BoxingInterviewLennox Lewis: 'I knew I would meet Mike Tyson in the ring'Donald McRaeThe former world heavyweight champion reflects on his east London early years, sparring Tyson as a teenager, and meeting his heroes Nelson Mandela and Muhammad Ali “It was funny,” Lennox Lewis says, “because I used to go out with my son, Landon, and people would hold up their fist and shout my name. He was so confused and horrified.

MissouriMissouri executes man after 25 years on death row for murder of teenage girlRoderick Nunley confessed to killing 15-year-old Ann Harrison in 1989 but had asked supreme court to halt ‘cruel and unusual’ punishment Executions and death sentence statistics worldwide: interactiveRead moreA man who spent nearly 25 years on Missouri’s death row was executed on Tuesday for the kidnapping, rape and murder of a 15-year-old girl. Roderick Nunley, 50, became the sixth death row inmate to be put to death in Missouri this year.

Overlooked classics of American literatureFictionUnlike the TV series of the same name, this is a sadly underrated story about the men of the old WestDid the American TV producer David Milch read Pete Dexter's Deadwood before creating the 2004 HBO drama of the same name? Milch claims he didn't, but readers of Dexter's 1986 novel might find that hard to believe. Both Deadwoods begin in the frontier town of the same name, in the Dakota Territory's Black Hills, in 1876, with the shooting of the Wild West gunfighter Wild Bill Hicock, and choose to find the bulk of their narrative in the aftershocks that vibrate through the town after his murder.

TV reviewTelevision & radioReviewThis heartfelt documentary follows Luke Davies as he goes on a fascinating journey of heritage, family and love – and inadvertently takes his mum to the place he was conceived With a title like that, Stranger in My Family carries the whiff of an airport-bookshop thriller, or a true-crime podcast, or one of those Harlan Coben-type Netflix series stuffed with vaguely recognisable faces who make terrible decisions at every turn.

Dandies of DRC: sapeurs honour style ‘pope’ Stervos Niarcos – in pictures Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Share via Email Dozens of extravagantly dressed dandies, known locally as sapeurs, turned out in Kinshasa to mark the anniversary of the death of Stervos Niarcos, a pop star and one of the most famous of DRC’s dandies. Niarcos, who died in 1995, epitomised the fanatical pursuit of elegance for many in the poor central African country