People run to safety from the scene of a mass shooting in Lewiston, Maine, on Wednesday night. Photograph: Nichoel Wyman Arel/ReutersPeople run to safety from the scene of a mass shooting in Lewiston, Maine, on Wednesday night. Photograph: Nichoel Wyman Arel/ReutersMaine This article is more than 2 months oldMaine mass shooting: what we know so farThis article is more than 2 months oldAt least 16 reported killed, dozens wounded in Lewiston shooting; police warn residents to stay inside as they search for gunman

Peter PorterObituaryPeter Porter obituaryAustralian-born poet whose moving, elegiac work was seen as among Britain's finestPeter Porter, who has died of cancer, aged 81, was, though Australian by birth, one of Britain's best-loved and most prolific poets. His life and work exhibited a voracious and passionate care for European and humanist culture, especially music, which he valued – though not without a certain regret – even above poetry. Porter was born in Brisbane, Queensland, and was educated initially at the Church of England grammar school there.

THIS SCEPTRED ISLEWhy are ice-cream cones with flakes stuck in them called 99s? Nick Allen , Saltaire, UK I seem to remember the flakes that were put in the ice-creams were originally called 99s. Sandy, Paussac, France So that Wikipedia could run a business. CHECK THE WEB FIRST! 99 Hail Marys. John Rymell, Stepney, UK Because in roman numerals 99 is IC - Ice Cream Maybe not true but I like it.

Alexis Petridis's album of the weekWilcoReview(dBpm Records) Jeff Tweedy and co’s 13th album bears a close family resemblance to Yankee Hotel Foxtrot, but with Cate Le Bon in the producer’s chair, it has an appealing wash of left-field weirdness and its lyrics express an older man’s anxieties You could read a lot into the fact that the opening track of Wilco’s 13th album, Infinite Surprise, also provided the album’s working title.

RefugeesObituaryBarbara Harrell-Bond obituaryPassionate campaigner for refugees who founded the Refugee Studies Centre at Oxford UniversityBarbara Harrell-Bond, who has died aged 85, was a powerful and passionate advocate for the rights and dignity of refugees. For almost 40 years, her name was synonymous with their cause. Through her scholarship, her influential but often scathing critiques of the “humanitarian industry”, as she termed it, but above all for her insistence that the voices of refugees must be heard, their agency recognised and their rights protected, she transformed humanitarian practice from its paternalistic and self-justifying modes of action.