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Extraordinary general meeting of the UK writers’ union narrowly voted against making an official protest at violence that has killed ‘at least 95 journalists and media workers’

South Dakota governor says she met North Korean dictator in same book in which she describes killing her dog

Man who emerges from German TV series is a far cry from myth of tortured artist alienated from his family and job

In new book, retired neurosurgeon and former housing secretary emphasises extreme stance at odds even with Trump himself

Ex-White House press secretary Jen Psaki describes telling president of anger that he spoke so much of his own dead son, Beau

‘Dog lover’ South Dakota governor said 14-month-old hound was ‘extremely dangerous’ but failed to mention slowly killing a goat

Republican senator says Noem’s story of killing her 14-month-old hunting dog makes her unlikely to be Trump’s running mate

Harry Potter star reveals in interview that he has had no contact with Rowling since the author’s gender-critical statements on trans women

Paul Auster, the author of 34 books including the acclaimed New York Trilogy, has died aged 77. Auster became known for his ‘highly stylised, quirkily riddlesome postmodernist fiction in which narrators are rarely other than unreliable and the bedrock of plot is continually shifting’, the novelist Joyce Carol Oates wrote in 2010