Children's booksBooksGone by Michael Grant - review'If people with magical powers fighting over a town with lots of blood and a few Coates mixed in sounds like your cup of tea, then give this book a go'Gone is really good! It's really interesting and it had a unexpected plot twist! I really enjoyed it and it kept me reading! It's about a boy called Sam Temple. When all people over the age of 14 disappears everyone turns to him to be their leader and he doesn't know what to do, but when all the bullies start to take over the town he leaps into action to help the town of Perdido Beach and all the people in it.

Movies This article is more than 19 years oldIn brief: stars attend Reeve memorialThis article is more than 19 years oldMore than 900 people attended a memorial service last Friday for former Superman actor and stem cell research activist Christopher Reeve, who died three weeks ago. Guests included Teresa Heinz Kerry, wife of Democratic presidential candidate John Kerry; actors Michael J Fox, Laura Linney, Mary Tyler Moore, Kim Cattrall and Susan Sarandon; and TV chat show host Larry King.

FilmInterviewKristin Scott Thomas: 'I cannot cope with another film'Decca AitkenheadShe's the go-to actor for elegant despair – but after 20 years, Kristin Scott Thomas is done with movies. She talks shambolic film sets, French mistresses and the joys of saying nonKristin Scott Thomas has had enough. She has been working flat out for 30 years, and made 65 films: having lived in Paris since the age of 19, she effectively has two careers, one in English and one in French.

Adult male scarlet-headed blackbird, Amblyramphus holosericeus (protonym, Xanthornus holosericeus), also known as the orange-headed blackbird or as the scarlet-headed marshbird, photographed on the Pantanal Conservation Area in the state of Mato Grosso in Brazil. Image: Nick Athanas/Tropical Birding (with permission) [velociraptorize]. Question: This lovely Brazilian mystery bird should remind you of another species that is a common migrant in North America. What are these "twin" species and how can you distinguish between them?

UK news This article is more than 9 months oldNigerian politician, wife, and a doctor guilty of organ trafficking to UKThis article is more than 9 months oldThree convicted of conspiring to exploit a man for his kidney in first verdict of its kind under Modern Slavery Act Trail exposes UK’s vulnerability to organ harvesting A senior Nigerian politician, his wife, and a doctor have been convicted of organ trafficking, in the first verdict of its kind under the Modern Slavery Act.