Science fiction booksReviewOnly the young survive in this fascinating thought experiment by the author of The Three-Body ProblemThe jacket for Cixin Liu’s new novel carries a blurb from none other than Barack Obama: “Wildly imaginative, really interesting … The scope of it was immense.” What the publishers rather disingenuously neglect to specify is that this and the other glowing review snippets are not for the present book at all, but for the multi-award-winning, global phenomenon that was his Remembrance of Earth’s Past trilogy, beginning with The Three-Body Problem (first published in English in 2014).

Torture This article is more than 14 years oldTortured with pliers: fingernail evidence and the British linkThis article is more than 14 years oldUK officials who questioned him in Pakistan saw injuries, says man jailed for terrorismLike many other young men detained by Pakistan's notorious ISI agency during a British counter-terrorism investigation, Rangzieb Ahmed had a harrowing story to tell about how he was questioned by a pair of intelligence officers from the UK after suffering appalling torture at the hands of the Pakistanis.

BoxingObituaryBobo OlsonChampion boxer who saw off the finest fighters of his timeAfter seeing Carl "Bobo" Olson crash to the canvas during his third, ill-fated encounter with the great Sugar Ray Robinson in December 1955, an unimpressed Joe DiMaggio was heard to comment: "This guy just doesn't get up, does he?" The remark was unkind on the Hawaiian-born Olson, who has died aged 73 of Alzheimer's disease. Despite being knocked out by Robinson on three occasions, he still managed to hold the world middleweight title for a two-year period, during which he saw off some of the best fighters of the time, including Britain's Randolph Turpin.

BPAnalysisBP chief Tony Hayward's statement in fullBP boss's full statement to congressional committee on the Deepwater Horizon oil spill, the causes, clean-up operation, and BP's actions and responsibilitiesBP chief executive Tony Hayward will appear before the US house energy and commerce subcommittee on oversight and investigations at 10am EST (3pm BST) to answer questions on the Deepwater Horizon oil spill. This is his prepared testimony, released before the hearing: Chairman Stupak, ranking member Burgess, members of the subcommittee.

GoodfellasWhile the acclaimed 1990 gangster drama has been viewed by some as a bro fantasy, a closer look shows an elegant and brutal dissection of male ego A few weeks ago, as if inadvertently anticipating its 30th anniversary this month, Goodfellas found itself the unlikely subject of a Twitter flame war, kicked off by one non-admiring podcaster’s viral tweet. “Really sucks that every time you start dating a new guy you’re basically signing up to take a ‘film theory 101’ class of his making,” vented Dana Donnelly.