Mary Beth Hurt, star of Interiors and The World According to Garp, dies aged 79

The actor, who was nominated for three Tony awards, made her film debut in Woody Allen’s Interiors and worked into the 2010s including in films made by her second husband, Paul Schrader

Rob Schneider calls on US to restore military draft

The actor and comedian, posting on X, said that ‘unlike in today’s universities’ the military would teach young people ‘how truly great their country is’

I took off my headphones – and noticed a stranger in peril

Slumped on the pavement, she wasn’t breathing – and I wouldn’t have realised if I’d been listening to music as usual. Time to stop blotting out the world …

​​Being Ola review – a sweet and gentle film about disability, friendship and abandonment

Documentary follows a resident of a Norwegian village for people with learning disabilities, spotlighting his connection with a Danish care worker

College Republicans director made racist and sexist remarks on live streams

Review of Kai Schwemmer’s broadcasts undermines claim ‘process of growth’ had led him to abandon bigoted views

‘Nostalgic glint of adventure’: why The Beach is my feelgood movie

The latest in our series of writers paying tribute to their comfort films is a journey back to 2000 when Danny Boyle transported us to paradise

‘Prosthetics aren’t made for people like us’: the brothers creating innovative artificial limbs for Africans

When Ubokobong Amanam lost his fingers in an accident he teamed up with his brother John, a special effects artist, to design a prosthetic that suited him – now they run a thriving business

Night Stage review – public sex enthusiasm the key to extravagant and subversive erotic thriller

In this fantasy drama from Brazil, a gay actor and a closeted politician discover a mutual passion for the same fetish

Q review – freedom, lies and transgressions in emotional fallout from a secretive Muslim women’s movement

Jude Chehab turns the camera on the maelstrom – and slow liberation – after her mother’s expulsion from controversial group al-Qubaysiat

Kim Novak says Sydney Sweeney is ‘totally wrong to play me’ in biopic

The 93-year-old says Sweeney ‘looks sexy all the time’ and she ‘never approved’ Scandalous, drama about her romance with Sammy Davis Jr

Urgent action needed to prevent surge in digital violence in Africa, experts say

A huge rise in internet users under the age of 30 has fuelled an increase in online violence against women and girls with devastating real-life effects, activists say

Will Trump bring peace, or more bombs? Shady speculators seem to bet right every time

The president may not be benefiting directly from betting markets, but he has encouraged a culture that treats politics like a casino floor, says Guardian columnist Nesrine Malik

‘Double standards’: Instagram removes Erin O’Connor’s pregnancy photos again

Model posted pictures of herself naked and ‘in her full power’ to celebrate Mother’s Day, before Meta took them down for breaching nudity guidelines

The kindness of strangers: An online forum user shipped me a car radiator, saving me from financial ruin

Other commenters helped me diagnose the problem. When I couldn’t afford the solution, someone I knew only by his handle offered to pay

‘Serve, smile, procreate’: Yesteryear author Caro Claire Burke on the rise of the tradwife

As her dark debut about a tradwife who wakes up in the past is made into a film by Anne Hathaway, the novelist explores the sinister truth behind the barefoot influencers