Germany This article is more than 10 years oldApfelkind cafe owner wins trademark battle with AppleThis article is more than 10 years oldUS firm withdraws objection to Bonn cafe's trademark application in Germany after two-year legal correspondenceIt is only a small cafe in the centre of a small German city, but its owner has succeeded where the Beatles failed and won a legal standoff with the US computer giant Apple.

Elon Musk This article is more than 1 year oldElon Musk’s father says he isn’t proud of his sonThis article is more than 1 year oldWhen asked if he’s proud of his son’s accomplishments, Errol Musk says: ‘No … we are a family that have been doing a lot of things’ The father of Elon Musk said during an interview that he isn’t proud of his billionaire son, saying that Elon is unhappy with his own career progress.

Fran Lebowitz suffers from ‘excessive reverence for the written word’. Photograph: Adrienne GrunwaldFran Lebowitz suffers from ‘excessive reverence for the written word’. Photograph: Adrienne GrunwaldEssaysInterviewFran Lebowitz: ‘If people disagree with me, so what?’Hadley FreemanWith a hit Netflix series and The Fran Lebowitz Reader now published in the UK, the American wit talks about failing to write, her dislike of Andy Warhol and her best friend Toni Morrison Fran Lebowitz is a famous writer who famously doesn’t write.

‘I guess it’s hardly surprising that a nation that can’t get people to not stomp into a home with shoes on also can’t get half of its population to mask up during a pandemic that’s killed nearly a million Americans and counting.’ Photograph: Richard Newstead/Getty Images‘I guess it’s hardly surprising that a nation that can’t get people to not stomp into a home with shoes on also can’t get half of its population to mask up during a pandemic that’s killed nearly a million Americans and counting.

TheatreReviewHalf Moon theatre, London Amal Khalidi and Tatenda Naomi Matsvai’s touring play for over-13s evokes two friends’ passions and pressures ‘Hot orange” is the name given to a basketball in this impressive writing debut for young audiences by Amal Khalidi and Tatenda Naomi Matsvai. The title captures the poetic glow of their hourlong two-hander. It conjures, too, the rush of first love, the burn of inherited shame and the lively pace of a sensitive play about a friendship that flickers into something else before being extinguished.

PoliticsObituaryLord HansonWheeler-dealer who rose to greater fortune in the Thatcher yearsLord Hanson, who has died aged 82 of cancer, was the archetypal corporate raider of the 1980s. With his partner Gordon White (obituary, August 25, 1995), he built a transatlantic corporate empire through a series of aggressive takeovers. He embodied the kind of brash business success, but also the personal charm, admired by Margaret Thatcher. Hanson was made a life peer by Thatcher in 1983, and the admiration was mutual: Hanson gave millions of pounds of his own and his company's money to the Conservative cause.

FranceThe collaborator's pitiless endOne man's vengeance has wrecked the chances of trying a wartime French police chief responsible for deporting Jews, reports Paul Webster in ParisRene Bousquet, the police chief responsible for the mass deportation of Jews from occupied wartime France, was shot dead in Paris yesterday. A man was arrested after calling in television crews to film a confession. Mr Bousque , aged 84, a former senior civil servant and retired businessman, was hit by four bullets when he answered the door to his apartment at 8.

Canvey Island, 2011. Photograph: Peter Macdiarmid/GettyFrom Loadsamoney and ‘Basildon man’ to Towie and Brexit – Essex has long been held up as both the authentic England and the crudest, stupidest symbol of Englishness. by Tim BurrowsAs a child growing up in the 80s and 90s in Southend, a sprawling seaside town in south-east Essex, I noticed that people on TV often laughed at the very word Essex. Some years later, in 2016, my wife, Hayley, crossed the border into Albania from Montenegro while travelling with an old friend who, like us, grew up in the county.

Top 10sFictionFrom Elena Ferrante to Taffy Brodesser-Akner, writers have captured the pressures that being a mother can inflict on marriage and on the creative self What surprised me most when I became a mother was how unfeasibly demanding the job was. This work was 24/7, three six five, and nobody even acknowledged that it was work, nor that mothers were doing it, that they were doing all of it, all of the time.

FBI issued a public warning about 764 and the advisory is the first formal mention of the group by any law enforcement. Photograph: ajijchan/Getty Images/iStockphotoFBI issued a public warning about 764 and the advisory is the first formal mention of the group by any law enforcement. Photograph: ajijchan/Getty Images/iStockphotoNew YorkAngel Almeida’s alarming social media posts led authorities to 764, a group that abuses minors and circulates violent videos An arrest on gun possession charges in Queens, New York, in November 2021 has led the Federal Bureau of Investigation to a pedophilic, Satanist extortion cult that has victimized dozens if not hundreds of minors, according to law enforcement documents, court records and sources with knowledge of the investigation.