The kindness of strangers: alone in the crowd at Glastonbury, a stranger hugged me tight while I cried about my dead dad

As I sobbed to U2, she would hug me tighter as we swayed to the music

My favourite family photo: ‘This is a happy picture

The snapshot was taken just months after I lost my mum, and not everyone in it is still with us. But it is an image of survival, capturing the aftermath of grief and the beforemath of future losses

Carrie Coons and Tracy Letts on their joint love for, and beyond, the theater

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Unexpected twist in Texas cold case murder probe: Victim was a bridesmaid in killer's wedding

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Watched, scared and trapped in an Australian visa nightmare, Kiran is one of India’s ‘abandoned brides’

Kiran was left with her in-laws in a Indian village thousands of kilometres from her husband in Brisbane – but the CCTV was always watching her

Blind date: ‘The register office was next door … but we opted for the pub and more drinks’

Dara, 24, a trainee accountant, meets Alexia, 24, a healthcare worker