A US air force MQ-9 Reaper drone sits at Kandahar airbase in Afghanistan in 2018. Photograph: Shah Marai/AFP/Getty ImagesA US air force MQ-9 Reaper drone sits at Kandahar airbase in Afghanistan in 2018. Photograph: Shah Marai/AFP/Getty ImagesUS military This article is more than 7 months oldUS air force denies running simulation in which AI drone ‘killed’ operatorThis article is more than 7 months oldDenial follows colonel saying drone used ‘highly unexpected strategies to achieve its goal’ in virtual test

Fiction in translationReviewA bleak, bold saga of a desperately poor family in 20th-century FranceBleak is the word. If EM Cioran, the great Romanian philosopher of the bleak, had been a novelist, Animalia is the kind of novel he would have produced. Published by the courageous Fitzcarraldo, this won’t make it on to a list of beach reads. But it is likely to be hailed as a modern classic. You can’t have everything.

From the Guardian archiveBoxingDempsey knocks out Brennan to retain world heavyweight crown – archive, 192016 December 1920: The US fighter delivered a knock-out-blow in the twelfth round of a bloody contest last night at Madison Square Garden Jack Dempsey, heavy weight boxing champion of the world, retained his title in a fight at New York on Tuesday with “Bill” Brennan. The contest was one of fifteen rounds, and Dempsey won with a knock-out-blow in the twelfth.

Klaus Voormann at his studio in Tutzing on Lake Starnberg, Germany, in June 2016. Photograph: Ursula Dueren/AlamyKlaus Voormann at his studio in Tutzing on Lake Starnberg, Germany, in June 2016. Photograph: Ursula Dueren/AlamyThe ObserverThe Beatles This article is more than 7 years oldInterviewHow I drew a pop art masterpiece for the Beatles – a snip at just £50This article is more than 7 years oldRobin StummerFifty years on, Klaus Voormann tells the story behind Revolver’s psychedelic coverOpening with a sharp swipe at Harold Wilson’s supertax rate for big earners, it ends half an hour later in a revolutionary mystical soundscape sculpted from LSD and dope, and drenched in technical wizardry the like of which had never been heard before.

Sexual healingRelationshipsI do not enjoy sex at all – and can only masturbate this way. Can I learn to move on? I am a 22-year-old woman and have been bothered by a sexual issue for a few years. I do not enjoy sex at all (not just penetrative sex ). Even oral sex or stimulating the clitoris does nothing for me. I have been masturbating by squeezing my thighs together since I was very young and, even today, itis the only way I can feel any pleasure sexually.