Spanish town set to spend subsidy on books instead of bullfights
Traditional bullfight which costs Villafranca de los Caballeros around €18,000 a year may end after council votes on using fund for school supplies
France beats Britain to win first European Quidditch Games
French side’s main keeper breaks his shoulder in tough 90-50 final of Harry Potter-inspired tournament held in Italian hillside
Brooms up! European Quidditch finals sweep Tuscan town
Players from 12 countries vie for continental title in sport invented by Harry Potter author, which now has international governing body
Appreciation: Chenjerai Hove, 1956-2015
Generous and inspiring, the prolific Zimbabwean writer and activist, who has died in exile in Norway, should be hailed as a national treasure
Benjamin Dix: ‘I’m the custodian of some of the darkest stories in the world’
Working for the UN during Sri Lanka’s civil war prompted Benjamin Dix to find a way to bring human rights abuses to a wider audience. Here he explains why comic strips proved the perfect medium
The lady’s not for turning: cinematic portrayals of lesbians need to get real
Films about lesbians too often involve the conversion of a younger, straight woman by an older gay woman. It’s time to drop the predatory trope
Ridley Scott targets Mexican drug-war thriller The Cartel
Exodus: Gods and Kings director attached to adaptation of Don Winslow’s novel, with Leonardo DiCaprio a possibility for one of the lead roles
The Hunger Games: Mockingjay – Part 2: watch the first full length trailer
Jennifer Lawrence plays Katniss Everdeen for the last time in the battle-focused final chapter Mockingjay – Part 2
‘Oldest’ Qur’an fragments found at Birmingham University
Radiocarbon analysis dates Islamic parchment to period between AD568 and AD645
EL Doctorow obituary
One of the most celebrated American novelists best known for his historical fiction whose books Ragtime and Billy Bathgate were turned into films
Spectre trailer: watch the first full-length trailer for the new James Bond film
Daniel Craig is back in black and white tie, Lea Seydoux showcases ski-wear, there’s a car that can do 0-60mph in three seconds – and Christoph Waltz bills himself as ‘the author of all your pain’
David Gordon Green to direct story of Boston marathon bombing survivor
Manglehorn director to take on film about Jeff Bauman, who lost both his legs in the attack on the Boston marathon in 2013
Does the Bible really say that global warming will make the Earth ‘vomit us out’?
A clergyman’s borrowed warning of ecological doom reminds me that theology can be flexible enough to fit many times and places
Please ban our books too, Mr Mayor: it’s all or none of us
The mayor of Venice has banned books about same-sex families but I and my fellow authors don’t want our work in schools where censorship rules
Grant Morrison: Batman v Superman denies Wonder Woman’s pacifist roots
Scottish comic-book legend laments introduction of ‘snarling’, pugilistic take on female superhero in Zack Snyder’s forthcoming Dawn of Justice