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Vladimir Putin Putin attends Orthodox Christmas service alone – video The Russian president, Vladimir Putin, attended an Orthodox church Christmas service by himself inside a Kremlin cathedral on Saturday. State television showed two live clips of Putin inside the gilded Cathedral of the Annunciation as Orthodox priests conducted the midnight service, known as the Divine Liturgy. The 70-year-old also attended Christmas by himself last year at his official Novo-Ogaryovo residence outside Moscow

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The ObserverComedyInterviewComedian London Hughes: 'It's about the happy side of sex'Louis WiseHaving battled to kickstart her career in Britain, London Hughes is now raising pulses and laughs in LA with her joyously filthy monologues. Here, she reveals where it all went right For those who have been dozing on the sofa this winter, London Hughes’s Netflix standup special, To Catch a D*ck, will likely bring you out of your snooze. In her one-hour routine, the London-born comedian, actor, writer and TV presenter, 31, who has stormed Hollywood this year, recaps the story of her life so far: basically the quest for a good seeing-to.

MoviesThe script for Kerry Fox's new film, Intimacy, was great. There was just one problem: the sex. Lots of it. Real sex. How did her boyfriend, Alexander Linklater, feel about it?I got my first serious taste of jealousy when I was 18. Just like falling in love, first-time jealousy plunges you deeper into yourself, and is harder to comprehend than any sexual experience that will follow in a lifetime. It is unrepeatable.

ObituaryEleanor SummerfieldFilm, theatre and television actor as adept at drawing tears from her audience as laughsThe actor Eleanor Summerfield, who has died aged 80, shed some early comic light on the earnest, dark and intellectually pretentious plays of the postwar poetic revival in London theatre. While the fashion for verse drama was later to bring Edith Evans in Christopher Fry's The Dark Is Light Enough, Laurence Olivier in that author's Venus Observed and Alec Guinness in TS Eliot's The Cocktail Party, in 1945 E Martin Browne was still struggling to re-establish the movement at the tiny Mercury Theatre in Notting Hill.

Guide to gamesLife and styleRacing demonAKA Pounce, flying demon Decks One per person, each with a different design Players You're only limited by the number of decks you can get your hands on Aim To empty your demon Difficulty 3/5 How to playPatience fans, it's time someone let you in on a secret. Patience is like flipping a coin until you get heads 100 times in a row ... a pointless lottery.

Sweden This article is more than 1 year oldSwedish court dishes out justice after judge steals meatballsThis article is more than 1 year oldSupreme court justice was fined 50,000 kronor after she was caught trying to hide a number of food items in Stockholm A supreme court justice in Sweden has been fined for shoplifting a Christmas ham and meatballs, among other items, the prosecutor in the case has said.

Observer/Faber graphic short story prizeComics and graphic novelsReviewA man's beard troubles the authorities in the excellent first book by Stephen Collins, a former winner of the Cape/Observer graphic prizeSee an exclusive extract from The Gigantic Beard here Who could resist a book with the title The Gigantic Beard That Was Evil? Not me. And here's hoping that beard‑lovers (or, more likely, beard-phobics) everywhere feel the same, for Stephen Collins, who won the Observer/Cape/Comica Graphic short story prize in 2010, deserves his first book to be a huge hit.

The great women's art bulletinKaty HesselAt moments when we need to start all over again, great art is there to salve our wounded feelings and help point the way to the future Last Thursday night I gave a talk at the Hirshhorn in Washington DC. I always stick around afterwards so I can chat to people about their work, their favourite artists or their routes into art. On this occasion, one woman – her eyes glassy – looked at me and said: which artist can I look at to soften heartbreak?