A master of the absurd and a mainstay of the New Yorker, the UK artist won global fame with his surreal greetings cards

Stand by for some flowery language, and a bit of golf, as the Masters returns this week

Take it to the max in Japan before slower pace of an early start to the cricket season

Internet entrepreneur who guarded his private life but made a fortune from others selling theirs online

Twenty-four-year-old Olympic champion leads Britons going for glory in Poland

Celebrated author and Observer columnist who helped turn Michael Caine into a sex symbol

House clearance is no longer the domain of scruffy men in beat-up vans. A new generation is venerating a previous era’s objets d’art

Gloom at Spurs could spread to an English Champions League wipeout

Distinguished US air force officer whose disclosure about the use of secret microphones in the White House brought down a president

A record number of foreign dogs at the world’s biggest dog show includes Evgenyia Samarska’s Alien Pixel

From golf and tennis to the Paralympics, this week’s sporting schedule is stacked

Formidable advocate of the NHS whose illness as a child led to a determination to join the ranks of the nurses who cared for her

Get ready for another festival on snow and ice in Milano Cortina

French musician famed for her synthesiser works that murmur ‘like a tone that never quite fades’

The Winter Olympics concludes, while Jack Draper returns to action in Dubai

‘Flawed saint’ who rose to the meaning of ‘for better or worse’ when his wife, Melanie Reid, broke her neck

Team GB are on thin ice for medals, but it’s at the T20 World Cup where the big freeze is most likely

A much-loved forager of talent and fungi, he represented writers such as Beryl Bainbridge and Dick Francis

Key contests in rugby and cricket will heat up the rivalry, but there’s hope on the ice for Team GB golds

The iconoclastic historian recast Scott of the Antarctic as a tragic failure in the race to the South Pole