CaliforniaLos Angeles Innocence Project takes Scott Peterson case up 21 years after wife’s murderNon-profit says it is investigating 51-year-old’s ‘claim of actual innocence’ over high-profile killing of pregnant wife Two decades after Scott Peterson was sentenced to death for the murder of his pregnant wife in a high-profile trial, the Los Angeles Innocence Project said this week that it had taken up the case. The development marks a significant breakthrough for the 51-year-old, who has long maintained his innocence and has claimed he received an unfair trial.

DC Comics This article is more than 8 years oldSocial media mocks DC Comics for note saying Pakistan language is 'Pakistanian'This article is more than 8 years oldThe US publisher’s latest Superman/Wonder Woman annual includes an editor’s note describing text as ‘translated from Pakistanian’, setting social media alight with derision It’s just another job for Superman and Wonder Woman: a group of shepherds in the Shimshal region of Pakistan are being menaced by a demigod, until the superheroes show up.

Book of the dayPolitics booksReviewA warts-and-all account of Sinn Féin’s political journey out of the shadows To appreciate the astonishing rise of Sinn Féin consider this: even the IRA once disdained the party. “We used to say it was made up of cowards and women,” a former IRA man told Aoife Moore. “These are people who do the collections, look after your family when you’re inside, but there was no chance that you were sort of taking a political lead from them.

Ciro Maiello opens the window of his apartment in Naples, on which is painted the head of Diego Maradona. Photograph: Roberto Salomone/The GuardianCiro Maiello, whose home is adorned with a painting of the player, says Napoli’s first Serie A win since Diego’s days heralds a new dawn for the city by Lorenzo Tondo in NaplesAt 10.37pm on 4 May the man who lives in Diego Maradona’s head threw open the window of his flat in the Spanish Quarter district in Naples for the first time in months, erupting in a cathartic scream as the city celebrated another moment in its rebirth.

Portugal’s defender Pepe, preparing to leap to his feet after going down in the group game against Morocco. Photograph: Antonin Thuillier/AFP/Getty ImagesPortugal’s defender Pepe, preparing to leap to his feet after going down in the group game against Morocco. Photograph: Antonin Thuillier/AFP/Getty ImagesWorld Cup 2018It’s become the talking point of the tournament but where does the term come from? And what are its worst examples? Shithousery is a fairly nebulous term, taking in as it does pretty much all the dark arts employed on a football pitch – everything from diving to headbutting via haranguing the referee and time-wasting.