© Mark Douglas/WENN Brits will be competing at the 2012 Olympics in style – fashion designer Stella McCartney has been selected to outfit the athletes at the international event. Sir Paul McCartney’s daughter has been appointed to oversee the designs... 

Philip McTaggart at a shrine to his son. Photograph: Guardian The Listening Post (World Service) describes itself as inviting “close, unhurried listening to the stories of individuals”. You might think that lots of radio does this, but it’s only when you hear the intense,... 

Get Lost, stay Lost. Photograph: c.ABC Inc/Everett / Rex Features From its brilliantly choreographed opening – a plane crashing onto a deserted beach, a survivor opening an eye, another being sucked into a screeching engine – to the final, rhapsodic payoff, Lost is a rollercoaster. The... 

Sting: more musically talented than Garry Kasparov. Photograph: Brian Rasic/Rex Features Finally, you’ll be impossibly grateful to learn that Sting has thrown you a bone, in the form of an interview with the New York Times. As is traditional in such cases, we must congratulate the interviewer...