The 'Noises Off' writer puts a chubby lecturer slap in the middle of a classical, saucy, bedroom-door-slamming farce

Certain errors of judgement are so severe they deserve a public health warning. Never tell the unvarnished truth when your wife, or significant other, asks whether her "bum looks big in this". Never treat the taxmanto your version of Michael McIntyre's only joke.

Norwegian right-wing extremist Anders Behring Breivik, on trial for killing 77 people in a massacre last July, says he won't appeal the court's verdict if he is deemed sane.

Large numbers of teenage refugees are still being routinely locked up, two years after the Coalition Government promised to end the detention of asylum-seeking children, a report today discloses.

Joe Orton's famous sex farce is the latest addition to theatreland's retro craze. Despite being funny and well acted, it's jokes are showing their age

Mothers will receive one-to-one care from a named midwife as part of government plans to combat postnatal depression.

A woman blinded in an horrendous violent assault by her boyfriend has urged people suffering domestic violence to come forward.

From an early age, Maurice Sendak knew where the wild things were. His Brooklyn upbringing, he once recalled, was overshadowed by the death of his extended family in the Holocaust. "My childhood was about thinking about the kids over there... My burden is living for those who didn't."

Homeland may have won plenty of plaudits but the Israeli original is even better, says Gerard Gilbert

Homeland won plaudits but the Israeli original is even better

Packed with shadowy oddness

Goldsmiths is launching training for Tech City start-ups. By Stephen Hoare

The detention of a mentally ill man in police custody for more than three days without medical care breached his human rights, a court has ruled.

A man who has spent 15 years drawing an imaginary city whose residents are human excrement who have sex in public, and a woman who changed her name to Spartacus have been nominated for this year's Turner Prize.