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Jake Kerridge salutes two sleuths struggling against their waning mental faculties

Alex McFadyen tests the latest in sub-aqua camera technology

The sixth series of Community, which was cancelled by NBC earlier this year, will now air online on Yahoo Screen.

Singer's estate boosted by $20m gathered by his manager since his death last year at 71

Lou Reed has proved to be more profitable in death than in life, with his estate swelled by $20.4m (£11.9m) since his death, in addition to the money distributed in his will.

According to documents lodged with Manhattan Surrogate Court by Reed's manager Robert Gotterer, the singer's estate totals $30m (£17.5m), with two-thirds of that having been gathered by Gotterer since Reed's death at the age of 71 last year.

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The US actor Robert Downey Jr has thanked police for arresting his 20-year-old son on suspicion of cocaine possession.

As he looks forward to the A Love Supreme festival, Ivan Hewett recalls when jazz fans went on a festival rampage

Artist Dame Zaha Hadid's Heydar Aliyev Center in Baku, Azerbaijan, wins the Design Museum Design of the Year Award.

Two new publishers in Melbourne have cast a stylish eye over an oft-overlooked genre pet magazines

Over recent months, animal lovers in Melbourne have been hunting down a new and stylish, independent magazine dedicated to cats. As Cat People vacated shops, another Melbourne publisher was putting the finishing touches to Four&Sons, also a new and stylish, independent magazine but dedicated to dogs.

Youre entitled to an eye roll. Maybe you're thinking: dogs wearing flat caps, cats wearing cardigans, dogs listening to the National, cats knitting decorative replica cats out of organic kale. Adorably stupid kittens in strategic Buzzfeed lists: Look at me yawn, then burn fat with this one weird trick.

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John Cleese and co reunite this month, but one Python will be missing from the cast. Ken Levy recalls how a chance encounter backstage led to an unlikely friendship

April 1976. There I was, a fledgling reporter for my university's newspaper, come to see Monty Python live at New York's City Centre. I somehow managed to talk my way backstage hours ahead of showtime, when journalists from more grown-up media such as the New York Times were being kept at bay. I couldn't believe my good fortune as I was led through a maze of dressing rooms and wardrobe areas. Gilliam-esque stage sets met my gaze, as did a sign on a half-opened door that read "Carol Cleveland". I remember peering briefly into the empty room and seeing Ms Cleveland's bra hanging over a chair. Heady stuff.

Introduced by his ward, John Tomiczek, I suddenly found myself in front of Graham Chapman. He greeted me affably and invited me to sit while he prepared for the evening's first skit by zipping himself into a Spanish senorita costume.

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Being invited to join the selection committee was an honour - until the changes started, says Bonnie Greer

The comedian says that science is relegated because TV executives have art degrees and 'hated science at school'

Redtory Art & Design Factory, E9 Gallery, Guangzhou
An exhibition in Guangzhou called Yiban Yiban Yellah Fellah has featured three artists of mixed heritage

Yiban Yiban Yellah Fellah opened on a sweltering summer afternoon at Redtory Art & Design Factory in Guangzhou, the sprawling capital of Guangdong province in southern China. While the contemporary art scene in Guangzhou is less pronounced than in Beijing or Shanghai, it is this Cantonese-speaking area that largely spawned Australias early waves of Chinese migration from the mid-19th century onwards. That cultural legacy lies at the heart of Yiban Yiban.

Yiban is Mandarin for half, and Yellah Fellah is an Aboriginal term for people of mixed (Aboriginal and non-Aboriginal) descent. Hence this exhibition, curated by the prominent, senior Aboriginal curator Djon Mundine, comprised the work of three Aboriginal artists who also share Chinese heritage: Gary Lee, Sandra Hill and Jason Wing.

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Author Denise Mina could make it a hat-trick win as she finds herself again in the running for the Theakstons Old Peculier Crime Novel of the Year Award.

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