Israel-Gaza war This article is more than 1 month old‘Overjoyed’: nine-year-old hostage Emily Hand returns to family in IsraelThis article is more than 1 month oldRelatives say they ‘can’t find the words to describe our emotions’ as Israeli-Irish girl comes back from Gaza Israel-Hamas war – live updates The family and friends of Emily Hand have spoken of their joy after Hamas released the nine-year-old Israeli-Irish girl from captivity in Gaza late on Saturday.

The hair-raising hipsters of Baghdad – in pictures Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Share via Email You see these gravity-defying quiffs everywhere in Iraq’s capital: on reception staff in the secure hotels, on waiters in cafes and on the youths who gather in Zawra amusement park on Friday afternoons. Often teamed with drainpipe trousers and a fitted jacket, the flashy, ostentatious haircut requires care.

The ObserverThrillersReviewThe rising waters of the Mississippi prove a perfect backdrop for Tom Franklin and Beth Ann Fennelly's dark, prohibition-era taleHobnob Landing, a town of 3,000-odd people "nestled where the Mississippi doubled back on itself like a black racer fixing to bite its tail", is about to go under water: it's 1927, the river is bursting its banks after months of rain, and the levee, a giant wall of earth 30ft high, is about to break.

Tameka "Tiny" Harris is out here living her best life no matter what people have to say about her looks. The 43-year-old mother of four isn't going to let a few insults get to her; to the contrary,she embraces them and flips it on her haters. Earlier this month, Kodak Black included Tiny's name in his ongoing beef with T.I. by speaking negatively about her on his track "Expeditiously." "Tiny, that b*tch ugly as hell, I don't even want Piggy,"

When the Berlin Philharmonic chooses a new chief conductor, it's a big deal. In May the orchestra, often hailed as the world's finest, sequestered itself for a secret vote and some European papers likened the event to a papal conclave. That vote failed, but on June 22 the self-governed Philharmonic suddenly announced Kirill Petrenko as its new chief conductor designate, to replace Simon Rattle in 2018. The 43-year-old, Siberian-born Petrenko is not a marquee name and was absent from many short lists of potential Berlin candidates.