‘That was my first elimination’: IDF snipers are blind to the humanity of their victims

International law explicitly prohibits attacking unarmed people, and people who are retrieving bodies

Crimean Quagmire: Tolstoy, Russell and the Birth of Modern Warfare – Exposing lies and cover-ups

The observations and war correspondence of an Irish journalist on one side and a subsequent giant of Russian literature are compared to interesting effect

20 great audiobooks to get stuck into this summer, from recent award-winners to all-time classics

Whether you’re crammed on a bus on the way to work or lounging with a cocktail by the pool, audiobooks are a perfect way to transport you to another place

Ken Early: David Moyes is in a lose-lose Zouma situation

West Ham boss more comfortable in not letting Twitter pick his starting team for him

David McWilliams: Tax unused land and the housing market will be sorted

Landlords will bring idle land into use pronto if they face a big cost such as tax

Son told to pay mother €85m after world’s biggest divorce case

Temur Akhmedov helped his oligarch father avoid a €520m settlement, court rules

Fintan O’Toole: To counter vaccine sceptics, we must understand them

Vaccine suspicion has a long-standing imaginative power that’s hard to overcome

The Dublin-born journalist who became a foreign correspondent in Imperial Russia

EJ Dillon counted Tolstoy and Dostoevsky among his personal aquaintances

Arms and the Man – Frank McNally on a museum dedicated to reversing the latter-day neglect of Michael Davitt

David Brooks: ‘Comments are so much more vicious than even 10 years ago’

The New York Times columnist can aggravate diehard liberals but his latest book merits a fair hearing

In a Word . . . family

Some psychologists insist 95% of families are dysfunctional, with the other 5% in denial

Xi Jinping’s power play leads from dusty caves to China supremacy

The Chinese president channels early struggles into ascent to leadership

Have a Nice Day (Hao Ji Le): ‘Reservoir Dogs’ meets ‘Loveless’

Review: One-man band Liu Jian’s three-year labour of love is a crime saga that fizzes with intellect

Don’t drink, sleep when you want, get a cat: top 10 writers’ tips on writing

Think you still have that novel in you? Take some writing tips from Leo Tolstoy, Muriel Spark, John Steinbeck and other famous authors