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Palestinian poet Ashraf Fayadh’s death sentence quashed by Saudi court

Panel of judges downgrades punishment for apostasy conviction to eight years in prison and 800 lashes

Pope Francis to make movie debut playing himself in children’s gospel film

The pope will be the first pontiff to appear in a feature film – though Vatican forewarns ‘he is not an actor’

Fifty Shades of Grey publisher ordered to pay $11.5m in royalties to teacher

Jennifer Pedroza of Texas sued former business partner Amanda Hayward for defrauding her of money Writer’s Coffee Shop earned from popular erotic novels

Eight words that reveal the sexism at the heart of the English language

As Oxford Dictionaries comes under fire for sexist definitions, the history of terms that refer to women shows how deep negative attitudes go

Artist’s ‘blank books’ project seeks to restock historic Baghdad library

Wafaa Bilal will send Kickstarter donors an empty white book and put real book on shelves of University of Baghdad library that was destroyed in war

A dictionary entry citing ‘rabid feminist’ doesn’t just reflect prejudice, it reinforces it

Objectionable phrases may be widely used, but Oxford Dictionaries has a responsibility to define them by other means

As The 5th Wave flounders at the global box office, YA sci-fi faces endgame

Search for successor to The Hunger Games continues, with latest YA franchise’s making weak start, while Daddy’s Home hints at global expansion for comedy star Will Ferrell

Dylan Thomas copyright claims thrown out by Irish court

Man suffers double blow after suing Welsh government over use of historic images and bringing libel case against photographer’s 93-year-old widow

The Guardian view on knowledge in an information age: take it to heart

Editorial: In the era of the smartphone, London cabbies are going to keep committing every last alley to memory. It might seem pointless, but we gain insight as well as information by exercising the memory

No trolls allowed: Seattle advertises a writing residency … in a bridge

The US city’s transport department offers $10,000 for a ‘unique’ residency in a bridge tower – in return for ‘an in-depth exploration’ of the space

Tolstoy’s Christian anarchism was a war on both church and state

Loose canon: War and Peace is not just a Russian Downton Abbey, it’s an extended argument for that most foolish of moral wisdom: pacifism

14 years a fugitive: the hunt for Ratko Mladić, the Butcher of Bosnia

The long read: The Bosnian Serb general is accused of killing thousands of civilians at Srebrenica and Sarajevo – the worst atrocities in Europe since the Nazi era. Julian Borger tells the inside story of how he evaded capture for so long and was finally caught

Fairytales much older than previously thought, say researchers

Study of fairy story origins traces some back thousands of years, with one tale dating back as far as bronze age

What happens when children’s books fail to confront the complexity of slavery?

We need literature that wrestles with the evils of slavery while confronting its complexity – especially when it’s written for children

Sean Penn’s El Chapo interview ‘horribly misguided’ says Cartel author

Don Winslow, who has written two books about the drugs war, has condemned the notorious Rolling Stone article and believes Penn needs to apologise

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