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The ObserverIsraelIran accuses Israel of killing Revolutionary Guards spy chief in DamascusIslamic Revolutionary Guard Corps says it has lost four members in strike on Syrian capital Middle East crisis – live updates A suspected Israeli strike killed the Iranian Revolutionary Guards’ espionage chief for Syria and three other guard members on Saturday, Iran has said, in an attack that destroyed much of a multistorey residential building in Damascus. The UK-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said six people were killed in the Israeli strike on the upmarket Mazzeh neighbourhood in the Syrian capital.

Marie West, 81 On March 6 1995, Harold Shipman injected Mrs West, his first victim, with a fatal dose of diamorphine (the medical term for heroine), unaware that her friend was in the next room. Shipman first told Mrs West's son that she had died of a massive stroke, then said it was a heart attack. Mrs West ran a clothes shop in Hyde, a suburb of Manchester, where all the victims came from.

OpinionFood This article is more than 1 year oldAfter three weeks travelling in Europe, I’m calling it – British food is the bestThis article is more than 1 year oldAdrian ChilesIn Italy all you get is Italian and we win hands down on variety. That is, until you stop off at a motorway service station Last month in Croatia an old Serbian guy told me a joke about the British, the French, the Germans and the Swiss.

‘Dramatic and playful’: an image from Superfacial. Photograph: Audrey Tautou‘Dramatic and playful’: an image from Superfacial. Photograph: Audrey TautouThe ObserverAudrey TautouInterviewAudrey Tautou: ‘My subject in these photos is somebody between the character and who I am’Alex ClarkThe French actor has been in the public eye since Amélie in 2001. Now, in her first show as a photographer, she’s playing around with that image ‘I’m an interesting subject,” says Audrey Tautou, the French actor who exhibited her photographs for the first time this summer at the Arles festival under the title Superfacial.

Brighton & Hove AlbionBrighton set to sign teenager Valentín Barco from Boca JuniorsBrighton to pay 19-year-old’s £7.8m release clauseLeft-sided player set to sign four-and-a-half-year contractBrighton have agreed a deal to sign highly-rated teenager Valentín Barco from Boca Juniors after agreeing to pay his $10m (£7.8m) release clause. Scouts from Brighton are understood to have been tracking the 19-year-old, who can play as a left-back or winger, for several months and held positive talks with Boca officials last week.

Jeremy Clarkson This article is more than 10 months oldDeath threats made against two people opposed to Jeremy Clarkson’s farm planThis article is more than 10 months oldMalicious communications sent to two people against ex-Top Gear host’s Diddly Squat farm expansion Death threats have been made against two people who opposed Jeremy Clarkson’s Diddly Squat farm expansion, the local council has revealed. West Oxfordshire district council has said it is aware of malicious communications against an unnamed councillor and a member of the public who spoke out against the 62-year-old former Top Gear presenter’s plans.

Grindr This article is more than 3 years oldGrindr dating app removes ethnicity filter to support Black Lives MatterThis article is more than 3 years oldFeature will not be part of app’s next release following accusations of hypocrisy Grindr is removing an “ethnicity filter” from its dating app as part of its support for the Black Lives Matter movement, the company announced on Monday. The controversial feature, limited to those who stump up £12.

Lee Krasner in her New York studio, c 1939: ‘She didn’t suffer fools.’ Photograph: Photograph by Maurice Berezov. Copyright A.E. Artworks, LLC.Lee Krasner in her New York studio, c 1939: ‘She didn’t suffer fools.’ Photograph: Photograph by Maurice Berezov. Copyright A.E. Artworks, LLC.The ObserverArtLee Krasner’s huge contribution to abstract expressionism was overshadowed for years by the work of her husband, Jackson Pollock. On the eve of a major London show, we trace her story

Alt-belting with a corset belt on the Prada catwalk for autumn. Photograph: Sipa/Rex/ShutterstockAlt-belting with a corset belt on the Prada catwalk for autumn. Photograph: Sipa/Rex/ShutterstockFashionForget holding your trousers up. Alt-belting is conceptual – and it’s the way to wear your belt now Accessory update: belts are no longer just belts. They have been replaced with, if you will, an abstraction of the belt (insert thinking face emoji here). Enter alt-belting, a twist on belt-wearing that requires anything other than your classic leather cinched-in number, and flips the idea of a belt as a way to accentuate your waist to something far more high-minded.