Big Brother This article is more than 14 years oldBig Brother contestant Sree Dasari slashes his wristsThis article is more than 14 years oldReality TV show facing questions about screening of housemates after student admitted to hospitalChannel 4 and Endemol, the producers of Big Brother, are facing renewed questions about contestants' mental health after a recently evicted participant was taken to hospital after apparently self-harming while watching the programme.
Sree Dasari, 25, was admitted to hospital in the early hours of Friday after cutting his wrists in his room at the University of Hertfordshire, where he is an overseas student.
ArchitectureIf you want to lay a road, build a house, or construct a dam in Iceland, there’s one influential group you have to clear it with first – elves. Oliver Wainwright on the power of the ‘hidden people’
Rocky elf homes – in pictures
Huddled together amid the jagged rocks of the Gálgahraun lava field, a group of nervous onlookers wait with bated breath. Suddenly, there’s a loud crack and a tumble of stones as a 50-tonne boulder is wrenched from the ground, then slowly raised into the air and eased down nearby, so delicately you’d think it was a priceless sculpture.
Mark TwainMark Twain(1835-1910 )1835-1910
"The man who doesn't read good books has no advantage over the man who can't read them"
BirthplaceFlorida, US
EducationTwain moved with his family to Hannibal, Missouri at the age of four, and received a public school education there.
Other jobsHaving worked as a printer and riverboat pilot during his teenage years, Twain had a brief stint as a silver miner in Nevada before getting a job on the Daily Territorial Enterprise newspaper in Virginia.
TravelPaul Theroux, William Dalrymple, Kari Herbert, Colin Thubron and many more writers tell us about the travel book that most influenced their own life and workColin Thubron StarkIonia: a Quest, by Freya Stark
Travel books, like others, change perspective as we grow older, and I can see now that Freya Stark's Ionia: a Quest is an enchanting but disturbingly moralistic account of a journey that this remarkable woman took in the early 1950s along the west coast of Turkey.
‘I do my best not to let this insidious disease control me,’ Suzanne Somers told Entertainment Tonight over the summer, of her cancer returning. Photograph: Jamie McCarthy/Getty Images‘I do my best not to let this insidious disease control me,’ Suzanne Somers told Entertainment Tonight over the summer, of her cancer returning. Photograph: Jamie McCarthy/Getty ImagesTelevision This article is more than 3 months oldSuzanne Somers, star of Three’s Company sitcom, dies aged 76This article is more than 3 months oldActor, first diagnosed with breast cancer in her 50s after battling skin cancer in her 30s, was also known for role in American Graffiti