Trial by cobbles could further unsettle Tour de France contenders who are already battered and bruised So, after two quiet, uneventful days of the 2010 Tour de France, the riders head for the cobbles. With almost all the major contenders nursing bumps and scrapes, some more serious than others, the last thing any of them wants to do today is ride across nine miles of bone-jarring pavé .

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Riders prepare for bump and grind

The alleged spy has the same name as me. So suddenly I am very popular on Facebook Since last Wednesday morning I’ve been battling to prove who I am.

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I’m Anna Chapman – but I’m no Russian spy

It started out as a simple fishing trip in search of the elusive Basque trout, but this ancient corner of southwest France yielded up a far richer catch There’s an old Basque saying: “To know how to eat is to know enough.” Pierre Oteiza, a Basque farmer and artisan producer in the verdant Vallée des Aldudes, 65km southeast of Biarritz, would appear to embody this philosophy. He smiled, and swept his hand over the fruits of his labour – this is all you need to know, he seemed to be saying – “Bon appétit.” The table in his farm shop was laden with platters of sliced saucisson and jambon, blood sausage and chorizo. There were terrines of pig’s ear, tongue, and pots of pork pâté with baskets of freshly baked bread.

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A Basque banquet

Round things off with Delia’s vanilla cream terrine, Nigella’s cheesecake in a glass and Marcus Wareing’s gin and tonic granite, plus a whole lot more besides including some wine recommendations from Victoria Moore Nigella Lawson: Cheesecake in a glass This is the perfect end to a midweek dinner party, the kind you didn’t know you were giving until presented with a guest list mid-afternoon.

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Tony Naylor samples Bath’s tastiest meals for under a tenner ahead of this weekend’s food festival Food blog: what do you make of our top 10?

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Bath’s top 10 budget eats

The Guardian’s new Jerusalem correspondent gives her first impressions of the bitterly divided yet beautiful city There is a point on a hill looking out over Jerusalem , right on the 1948 armistice line, known as the Promenade, where both Jewish and Arab families can be found picnicking in the warmth of the late afternoon sun. It’s a good spot. Straight ahead is the Old City, the honey stones of its walls absorbing and reflecting the sun’s rays.

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Jerusalem, my new home

Gail Dines, the author of an explosive new book about the sex industry, on why pornography has never been a greater threat to our relationships The last time I saw Gail Dines speak, at a conference in Boston, she moved the audience to tears with her description of the problems caused by pornography, and provoked laughter with her sharp observations about pornographers themselves. Activists in the audience were newly inspired, and men at the event – many of whom had never viewed pornography as a problem before – queued up afterwards to pledge their support. The scene highlighted Dines’s explosive charisma and the fact that, since the death of Andrea Dworkin, she has risen to that most difficult and interesting of public roles: the world’s leading anti-pornography campaigner

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Where the Disney-owned studio leads, the rest of Hollywood follows.

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How Pixar changed the face of cinema

Hollywood wrangle as star’s ex-wife demands share of Wall Street 2 profits One of the trickiest legal debates in Hollywood history has been triggered by Michael Douglas’s ex-wife Diandra. She divorced him in 2000, on the grounds of his infidelity, with a reported $45m (£30m) payoff. Yet Diandra is now suing for a share in Douglas’s profits from Wall Street 2, on the basis that the original settlement gave her a share of future exploitation of any movies he made during the marriage, including any “spin-off”.

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Wall Street 2: sequel or spin-off?

In an extract from her new book, Zoe Williams tries to make sense of the bewildering world of baby-rearing It’s a funny old business, having a baby. Apart from the major bafflement that you now have a baby, you are suddenly embroiled in the most binary arguments: to