Classical musicReviewHackmann/Boggess/Sinfonia of London/Wilson (Chandos, two CDs) John Wilson’s scrupulously prepared recording gives us exactly what the audience would have heard on the musical’s opening night in New York in 1943 John Wilson started off as a conductor of musical theatre, and made his name in concert performances of Broadway shows. After relaunching the hand-picked Sinfonia of London in 2018 he has gone on to success in a much wider repertoire, but as this recording of Richard Rodgers and Oscar Hammerstein II’s Oklahoma!

BullfightingCape fear Bullfighter turns tail and runs'I decided that was it. Let somebody else who has the ability and the courage take the opportunity,' said Christian HernandezA young bullfighter in Mexico City leapt head first out of the ring at the beginning of a fight after seeing the bull charge - and was arrested for it APChristian Hernandez had fantasised about becoming a celebrated bullfighter since he was a child. Now the 22-year-old has gone down in bullfighting history not for his elegant moves, but for running away from the bull in Mexico's most famous arena.

The ObserverFashionAhead of London fashion week, the gender-fluid designer talks about glue guns, pop stars and courting controversy in Vogue Before anyone had heard of the designer Harris Reed, they had seen his suit in Vogue. Or was it a dress? A tailored suit with peak shoulders attached to a hoop-skirt draped in tulle and hot pink satin garlands, it was worn in the magazine’s December issue not by a Hollywood starlet, but by a popstar: Harry Styles.

World dispatchWorld newsGore: behind the beardNot for over a century has a US president had fuzz on his face. Julian Borger decodes the former vice-president's new lookThe president-in-exile returned to his ungrateful nation this week. Al Gore, the man who won half a million more votes than the current White House occupant, came back from six weeks in Europe for a couple of discreet appearances in Tennessee, his home state which so cruelly spurned him at the polls.

James Franco This article is more than 2 years oldJames Franco admits sleeping with students and says he had sex addictionThis article is more than 2 years oldActor gives first extended comments about accusations that came nearly four years ago James Franco has acknowledged sleeping with students of an acting school he previously ran, saying he struggled with a sex addiction and has been working to improve his behavior in recent years.