OpinionMother's Day This article is more than 1 year oldWhen you’re childless not by choice, Mother’s Day can be a painful reminder of profound lossThis article is more than 1 year oldSian PriorWhen other women are being feted by their progeny, no amount of positive psychology can override the sense of loss I feel I check my inbox. “Order your Mother’s Day hamper now!” the headline shouts. Delete. On my television screen someone’s trying to get me to buy their “special gifts for special mums!

ZoomZoom agrees to ‘historic’ $85m payout for graphic Zoombombing claimsA class-action lawsuit brought by users, including church groups, states they were bombarded with abusive messages and imagery The Covid-19 pandemic brought on a surge of “zoom-bombing” as hackers and pranksters crashed into virtual meetings with abusive messages and imagery. Now, Zoom has agreed to a “historic” payout of $85m as part of a class-action settlement brought by its users, including church groups who said they were left traumatized by the disruptions.

History booksReviewThe western-dominated global order is being challenged by history’s losers, in India as in Brexit Britain and Trump’s AmericaNot long after the 1989 fall of the Berlin Wall and the collapse of the Soviet Union, the neoconservative American political scientist Francis Fukuyama published The End of History and the Last Man, which declared that liberal democracy was triumphing all over the world and would become the final form of human government, bringing history to an end.

InteriorsObituaryAndrée Putman obituaryFrench interior designer whose outlook remained perpetually modernThe interior designer Andrée Putman, who has died aged 87, had an outlook of radical simplicity that made her seem perpetually modern. "I am interested," she once said, "in that family of things that will never date." Putman's own work, which included the first boutique hotel, Morgans, in New York (1984), and the Guerlain flagship store in Paris (2005), was certainly timeless.

Media MonkeyUS television industry This article is more than 9 years oldBreaking Bad stars reunite for reality show spoof Barely Legal PawnThis article is more than 9 years oldBryan Cranston and Aaron Paul team up with Veep’s Julia Louis-Dreyfus for parody of Pawn Stars for Emmys sponsor Audi Barely Legal Pawn? Right, now we have your attention ... for Breaking Bad fans suffering from withdrawal from the adventures of Walter White and Jesse Pinkman, relief is at hand in this online promo for Monday’s primetime Emmys from sponsor Audi.