory and haunting classics, here are some flicks that will keep you up at night Horror is the go-to genre for buried secrets and things weve tried to evade and cant. But sometimes horror is also about catharsis, or just a good time.