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I had a beautiful family and all the state support we needed. So why was I using a long-distance ski race as an excuse to let them down? As a child, I had stood at the finish line many times and seen my fathers distant, wild look as he crossed the line of the Vasaloppet

In 1936, Chang Hsueh-liang, also known as the "young marshal" and the "dancing despot", who has died aged 101, changed the history of China and the world. His reward was to become the longest-serving political prisoner in history.

Software extracts emails, texts and contacts and could be used to track movements Chinese border police are secretly installing surveillance apps on the phones of visitors and downloading personal information as part of the governments intensive scrutiny of the remote Xinjiang region, the Guardian can reveal.

Dazzling lyrical snapshots recall the dreamlike style of Fugitive Pieces in the poets third novel, a fluid examination of history, memory and generational trauma Canadian author Anne Michaelss first novel, Fugitive Pieces, published in the UK in 1997, was described by John Berger as the most important book I have read in 40 years. In

Donmar Warehouse, LondonThe performances are superb in this tale of a family dealing with bipolar disorder but the storyline is thin Given that Next to Normal is about a woman with bipolar disorder, it is presumably intentional that the Donmars revival of this 2010 Pulitzer prize-winning musical feels, at times, somewhat overwhelming. The songs and