Hoping for better roles … Dev Patel in M Night Shyamalan’s The Last Airbender. Photograph: Zade Rosenthal His role as a young “chai-wallah” in the Oscar-winning film Slumdog Millionaire catapulted him into the limelight, but Dev Patel has said he struggled to find work... 

German locum Daniel Ubani killed 70-year-old David Gray in 2008 with an accidental overdose of diamorphine. Photograph: PA Powerful painkillers such as morphine, diamorphine, (a pharmaceutical form of heroin), and methadone can be wonderful drugs. Diamorphine can relieve the agony of those... 

City workers pictured in central London. Photograph: Shaun Curry/AFP/Getty Images Before the election, George Osborne avoided being photographed in posh clothes for fear of pandering to popular caricatures of the over-privileged Tory boy. But within weeks of becoming chancellor he had to deliver... 

Clockwise from left: Julie Myerson, Lethal Bizzle, Grayson Perry, Maggi Hambling, Sara Cox. Photograph: Composite Stephen Fry Writer, actor They were monstrous, magnificent, traumatic, explosive, lyrical, emotionally sodden, eternal, shameful and fantastically alive. What I wish I’d...