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Pushing ButtonsGamesIn this week’s newsletter: Unrecord puts players in the role of a police officer, and looks every bit like real shootings – so how realistic is too realistic? Don’t get Pushing Buttons delivered to your inbox? Sign up here It looks like footage from a news report. A cop approaches a graffiti-covered, seemingly abandoned building, the sound of his own footsteps and his uniform brushing the mic and disturbing the silence.

FictionReviewThere is hope to be taken from an author's cri de coeurSuicide is packaged as directly as pornography. Its title leaves no room for ambiguity. Its marketing holds out the promise of voyeurism. The text on the back cover dictates how the novel will be consumed: "Edouard Levé delivered the manuscript for his final book . . . just a few days before he took his own life. Suicide is not, then, simply another novel – it is, in a sense, the author's own oblique, public suicide note .

Experts say there are tens of thousands of people in the US who have been falsely convicted with the help of junk forensic ‘science’. Illustration: Klawe Rzeczy/The GuardianCharles McCrory has spent decades in prison for the murder of his wife, convicted on the strength of bite mark evidence. The problem? CSI-style forensics is bad science by Ed PilkingtonCharles McCrory is haunted by a memory from his 1985 trial in which he was accused of murdering his wife, Julie Bonds, in a bloody attack at their home in Andalusia, a small town in deepest Alabama.

Seafood sinigang. Food styling: Henrietta Clancy. Photograph: Romas Foord/The ObserverSeafood sinigang. Food styling: Henrietta Clancy. Photograph: Romas Foord/The ObserverThe ObserverFoodChicken in coconut vinegar, vegetables with fermented shrimp, and cassava cheesecake – the Sarap chef’s homage to his mother’s cooking I was born in Mindanao, in the south of the Philippines, but I grew up in Sydney. We used to return quite often when I was younger, but there was a lot of instability during the late 1990s and early 00s, so we stopped and I never really went back.

US news This article is more than 9 years oldL'Wren Scott funeral: Mick Jagger leads mourners at private service in LAThis article is more than 9 years oldAbout 70 family and friends attend private service for fashion designer amid tight security at Hollywood Forever CemeteryMick Jagger has led mourners in saying goodbye to his girlfriend, L'Wren Scott, at a private funeral in Los Angeles. About 70 family and close friends are thought to have attended the service amid tight security at Hollywood Forever Cemetery.

TV and radio blogMad MenMad Men, series two, episode 12: The Mountain KingOur episode by episode reviews of Mad Men's second season continue, with revelations about Don's past and a nasty shock for JoanSpoiler warning: Don't read on if you haven't seen any of the first series of Mad Men, or the first 11 episodes of series two. Watch The Mountain King on iPlayer. Welcome to the penultimate instalment of NFTBR.

Music This article is more than 8 years oldTravis Scott issues apology for homophobic onstage slurThis article is more than 8 years old‘Never will I ever disrespect that community,’ says Texan rapper after footage from a show back in March emerges Rapper Travis Scott has apologised for the offensive remarks he made during a show in Houston, Texas, at the start of the year. The rapper faced a backlash from social media users after footage emerged of the Texan artist calling a group of people at his gig in March “a bunch of queers” and “faggots” at Houston’s House of Blues.

YESTERYEARWhy is a pirate flag called the Jolly Roger? ANOTHER possibility is that English pirates in the Indian Ocean began to refer to the red flag of the Tamil pirate Ali Raja by his name and 'Ally Roger' or 'Olly Roger' was later corrupted to Jolly Roger. The English word 'roger', meaning a vagabond rogue, may be another explanation. David Mitchell, in his book Pirates, discusses this question and seems to prefer a derivation from Old Roger - a synonym for the Devil.

FashionOur outfits contain BPA, PFAS and other dangerous substances – but we still know little about their cumulative impact The first thing that happened when Mary, an Alaska Airlines attendant, received a new, high-performance, synthetic uniform in the spring of 2011 was a hacking cough. Then a rash bloomed on her chest. Next came migraines, brain fog, a racing heart, and blurry vision. Mary (whose name I’ve withheld to protect her job) was one of hundreds of Alaska Airlines attendants reporting that year that the uniforms were causing blistering rashes, swollen eyelids crusted with pus, hives, and in the most serious case, breathing problems and allergic reactions so severe that one attendant, John, had to be taken off the plane and to the ER multiple times.