MusicObituaryCelina González obituarySinger and songwriter who popularised Cuban country music and stayed faithful to Fidel Castro’s revolution Celina González, who has died in Havana aged 86, was revered as the finest exponent of Cuban country music. She was brought up listening to música campesina, the rural form of son, the Cuban fusion style in which rhythms brought to the island by African slaves were matched against Spanish verse forms and melodies.

Australian OpenCompetition is heightened across men’s and women’s draws but the top seeds remain the players to beat in Melbourne In the promotional campaign released by the ATP this month to welcome in the new season, the governing body of men’s tennis underlined that it is determined to look towards the future. As numerous talented young players featured in the campaign, the poet James Massiah narrated the dawn of a new era in a sport that has moved on.

South Carolina This article is more than 7 months old‘Help me’: South Carolina woman alerts police to passenger with silent messageThis article is more than 7 months oldDriver of Jeep stopped for running red light helps police jail man – her own passenger – suspected of attempted murder and kidnap By mouthing the words “help me” to an officer who had pulled her over for a traffic stop, a woman in South Carolina helped authorities jail a man suspected of a shooting and a kidnapping: her own passenger, according to authorities.

Classics and ancient historyObituaryJoyce Reynolds obituaryClassicist and academic who transformed our understanding of Roman imperial historyJoyce Reynolds, who has died aged 103, was an honorary fellow at Newnham College, Cambridge, a classicist specialising in Roman historical epigraphy and the first woman to be awarded the Kenyon medal by the British Academy in 2017. The high noon of a stellar academic career that saw Joyce actively engage with the ancient world in the Middle East and North Africa came in 1982 when she published Aphrodisias and Rome.

… Emma Stone and Ryan Gosling in La La Land. Photograph: PR… Emma Stone and Ryan Gosling in La La Land. Photograph: PRTrailer reviewLa La Land This article is more than 7 years oldLa La Land trailer: Ryan Gosling and Emma Stone salute the Hollywood musicalThis article is more than 7 years oldDamien Chazelle will follow 2014’s sleeper hit Whiplash with a more typical musical that at first glance looks like a fond homage to a classic Hollywood genre