The baby boomers are still bopping and why charging towards an Irish cliff face with a belly full of fortified wine may not make for a relaxing weekend.

Take a look at these and our selection of other great feature stories scoured from across the web this week.

They've had their backs broken, hips cracked and knees popped in weather that "you wouldn't put a duck out in" but still these Irish lads remain married to the sea.

This is what happened when reporter Conor Creighton surfed Storm Frank with them.

Betting worth billions. Elite players. Violent threats. Covert messages with Sicilian gamblers, and suspicious matches at Wimbledon.

Leaked files expose match-fixing evidence that tennis authorities have kept secret for years.

The post war baby boomers are all grown up, but here's a time hop back to the cute photos of all those little bundles who grew up in a world of Elvis, Chuck Berry and avocado-coloured bathroom suites.

Tyra Patterson says she was an innocent teenage bystander who ran away from a murder.

Prosecutors say she was party to a killing.

In the first chapter of a Guardian special report, explore how a young woman from poverty-stricken Ohio fell victim to America’s addiction to incarceration – and what might still set her free.

Mike Mellia is a fan of the ridiculous - which is why he took to Instagram in an act of irony to bombard his colleagues with a barrage of outrageous selfies.

This is what happens when fashion meets the ridiculous and brilliance occurs.

Attracted to the idea that she had a darker, wilder side, author Amy Liptrot drank every night through her 20s.

But it was the landscape of her childhood island home that enabled her to start her journey to recovery.

The story of Litvinenko, the former Russian spy who was poisoned with a cup of tea in a London hotel has captured many.

Working with Scotland Yard detectives, as he lay dying, he traced the lethal substance to a former comrade in the Russian secret service.

Rising 20,310 feet above sea level, North America’s tallest peak is a stunning sight.

The Alaskan mountain is a big part of the legend and lore of the Athabaskan-speaking people who gave it the name Denali, meaning Tall One - home to wild wolf packs, grizzlies and the occasional squirrel.

Thirty years ago this weekend, Rupert Murdoch's secret plans came to light - he moved his papers to Wapping, fired anyone who refused to work with his new technology and began a bitter year-long dispute with the print unions.

Donald Macintyre, then at The Times, reflects on the moment that brought about one of the biggest changes in newspaper history.

What would it be like to take a journey into the mind of the world's most famous physicist?

To celebrate Professor Stephen Hawking's Radio 4 Reith Lecture on Black Holes, Aardman Studios have created a short animation to explore the love of physics and astronomy that have brought the stars a little bit closer to us all.