Notes & TheoriesCancer researchHoney treatment amounts to sweet nothingA "new hope" for cancer sufferers or a jar of exorbitantly expensive honey? How the makers of Life Mel prey on the fear and desperation of patientsPhotograph: Rex Features Sex sells. But fear, pain and desperation sell even more effectively. This press release from the creators of Life Mel honey is an object lesson in that despicable dark art. Their target is cancer patients struggling to deal with the horrible side-effects of their treatment:

CountryObituaryKenny Rogers obituaryOne of the great American country singers who had hits with The Gambler, Lucille and Islands in the StreamKenny Rogers, who has died aged 81, was a prolific hit-maker from the late 1960s into the 80s, and with songs such as Lucille, The Gambler and Coward of the County helped to create a bestselling crossover of pop and country material. “I did songs that were not country but were more pop,” he said in 2016.

Technology This article is more than 9 years oldSnapchat videos and pictures stored on a third-party website posted onlineThis article is more than 9 years oldImages from up to 200,000 teenagers leaked on to internet after users lured into saving images on Snapsaved.com Snapchat leaked pics came from Snapsaved.com, says researcher Videos and pictures of as many as 200,000 teenagers posted via the Snapchat service and stored on a third-party website have been put online, apparently by the same people who were behind the posting of nude celebrity photos in August.

The ObserverRefereesYellow cards, VAR and no controversy: Rebecca Welch makes history as first female Premier League refereeThere were some boos and half-hearted chants, but she maintained quiet and calm authority when she took charge in Fulham v Burnley It’s said that the mark of a good performance for a football referee is not being noticed. That was always going to be a tall order for Rebecca Welch, who on Saturday became the first woman to referee a Premier League match in Fulham’s 2-0 home defeat by Burnley.

December 14 2003: Key images of the arrest of the former Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein. Saddam's new look Image of captured former Iraqi leader Saddam Hussein displayed at a news conference in Baghdad. 15.12.03: Saddam the prisoner More pictures from the Iraq conflict  Going underground In a small orange grove on a farm near the village of Adwar, US soldiers pulled back a tarpaulin to discover the entrance to Saddam Hussein's bolthole.